April 20 - I visited Penn, Michigan and Berkeley. While I liked Berkeley (Penn was okay), I fell in love with Michigan. Luckily it's also my best option from a financial standpoint as well. I've sent in a deposit and plan to attend!
As a side-note, I got waitlisted at CLS yesterday, and withdrew. Still waiting to hear from NYU, but my status checker finally changed to DLS today, so I should hear about a waitlist shortly. As my cycle wraps up, the main reflection I'm left with is that I ended up choosing the school that was staring me right in the face since day one - Michigan was the first school to admit me, the first to offer me a scholarship, and the only school that would not have required me to fill out a FAFSA and Need Access (since their scholarships don't take need into account). In other words, I would have saved myself a lot of worry and effort if I'd committed to Michigan sooner. Not that I exactly regret it, but if was pretty stressful. And, having learned all I have about Michigan, I'm not sure that I would have gone anywhere else, even if I hadn't been waitlisted at Columbia, Chicago and NYU. All in all, it was a typical cycle in terms of my admissions and waitlists, but I fared better than I had expected in terms of scholarship (from Michigan - not from the other schools I got money from). So, it was a huge success. :)
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Feb 16 - In at Berkeley through the first Committee Review batch! Their ASD is the same date as Cornell's... decisions, decisions...
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Feb 3 - I got the Committee Review email from Berkeley about a week ago. Sadly, I've begun to lose interest :( If I am accepted and can scrape together the money to visit for ASW, I will definitely put a good faith effort into considering them.
Yesterday evening got a "hold" email from Columbia. Still trying to figure out what it means, but overall it is probably the best scenario I could have hoped for.
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Jan 21 - Accepted at Penn by phone! (I missed the call and got a nice voicemail.) Excited to visit. I am also starting to come to terms with the fact that I am/will be waitlisted at NYU, and that Columbia will almost certainly be a waitlist or reject. That would leave just Boalt, where I am probably headed for committee review (and University of Washington, who seems to have forgotten about me). At this point, I'm pretty much just eager to know what my final list of options is.
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Jan 10 - Waitlisted at Chicago amid a huge storm of accept, reject and waitlist emails. It's disappointing but not really surprising. I'm hoping that it has a little something to do with the Rubensteins but so many people with better numbers than I were WLed that, if anyone comes off the waitlist, I don't think it will be me. I'm hoping this doesn't spell certain doom for me at CLS and NYU, but at the same time I won't be crushed if it does.
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Dec 30 - Scholarship letter from Michigan... hard to turn down $54K at such a great school.
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12-13-10 - Heard from Georgetown (first I got into the Admitted Students Site, then I got letter on Dec 3) and WUSTL (email on the 24th) in the last few weeks. Then today I heard back from Cornell and Wisconsin (both email)! I feel very grateful to be 5 for 5 so far, but I recognize that the hard times are ahead. Then again, at this point I have a number of offers that I would be happy to accept, so my cycle is basically a success no matter what :)
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11/23/2010 - In at Michigan! My first acceptance... it's a huge relief.
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Decent LORS but nothing extraordinary, I think. In my first year out of UG, I took a class at a non-degree-granting graduate institution and got an F - I've written an addendum and am unsure how it will affect my cycle.
My LSAT scores are from prior years, and I received my fee waivers back then. Some schools agreed to extend my fee waivers to this cycle, while others did not. But for the purposes of presenting the information here, I have shown all fee waivers I got, whether they were extended to this cycle or not.
Congrats! Please withdraw from Berkeley, Cornell soon, if you haven't already done so. THANKS!!!