power (2022-2023)

Best of luck, seeing you get in to Northwestern would be worth any rejection from them I'll get.

Your suggestion for LSAT reform is ill-timed; given the hand surgery I had a month ago (and the one I'm facing in a couple of months), I probably wouldn't be admitted anywhere. :] What's a "row-shift," and why would it affect your LSAT score? Sounds like some newfangled automatic transmission. BTW, the plural of "addendum" is "addenda." Good luck...

Yeah being a wildcard sucks though. I am broke from applying to all those schools since I have NO CLUE who will take me (if anyone!).

LouisevilleSlugga, A row-shift is what happens when you skip a question without realizing it, causing every subsequent answer after the skipped question to be misaligned with its respective questions (i.e. your answer for #20 actually corresponds to question #19, etc.) It's a worst-case-scenario sort of thing but I happen to specialize in worst-case scenarios. Grammer rule duly noted and entry edited; incidentally what happened to your hand(s)? Just curious.

greeneggs, you may be on to something. That would be a truly great topic for a personal statement. "Overcoming a Small Wang" to play the victim-card, or more likely, "Me and My Enormous Penis," which is more apt and to the point, since that's all we're doing on this site, no? ;)

bluetooth, are you fucking daft? I'm Asian. Of course I have extremely small eyes. :-D

burned down my country. ah, who cares... respect the 2nd LSAT. btw, how long was your explanation of criminal charges?

moskvich78, How ya doing, always nice to see another lsat/gpa splitter ;) I am pretty much a walking magnet for trouble, so I was accused of many things that I had not done. Oddly enough, for the things that I *had* done, I was never accused of anything. Interestingly enough, the FBI recruited me a year ago and I went through the entire background check. I came out clean, so I assumed that if my checkered history was good enough for the FBI, it was good enough for any law school. So I simply did not explain anything at all. :-D p.s. the ethnicity has been changed to reflect your nationalistic preferences.

I love getting to know the applicant pool as more than "the other" that's out to take my seat at a given school. There are quite a few amazing people here, plenty of average blokes, and a few human cloacas that can yield some schadenfreude. And it's just great to be able to watch how other splitters doeven though each one's acceptances must be based on subjective evaluation of their individual circumstances and really can't be compared. I get the impression that your personal statements were a little less ... stilted than mine.

underwhelm (great username, btw) , I agree that LSN is a great resource for splitters. When I went to the pre-law center at my university, the lady essentially gave me a creepy you-are-doomed look and said, "You might as well apply to the top 50," which isn't the most encouraging advice. At the same time, I have to wonder what it is about the pre-law atmosphere that leads people to post scores everywhere. Being somebody who has never cared about grades (much to my detriment) I have never discussed my transcript / LSAT with anyone because it's just not something that would usually come up in conversation. I mean, it reminds me of those people at college who would come up to you and ask what SAT score you got. (The response: a punch to the face? Making up a fictitious number? who knows :-D )

Yes, it does look like we are in the same boat. Should be a thrill ride for the next 3 months. And by "thrill ride" I mean excruciatingly long waits for a random pattern of acceptances and rejections.

(to the user / wireless protocol known as bluetooth) I searched for "asian" and "big eyes" on google, and all I got were results on how asians could not possibly have big eyes. Or, pictures purportedly of "asians" with big eyes, except that they weren't so much "asian" as "hapa." :-D /asian with big eyes /loves hapa women

Our stats are the kind that make admissions committees commit suicide via hari-kari. In a world where one can score several thousand times better on a second LSAT than the first (with respect to percentile) I would not be surprised if I was rejected from EVERY SINGLE LAW SCHOOL this year, or converely, waitlisted or admitted to most. Obviously there is no method to this madness. /slow but steady descent into lunacy

I think that we can declare Hawgjuan the indisputable winner of this thread for tying together sex and chemical engineering together in the same sentence.

It would seem that there are enough of us retards to start another law school board.

All your pawn are belong to us.

I don't have the engineering thing going for me, though. Or HYP. Or a big wang, for that matter.

I am rather hoping that the high incidence of splits on LSN is simply a result of the nebulous nature of our dubious enterprise rather than a symptomatic schism between the LSAT and GPA system. I have heard that engineers recieve some additional consideration but I am rather doubtful as to the accuracy of this information. Plus, to realistically call myself an 'engineer' would be akin to a fast-food worker calling himself/herself a "dietary scientist," I am simply not competent at it.

