moot (2022-2023)

Best of luck to you with Boalt...we all can dream :)

Thanks for the words of encouragement. I really hope to get into GW (and I've prayed on like 4836 stars already..haha) However, American sounds really fun right now also. I guess I'll just have to keep waiting and pulling out my hair. You have a great lsat score and top gpa so you'll be getting a lot more acceptances, no doubt!

Thanks a lot. It's a ton of fun! Where do you plan on going? A.Arbor? pretty liberal town, I live about 20 minutes from there and work at U-M soccer camps for four weeks in the summer...that's about all the A.Arbor I can take.

Berkeley, D.C., Chicago, and A.Arbor are all pretty liberal I hear :) I should fit right in with the brand new Hybrid Escape my mom will buy me for graduation. She, of course, does not know this yet.

and enjoy your choice...your numbers are impressive. Have a blast!

I am suprised at the waitlist from GW as well, trust me. Although I will be VERY suprised if I don't get in off the waitlist. Hopefully you'll have better luck, because at this point it really seems like an arbitrary system of admittance.

Yale sux.

My GW was kind of late. I'm hoping that doesn't make a huge difference, but, who knows. And thanks for the encouraging Yale Sux. :)

I've written fiction for 15 years and received about 100 rejections for every accepted story, so applying to law school has been a treat. Law school now b/c the work I do for a nonprofit is one step away from law work. Plus, frankly, I'm gonna start a family and need more money and want to do something more interesting. If BU offers me a dime in scholarship money, I am going there. Good luck with your apps.

I bet you get in. They love your number combo.

I've read Yale gives rejections via plain white envelopes with no distinguishing marks. If not for the application fee, I would have applied, copied the rejection, and used it for stationary. Maybe next year.

Regardles, Yale still sux.

Yale is merely the epitome of this entire system. They happen to be the top school; they happen to employ a wholly unpredictable selection criteria; they happen to be one of the many schools where your class schedule will include Torts, Constitutional Law, and Watching Your Back; and, thus, they happen to be the recipients of my disdain. I'm sure you could say the same about any of the trinity - I'm sure you could even find examples of non-descript rejection letters and backstabbing from Bassackwards University but Yale, above and beyond all others, embodies this system that is the current target of my criticisms. Oh, and as for waiting for the phone rather than the mail: I'm sure you will find numerous acceptances across this forum that came in the form of snail mail. And, unless you applied only to Yale, the need to thumb through the post for acceptances still exists. Consequently, when you open a non-descript white envelope and find a rejection from the top school in the nation, you will be unprepared for it. The least, the very least, they could do is use their letterhead so that you know, "if I didn't get the call yet, this is probably a rejection." Oh, and, Yale Sux :)

Thanks for the congrats on UCLA & Georgetown. Moreover, your narative on law school rankings is simply a masterpiece. Frankly, I don't think you have too much to worry about. You have a really good shot at UCLA and USC and not an impossible shot at G-town. Good luck! As far as my Yale app goes, I had some extra anthrax left over from the big scare that I needed to get rid of. Excellent use of it if I must say.

... for your post on my board. It's great to hear some encouragement in this frustrating process. Oh, and ... sorry ... but Yale doesn't suck :). I'll let you know if I change my mind when I get a decision.

Again, folks, Yale merely serves as a nice face to take jabs at. I am not attacking Yale alone, but rather the system which Yale exemplifies. I consider it rather naive to believe that Yale somehow escapes the law school backstabbing. Certainly, Yale graduates will get good jobs but even among these good jobs there exists a hierarchy. Do you really think #1 and #200 will go onto the same job? Of course not. For that matter, will #1 and #10 get the same jobs? No. Maybe Im thinking of Harvard? Of course Im thinking of Harvard! But not at the exclusion of Yale or most other schools out there. Perhaps my purpose in the original biographical posting left my purpose unclear. This is a plea. A plea to the Yalees, to the Harvardites, and, yes, to the denizens of Florida Coastal prove me wrong. Start by foregoing the urge to slip an Ex-Lax in the coffee of the student just ahead of you on the day of finals. Then, graduate, become influential members of the Bar, and change this system. Oh, and I must not forget, / Yale Sux.

you're a rockstar! Oh, and guess what law school sux?

Thanks for the kind comments. Good luck with your apps! Esp. Berkeley! I know you'll end up somewhere great. You probably want to get out of Florida, but UF has a great rep, and if that's your safety net right now, you're in good shape. If you're worried about nasty competition, I keep hearing that Georgetown is cut-throat... and that GMU is way under-rated.

Thanks for the support! We may have the same index, but you have a higher gpa and the word on the street is that Boalt prefers gpa to lsat. Best of luck :-)

i hope we both get into boalt! my first choice school!!

Thank you very much for the congrats. And, I understand your criticism of the system. I have a friend in 1st year at Yale right now, and she would not take your comments in a negative light I am sure. After all, people should try to be more collaborative and less competitive in the collegiate atmosphere (especially at the graduate level where everybody has positioned his or herself to have a life of comfort regardless of their school or rank). Congrats on Florida and all the best on the rest of your applications.

You ready? I sure am. First, avoid the current Boalt dinglerberry that's around this week. Let me know how it turns out, and if not, I'll see ya at UF in the Fall!

Hey moot, thanks for the additional congrats. I left an answer to your inquiry on my page. At this time, I am similarly waiting on 10 schools. So fingers crossed for us both. Take Care.

for the optimistic words... I appreciate the encouragement. :-)

for the optimistic words... I appreciate the encouragement. :-)

i didn't make it into gw afterall...thanks though.

Hey thanks for all the encouragement! I am really happy to be going to Boston C actually, so I am not longer fretting about law school (well, just a little.) I feel that unless a miracle happens, BC is where I am going to go, and that is very very fine by me. I've already got the mentality that I am going there. Okay, well that's for all the support again, and eh, as far as URM status goes, I think asian male is about equal to white male these days.

Another acceptance!!! It was only a matter of time. And many more to come, no doubt. Congrats on GMU, moot.

UF's maximum merit scholarship is $4K/yr, so don't fret about not getting it. Money's money, but $4K isn't a huge deal, considering UF's low tuition.

Cry me a river... Nice novel, jackass

Good one, moot.

Useless? Clue Phone? Nice Novel? Thanks for the comments! Have a nice day. And, did I mention? / YALE SUX. // If this whole law school thing flounders, I wonder if I can be Pope. / Moot

Thanks for the post. I visited Northwestern a while back, and I agree - it felt snobby. Nonetheless, it's still my top choice. But, I'd be happy with Minnesota too. Best of luck on your pending apps! I'll be watching you. ; )

BTW - Ann Coulter went to Michigan for her JD, strangely enough.

I don't know. What would you do with my results?

Please, please read the explanation. Okay, so you think Yale Rocks. Why? Although I suppose I knew by referencing Yale, rather than "The-practice-of-determining-someone's-future-merely-by-a-single-score-on-a-single-test Sux!" would undoubtedly elicit far morefeedback, I also expected you bright and talented Yaleins to be able to read a few dozen words to find my true meaning. / Matt // My account for the 2005-2006 cycle.