kstoiatosomewhere (2022-2023)

Legal organization summer intern
On-campus job (fall '05 and '06-'07)
Honors society president
Study Abroad (spring '06)
Various campus committees
Student Senate
Ultimate Frisbee
Various volunteer activities

4/27: Got my umich email address. Now it seems official.

4/23: DECISION MADE! I'M GOING TO MICHIGAN!

4/19: Decision date moving to Monday. This week has sucked.

4/15: Liked Berkeley. Rats. Supposed to call Michigan tomorrow about $ inquiry.

4/12: After travel disasters, I am in Berkeley. The law school is almost as ugly as rumored, but campus is pretty in general, Berkeley seems like a cool town, and the people I've met so far are nice. Tomorrow is the official admit day program.

4/10: Received merit financial aid info. from NYU: $25,000 total. Faxing Berkeley matching scholarship program form today and they said they'd try to give me an answer by April 19th.

4/9: Even though I was just informed of a big email whoopsy I made, I'm leaning strongly towards Penn today.

Excited to go to Berkeley on Wednesday. Although now I'm feeling a little hung up on the fact that 70% of last year's alums work on the Pacific Coast...

4/8: Marked some official withdrawls. Hopefully these will open up space and $ for others!

4/4: Headed to Chicago today. I'll be touring U. of Chicago tomorrow. Then next Wednesday I head to Berkeley for my final law school visit.

UPDATE: Offered Levy Scholarship at Penn. I'm amazed. And even more confused decision wise.

4/1: Scholarship offer from UVA waiting in my mailbox. Most likely not enough to compell me to choose UVA over Michigan offering a similar amount. Going to go visit Chicago on Thursday. Anxiously awaiting Penn's decision on the Levy scholarship. As much as I liked Columbia and NYU, something in my gut tells me my final decision will come down to Michigan and Penn (and maybe Berkeley, but I haven't been there yet).

3/29: Liked Columbia as well. Still very confused about everything. NYC is pretty amazing.

3/26: Liked NYU today. But I'm not a Furman finalist (lady in admissions said they sent out all letters last week), so that likely means no $ from NYU. If I get the awesome scholarship I was invited to apply for at Penn, I really can't see what difference 2 ranking spots really means. Although some students at NYU tried to convince me there's a big difference in the perception of top 5 schools vs. top 10 schools.

3/24: Really liked Penn. Now it's Michigan and Penn at the top of the pack of places I've visited. Changing ranks to reflect only places that I've visited and places I plan on withdrawing from.

3/21: George Washington also so-so. Oh, and I realized today that the class I sat in on yesterday at Georgetown was taught by the author of the Patriot Act. *Add your own thoughts here*

3/20: Liked Virginia a lot. Georgetown just so-so.

3/16: Spring break starts today. In the next two weeks, I will be visiting Virginia, Georgetown, GW, Penn (admitted students day), NYU, and Columbia (admitted students day). Crazy.

3/13: Need to dig out all of my school reply forms. I think I have 3 (possibly 4) places I can now cross off my list. At least that's a start.
I wish Harvard would just go ahead and reject me so that I'd have all my decisions in.

3/10: Loving Michigan madly.
Got an email invite to apply for the Levy Scholars Program at Penn. Exciting!

3/6: Leaving tomorrow afternoon for Michigan. Going to the official admitted students programming on Th, Fri, Sat morning. Also meeting with someone in another dept. to talk about joint-degree opportunities.

Emailed NYU to see if they could tell me when all Furman finalist notifications would be sent out. I'm getting impatient. I want all the information from all schools so I can start processing it!

3/2: "Alternate" for Georgetown Dean's Scholarship (I'll get a final answer by 4/9). Virginia said they'll tell scholarship amts. by March 31st.

3/1: Labeled my current choices in clumps (without regard to $, which will probably play a factor, and before visits). I also reserve the right to change on a whim.
Hoping to hear about scholarships from Georgetown and Virginia this week.

2/22: Chicago just called...I'm in!
Heard last week from Georgetown that I'm a finalist for their Dean's Scholar scholarship and Wash U is considering me for a scholarship as well. Also got an email last week or the week before about Berkeley's "matching" scholarship application. Intriguing.

Scholarship offers are for the 3-year total amount (listing merit scholarships only)