Congratulations on all your acceptances, even a momentary glance at your profile demonstrates that your credentials are in all ways superior to mine (in the sense that any number is greater than zero). I am currently devising a way to sleep my way into Harvard Law School, although this may be-- literally-- a painful endeavour, what with the admissions committee full of men (they ARE pricks, right?)

My maturity level is what most people might characterize as " at red alert or lower" and hence it would be downright inethical to burden any female (or male) with the title of "my wife," what with the public stigma and embarassment / pity that would inevitably follow. Given the acceptance of the above disclaimer, I do in fact accept your generous offer and I will search around for a ring, preferably made out of something more precious than tin and cubic zirconian-- /must shut up now before digging hole any deeper.

Your username evokes the image of a chiral orientation in organic chemistry (zwitterione?), but then again you are not asian (or ARE you? hm.) so you might not be prima facie psycho premed as those of nationality often are. Misbubbling is probably the worst thing that could happen, so I hope that the law school accepts our explanations-- on the other hand, once must admit that our addendums are tantamount to saying (in effect) that we can't even fill out a bubble-sheet correctly. /would be worried but I am too lazy /pleased that you are not politically correct, those guys are lamer than cows.

Guys, sorry about all the typos in my posts, my thought process has been bamboozled by the unusually high amount of email correspondance that I had to deal with earlier this morning.

E-mail me if you want to keep going... P.S. You obviously have WAY too much time on your hands...

Hello emc, I think that I will have to concede the game at this point as I cannot play chess blindfold past turn 2 without accidentally moving the rook off the board etc. P.S. you clearly have WAY too little time on your hands, since you actually appear to be a productive member of society (very unfortunate, but it happens to the best). /thinking about going to work tomorrow but probably will decide against it

ur story made me cry.. i want to join ur support group

I would press your head against my admittingly non-muscular man-tits but this gesture might be considered as an indicator of homosexuality on my part, which as far as I can tell is a total drag with a lot of drawbacks in today's Republican-dominated world and no real benefits, not even affirmative action. I have however posted detailed instructions on how to join LSAT splits anonymous on your page.

Thank you for the kind words, although I am not so much funny as a permanent passenger on life's curveball machine (I simultaneously function as the denial and proof of God, as my extraordinarily chaotic life trajectory would reject any notion of an ordered universe, yet the fact that I am still alive after climbing a four-story building on the outside whilst being totally plastered-- amongst other equally insane things-- would indicate that something / someone is watching over me). I will be looking for you in my class, I think that we should both wear our Boy Scout uniforms (in my past life I was actually an Eagle Scout, though you would never guess it from my moral conduct). I am easily recognizable as the guy who comes to class with a motorcycle helmet on, smelling very strongly of gasoline fumes.

In addition to totally kicking ass, I'm sure you had a great personal statement, and I hope you get in somewhere sweet. Your success is our success. May having an aptitude for aptitude rule the day yet again. Long live standardized testing. Hazaa!

are going to end up at the same school and do some serious damage.

Pitchershot, thank you for the encouragement, it is in some ways the real ultimate compliment to be a mammal, and I would buy you a drink if we were to attend the same college, which seems unlikely to me given the fact that you will most likely go to Harvard / Yale / Stanford with your numbers. I used to hate standardized testing, but what can I say, it's my savior even if it doesn't mean a damn thing, long live the LSAT, long live people who took the LSAT twice, and long live people with splits greater than 8 points! /i like to think that wrestling with the LSAT is like a rumble in the bronx, except much uncooler, since your weapon of choice is a #2 pencil instead of a knife or revolver

Mwitterone, you are correct-- it could be some sort of alcohol-induced reflex-magnifying haze, as best exemplified by Jackie Chan in his landmark scholarly achievement "Drunken Boxing," possibly the greatest movie ever released. By the way, if you happen to attend Yale, I have heard that if you climb the central dome at Woosley, you will find a large packet of material left by the last person to climb up there, I tried to verify this but was carted off by New Haven cops before I could get to the top, so YMMV!

