joshualyman (2022-2023)

My decision is more or less set in stone, so here are my EC's.

President of College Republicans

Presented Philosophy Paper at National Conference, also was topic of my PS

Worked 20+ Hours Per Week in UG

Resident Assistant

2 Years WE at DC firm

Strong letters of rec - one from founding partner at firm, one from professor who oversaw my independent study

That is about all, I am pretty average - as my LSAT score indicates.

So far acceptances from the following:

WCL - priority mail package
UMD - priority mail package
Richmond - phone call from dean of admissions
Catholic - email, on Christmas eve, no less.
GWU - Email accepting me to the part time division. Totally not expecting that!

12/30/07 - After much internal debate, I withdrew from GMU. Since the GW acceptance, I did not want to mess around with getting locked into ED at a worse school. So, for now, I am attending GW unless, of course, UVA comes calling. Total pipe-dream, I know, but, hey, I thought GW was too.

1/2/07 - Email from GMU confirming my withdrawal.

1/4/08 - Received acceptance packet from GWU. Honestly, I am psyched about this school.

1/15/08 - Email from Catholic offering me a Faculty Merit Scholarship in the amount of 15k per year w/ top 25% requirement. Exciting!

1/22/08 - Well, I got the status update email from UVA. A decision has been made on my application. I fully expect a rejection, but here's to hoping. Hey, at least I will know where I am going to law school in the next few days.

1/24/08 - Oh well, first rejection from UVA. Can't be too disappointed considering it was a super-reach.

1/30 - Decided to withdraw my name from consideration at Catholic and Richmond. Both schools were, what I like to call, "disaster schools." That is, I would have attended them if some disaster or another befell my other applications and I did not get accepted. I appreciate the $ from Catholic, but GW is very hard to turn down. American and UMD are still in the running for financial leverage reasons.

2/21/07 There really is no way that I am not going to GWU, so I have changed its status to Attending, but am still waiting on W&L and want to peek at financial aid packages from American and UMD.

3/28/2008 - I have to say that I am psyched that the rankings came out and GW is up two spots.

4/1/08 - WD from W&L today. Honestly, I didn't particularly want to attend, but not hearing a peep from them about my application for over 5 months really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.