Laniraan, be sure to tune in for the sequel next year after I get rejected from all the law schools in question. From your profile you appear to be an asian woman, and as you must know asian women are awesomely hot (i have yellow fever to the maximum) and thus this provides the answer to both of your queries, the first pertaining to why / if asians have small eyes, and the second asking why asians have dominated entire continents. My opinion is that some asians were give smaller eyes to keep the asian race from becoming uncontrollably beautiful, but they still have plenty of children and hence have conquered several continents with their progeny. /asian guy with big eyes

If you (meaning everyone on LSN) have not visited Juanquero2's profile, I would step back and immediately re-evaluate your life, I highly recommend going there, it is quite sobering and a good lesson of the cynicism underlying the law school admissions process.

an interloper...i hadn't signed in yet above

Hello darkangel, you point out a possibility that I had not even considered-- caffeine and alcohol are my drugs of choice, but I admit that I am fascinated by the ethical ramifications of adderall on the testing world at large, and furthermore, the prospect of meeting a Mexican druglord. I do wonder if the Mexican drug czars have felt any loss of status after years of cornering the market on cocaine only to have to market adderall to SAT crazed kids, I think it would be a severe setback in terms of prestige... You have sort of accidentally stumbled on one of my areas of interest-- that is, the synthesis and neuropharmacology of amphetamines in general. As I understand, "adderall" is simply a brand name for the dextro isomer of amphetamine, which was banned quite a while ago, probably because it is a selective dopamine reuptake inhibitor and stimulant similar to cocaine. The chemistry of these molecules (I am not sure if you are a chem major, if you are then you no doubt already know all of this) is very interesting in that you can simply methylate the N-terminal end of d-amphetamine to get d-methamphetamine (a.ka. "meth"); it has been a while since I have read up on recent research but I believe that the isomers do different things, the levo isomer is probably inactive. Anyway, you could then tack on an ether bridge and get Ecstasy, or somehow put an OH group, cut off the methyl group, and get mescaline...halogenate the phenyl backbone to get all sorts of interesting hallucinogens...methylate or ethylate the phenyl to get DOM or any of the other uber-powerful psychedelics that were discovered back in the '60s and in fact competed with LSD...the possibilites are quite literally endless. This is an area of law in which I have a great deal of interest (drug law), I was recruited by the DEA a while back, but I was not too interested. Perhaps they will have to revise the LSAT in the future to adjust for the stimulant-taking kids, so that you can get...say...a 186, that will be a sad sad day as my relatively pithy 179 will be relegated to the bargain bin of mediocrity. /i have said too much

descendants of Gh.Khan are surely getting screwed (exactly why you need not worry). people pissed off about AA have obviously never been to some shitholes like Far Rockaway, Cabrini Greene, deep South, etc. where the truancy rate is outrageous and teachers don't give a shit. That said, the whole preferrential treatment thing needs to be based on income, not race, perhaps. Although the blacks have been, and still are being screwed in every possible way imaginable, while being an inseparable part of US culture (which isn't necc. true of other minorities, e.g. Mex-Am's, Lat-Am's, Ind-Am's, etc.) Still don't know how I feel about AA though.

Hello moskvich78, first of all congratulations on your acceptances, I'm sure that many more are coming and you give hope to all the rest of us LSAT / GPA splitters. I too am ambivalent on AA; I freely admit to being a "trust fund baby" type, but I used to work in inner-city Detroit where the conditions were totally unreal, with crack-houses lining every block, litter and trash everywhere...I don't really see how anyone can get out of that situation, to escape from the ghetto is basically like getting 180 several times in a row for the non-URMs, an event that can only happen with both a lot of merit and a lot of luck. I was thinking that a better policy might be to let URMs take the LSAT as many times and only take the highest. Of course this is not as great of an advantage as getting an automatic +6 points on the LSAT and +.4 on the GPA, but it is quite a significant advantage without eliminating the self-worth of an applicant. Obviously if applicant scores 170+, you know that they have some pretty great mental abilities regardless of how many times that they have taken the LSAT. /what I say may be biased because I am a LSAT splitter

Power, you're hilarious. Best of luck to you, I'll be following your replies even though I'll prolly get news first, you january-apping slacker. If law students were as funny as you and not so much the uptight jerks I usually meet in DC, I'd want to go to law school....

Thanks for the best wishes...good luck on your application process. From your numbers and your great sense of humor, I'm sure you'll get in somewhere great.

The affirmative action horse has not only been beaten to death, but is missing several limbs and bleeding profusely, so yeah, I shouldn't dwell on that-- Did you live in Zurich for a long time (i.e. are you applying as an international student?)

Hello jurisdebt, thank you and good luck to you, unless there are many bhvexilles running around I infer that you are the bhvexille on xoxohth (I am the poster known as "quaser," although I'm sure that you know that already).

...a screaming comes across the sky... Perhaps we will end up at Umich together-- unfortunately as law students we will be square in a^2 by definition, but the atmosphere here seems pretty relaxed compared to back-stab-me-now-U (i.e. everywhere else), this may be my first choice.

Thank you very much, although if all law school students were like me, it would be an unmitigated disaster, with 0% attendance on some days when the students decided to suddenly all go AWOL and spend the day skiing. There would also be an armada of ice cream trucks on campus, as well as a very unprestiguous law review, the membership of which would be determined by exactly how fast one could drive a golf-cart into the President's house. In short it would not be law school...I'll be glad to see you get into NYU, as we need more laid-back people into law school. /props to your LSAT, it rocks.

... your rant rocks. Rant on!

Okay, here's the plan. If Ave Maria and Florida Coastal can do it, so can we. Let's all us unbalanced LSAT/GPA open a law school that doesn't have so much damn *school*. To get credentials, Go wherever you want (or don't), pass the Bar (I think CA doesn't even require a law degree), and then let's open a new law school taught in the Ne Emprical method: Every Saturday night, raise a ruckus, rest up Sunday and Monday, and on Tuesday to Thurs work out which laws may have been broken and what defense to present. Every Friday is Trial Day (no mock trials for NE!)

I don't know about that... I think it may have more to do with us being incredibly lazzzzzy students (at least I know that's why my gpa blows) Anyways, I think you're cool - can I go to UMich with you guys too? :S

At least you avoided giving your mailperson a lap dance. Something is indeed rotten in the state of Denmark and methinks it is nothing but the main: law school admissions are losing a human element; they seem unable to determine cool kids from douche bags, and they value the LSAT far more than they should. Period.

Tea leaves say we're still in the running at NW... The 17x 11.2s are more exciting to watch than American Idol (even if, technically, you're an 11.6).

Thank you, I think have run out of "anger" especially considering the long impending waitlist, I have pretty much given up on the prospect of knowing where I will go before June.

The school should require only one thing for admission: a 99% LSAT...this is what most law schools are anyway, right? Do we actually learn anything in law school?

Hello, I would recommend Ann Arbor except that I almost got run over by an errant bus today while walking outside in the sub-zero snowstorm conditions, I don't understand why they didn't build UMich in...say...Florida or something...otherwise I have heard that A^2 has a very relaxed atmosphere, so you should definitely come here :)

Hello juanquero2, I think that you may be correct, I may be shooting for the record of the MOST waitlists out of all the applicants this year, I think that my adrenaline has pretty much worn off and I am entering my "sophomore" year of the law school admissions cycle, to put it succintly: this blows.

You have impeccable timing, I have just been WL'ed by NU...either their claim of taking the higher LSAT is totally bogus (very likely) or they actually take the entire WE thing seriously (hm...not very likely). On the bright side the interview doesn't seem to help any, so your chances are better than mine (with WE etc...) I will be watching your results closely.

to the northwestern waitlist. I set up camp here a couple months ago: here's your soap and blanket, and there's your toilet. Haven't had my interview yet, hoping to get there in June, if they haven't given the thumbs-down by then. I feel like I'm moving to stage III of this process: stage I was hope, stage II cynicism, and stage III is apathy. But it's too early for you to reach stage II, with so many letters still to arrive. Talk to me when you have eight rejections. I really hope you get in somewhere tops, power. You're alright, and that's more than I'll say for most of these fools.

MacGuyver is on around noon at least on Tuedsays on cable in austin Texas. I watched last week.

more than one chance to prove that the LSAT is just a product that has been FETISHIZED into becoming something that it is not. If it is such a "reliable" predictor, why is there a decent number of people who can make 10+ point increases? Let me rephrase that. The Bell curve is just another symptom of the desire in our society to predict what can't be predicted and control what cannot be controlled. There will always be outliers, statistical "anomalies." Wow, didn't mean to get so uh, impassioned there. It's your writing! Works like a catalyst, getting all of us "don't rock the boat!" Asians angry. And what's worse than an Angry Asian? Best of luck with your apps. And if you get into Columbia, I want a blow by blow replay of the lapdance :)

delete that story by all am. it ruined my week and maybe even my whole life. also, these waitlists are probably more a product of you applying so late--one of them will take you when the dust has settled. In other news, I finally found some peace, from virginia. later man.

you crack me up - I just spent entirely too much time reading your info/comments - I cannot stop cracking up. Honestly... I want to go to the same law school as you just so I can hunt you down and force you to be my friend.

Where the heck are your responses, man?

Actually, is your name "mr eleph" or "m r e l e p h"? Regardless... I'm finally BACK! After two weeks that I would characterize as "a totally useless waste of time," I have checked into rehab after posting relentlessly on XOXOHTH.com, and now I am back home on LSN. In the preceding week I masqueraded as the following posters on various pre-law forums: 1. a sophisticated robot sent back from the future to lecture pre-law students about various sundry topics 2. a clinically insane batman, also babbling on sundry topics 3. the batmobile 4. an out-of-control rocket (this was quite easy, I simply prefaced all of my posts with WHERRRRRRR!!! or whatever sound an incoming missile makes) Needless to say (this is a strange expression, no? it would seem that one would never use it if they were simply going to say something...) I need to shape up and do something proactive to get off the WLs, but motivation is at an all-time low. Also I had my hands full when I got linked from XOXOHTH (the inevitable "shit-eater" story had quite a goatse.cx touch to it). It just suddenly occured to me that perhaps I should reply to posts on other people's forums? Do you know the proper protocol? /WHERRRRRRRR!

You make a very good point about the LSAT, although I would probably put it the other way around. I don't think that it is very simple to gain ten points, but I know (from experience) that it is a VERY simple matter to drop 10+ points from your practice tests due to that girl adjusting her bra [NOT that i was looking] or in my case, a kindengartener teacher who wandered around and literally stared over my shoulder for five minutes. I really expected her to pipe up and say something ridiculous while I was racing through the LGs like, "how now, brown cow?" So there is no way that the LSAT can possibly be accurate. Btw, where did your profile go?

Your article about the journey of the rejection letter "that could" is hilarious, have you ever considered writing a novel? I am really quite concerned about people like you going to law school, for the mere fact that they might sabotage your innate creative abilities.

I have heard that the authorities have forcefully deported you from Camp WL to UVA. CONGRATULATIONS! Nobody deserves it more than you do. Meanwhile I am running a bit low on food supplies in my tent. I have tried munching on the soap but the shit-eater story has made me lose my appetite (again). I do have the distinct feeling of deja-vu...like this time when I was at the zoo watching an elephant do his business. On the one hand, it was positively revolting. On the other, it was such an epic act that I couldn't help but watch it, which I guess makes me a pervert. I think that I will have to remove the story (sorry, all_am22, it's been archived on XOXOHTH at least twenty times). /CONGRATULATIONS!

Hello Miss Strawberry and congratulations on all of your acceptances, have you made up your mind as to where you are going? I note-- not without a certain degree of despair- that you are an ardent fan of Hello Kitty, a malaise that I consider to something of a fatally contagious disorder. I have seen this all before, you see...my female cousins from Taiwan inexplicably pulling up to my apartment in a car with a Hello Kitty logo emblazoned shamelessly on the front, causing rumors to swell on campus that I was in fact "a legendary gay cultural icon," (i am not gay, and i am definitely not a gay cultural icon) a situation that was not necessarily amerliorated when my friends crashed into my kitchen only to find it full of Hello Kitty pots, pans, and spoons. Thus I have a somewhat irrational urge to stab Hello Kitty in the nose, but don't let that be an obstacle in our friendship! You seem bubbly beyond comprehension, and I hope we end up at the same school together ;)

Don't worry about people like me being compromised by the system. When you're blessed with the ability to be bitterly sarchastic, and the ability to communicate this hatred, law school can only make for better comments and inspiring stories of slackers trying to flank their laziness and underachievement with grandeur...or attempted grandeur, like myself and my proud collection of rejection letters. I don't have the balls to write a paper that says "why I like Korean women" (although I'd love to read it), but I will ham it up for whoever is reading or listening.

SPLITTERS raise the aspirations of ALL men and women! We give people a reason to HOPE and BELIEVE! We are the SeaBiscuits of the world, objects of stories to be retold! I wish you luck my Asian-splitter friend! May the world tremble at our COURAGE and VALOR!! ..and may we OVERRUN the ranks of HYS! =)

Are u from AA originally? and did you ever attend MCKC camp?

It's good to see that you're still truckin' with a vengeance-- it is interesting that you mention asian women as I am currently travelling through Hong Kong / China / Taiwan. Suffice to say, my anxiety about law school admissions has evaporated and has been entirely replaced by a new and more pressing matter, namely STDs. What happened yesterday night in the club? And who WAS that person? Herpes, stay away!!! It is at times like this that I wish that I was a church-faring Christian, which is...alas...not the case. /frantically scrubbing his privates /ow ow! this scruby thing hurts

That book is awesome...wide sweeping phrases (those frisbee sentences seriously made me weep). It's the memoir that I never got to write-- not surprising, as I am an over-privileged trust-fund baby.

I observe that you have gotten into USC. Congratulations!! Great school and Cal is cal, of course, I regret not applying there. I also see that we are on the same WLs at Columbia and NU (I think that you have a decent chance at NU). /mutual support /my class rank is lower than yours

Thank you for the compliments-- very flattering, although I assure you that I am very unspectacular, and furthermore, much unlike Jesus, who (I have heard) is the son of the supreme lord over heaven and earth and the sea, although I have always been of the opinion that all of the good stuff in the universe (like women and beer) is allocated to the Buddha. I hear ya with regard to the LSAT/GPA, and I strongly advise you to take the LSAT over again if it went badly the first time. What can I say? Crap happens-- I misbubbled but I still would have scored seven points less than usual (~172 or so). /do not worry, the path has been lit for you

I am delighted to make your acquaintance, although I suspect that we have met before. Which Ivy were you at? If you went to college in New Haven, I almost certainly met you (it is a long and sordid story, but in a nutshell several of my lady friends took turns on getting me to veer away from my atheistic faith, which was very awesome in some ways, such as the fact that they were hot, and yet very not-awesome in other ways, such as the fact that instead of meeting me at a club or bar, they would meet me at a church of their own choice, which in turn led to even more awesomeness (even in the midst of the negative awesomeness) as there would be even MORE hot women at the church, as well as delicious cookies. Presumably God was there too, although I never got to personally meet him (he is in the VIP room, no?) They did sway me back to being agnostic again however so now I am quite worried about my "sins" versus my "virtues" (these are often the same things). Are you a Christian pastor (are their different types? I am completely ignorant upon this point). Also, AA is a recent development-- what is MCKC? /thinking about hell /thinking about heaven /thinking about football!!!

i'm pretty sure you're a genius

. So true! Very easy to slip up and difficult to score on point. Speaking of evil individuals looking over your shoulder and fraying your already shredded nerves, I had a proctor who was quite "observant." She was Asian and I thought we were supposed to "stick together," but not that one. And her partner in crime had his fly down the entire time after break. Waitlists! *grrr* One of them is bound to pay off... I'm sending out positive vibes for the coolest Asian guy on LSN ;)

If you only come out of it with an STD, you're lucky. Better that, than genital warts AND a child (and a 'baby momma'). New waitlist letter = new material, check it out. Peace, Smalls.

"Lawyers are all right, I guess--but it doesn't appeal to me . . . . I mean they're all right if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides. Even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phoney? The trouble is, you wouldn't."

"Lawyers are all right, I guess--but it doesn't appeal to me . . . . I mean they're all right if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides. Even if you did go around saving guys' lives and all, how would you know if you did it because you really wanted to save guys' lives, or because you did it because what you really wanted to do was be a terrific lawyer, with everybody slapping you on the back and congratulating you in court when the goddam trial was over, the reporters and everybody, the way it is in the dirty movies? How would you know you weren't being a phoney? The trouble is, you wouldn't."

Mr. Powers--sorry I been MIA during this trying period. You were in my corner, and I'm still in yours. Was monitoring Zimbabwe elections--no major violence so I'm back near the internet now. Let me play catch-up. First of all, Stanford, fuck it, move on. So many waitlists bode well, in all honesty. These schools cannot bring themselves to reject you. I stand by my previous comment: you just applied too late. They like you but their classes have gotten full. But it only takes one kid deciding to defer for a year a Yale, then they pull someone off the waitlist, and he was going to go to NYU, so they pull someone off the waitlist, and he was going to go to Penn, etc. etc. That's when you get scooped up. If you get on one or two more waitlists, I'd consider going to the media...gotta be some kind of record. Get local paper to run a story on the boy who got accepted nowhere but waitlisted everywhere...it's a real human-interest story. But keep the faith--I got eight rejections before my first acceptance.

I say NYU, being the slutty whores that they are, will be your first acceptance

On UPenn. the anti-american dream lumbers on. Are you committed full on, or just buying time for some waitlists...hang on for virginia, I need a comrade.

Your page is the hands down funniest page on LSN. What city are you coming from & when are you planning to move to philly?

Can I read your PS? If So, JimmyPoor2004 at yahoo