sbw5utah (2022-2023)

what time did the denver email come?

Ave Maria e-mailed acceptance, and then sent the offical letter a week later. Offered a repeating $29k annual scholarship provided I keep my grades 3.0+ during my 2nd and 3rd years. They've been sending me a letter and/or e-mail almost every other day since then. I'm interested in the school, particularly a practically full-ride scholarship, and impressed with their perfect bar passage rate. However, I'm concerned about the rumors the school will be relocating in 2009 to Flordia. For now, im reserving judgment on going here until I hear back from my other options and any financial aid offers they have.

Denver sent an e-mail, followed by the offical acceptance letter a few days later. I'm interested in Denver as it seems like a very attractive campus, and I had a chance to visit their booth and speak with the Dean at a Law fair a few months ago. The tuition is rather steep, which is one thing they don't have going for them. I've been informed they will be sending out information on scholarships and financial aid in March after they receive my FASFA information, so I'm going to wait and see if they make a good offer I can refuse.

Sorry, you've got the wrong guy.

Got a letter today from Ave Maria indicating they are planning to relocate the school to Flordia in 2009. Given talk that the faculty may not all be up for the transfer, and the school's accredidation may be at risk, I'm planning on telling the school that I'm not interested.

BYU said no last saturday. Not really surprised since the Y was one of my "stretch" schools anyways. If not for the fact their tuition was so darn cheap I'd prefer the U over them.

Now this rejection was a real surprise to me as I figured Oregon was a safe bet. Oh well, it was low on my priority list anyways :)

Denver is sending financial aid and scholarship information to me next Monday. Right now they are my top choice if the financial aid package is right, otherwise that $30k pricetag is going to scare me off.

Denver is not offering any $ beyond the usual Stafford loans ($20k), and given that tuition alone is $30k, I'm not impressed. Still waiting waiting waiting waiting and yet more waiting for a better offering from another school. :P

Yeah really???? What have they been doing in their admissions office this year? I went complete almost 3 months ago... oh well.

Received a letter from CU on 4/4/07 that I was being put on the waitlist. CU is one of my stretch schools, so I'll gladly take my chances with this one. Unfortunately the letter was sent to one of my neighbors, and after spending the last 2 months without word from most of my law schools I'm starting to get worried that the post office has been misdelivering other responses. :(

Another bloody waitlist! Oh well, beats the rejection option :) UofA isin't high on my list but I'd certaintly prefer it over my other options right now (Ave Maria and Denver).

Well this one sucked. Utah keeps me on the hook forever and then sends the little no letter. I'm completely disappointed by this.

DU is NOT a good school. In fact, the students that come out of there are quite stuck up and if DU teaches Ethics at all, the students certainly don't practice them! Having been a previous CO Resident and dealing with several attorneys who are graduates of DU, I can tell you you're wasting your time if you would have gone to DU and the $30K price tag is far from worth it. Not only that, the area outright SUCKS! That is one of the worst parts of town (Next to Colfax and MLK), so it's not even pleasant. Boulder is much better. Good luck to you in getting off the waitlist there. Only thing is if you're a conservative and you go to Boulder, watch out! But if you're a liberal, you're fine and the crowd will welcome you. I can give you more information about Boulder if you want any. Secondly, I have no idea why UNLV put you on the waitlist. I mean, that is outright RIDICULOUS. You and the other fellow whose LSAT was 165. Mine outright SUCKS! And to think I have a chance there now that you two were waitlisted! Yeah, RIGHT! I mean, I know I'm a URM and have two Bachelor's and a graduate degree, but...I just don't understand what's going on with UNLV at this point in time. I need a decision from them NOW. I can't believe they took this long to tell people this. What a joke. But wherever you go, I wish you the best of luck. If you need anymore information about Boulder or UNLV, I'll be more than happy to give it to you. Take care.

Well this admissions cycle completely sucked for me. Unless one of my wait-listed choices comes through it looks like I'm stuck with Ave Maria.

Oh I'm painfully aware of the drama going on in Ann Arbor, however unless I get super lucky (UNLV, CU, AU), or Denver decides to slice their tuition in half, I'm stuck with them for better or for worse. Although I confess I'm already getting ready for the transfer applications (in hindsight I simply got greedy this admissions cycle and should have applied to less stretch schools, but too late for that now). If get a good ranking after 1L I should hopefully have a chance to get out of dodge before high noon so to speak. :)

Ave Maria = Political nightmare, ABA investigations, relocation as a 3L, oh my. Denver = Great school with a not-so-great pricetag. I'm considering the idea of "biting the bullet" of a year of their tuition and trying to my luck to transfer just about anywhere else.

Lucky you! Other people have said that UNLV rarely accepts waitlisted candidates. I still haven't heard one word from them and I can't really understand why. I'm going to Vegas in a couple of weeks and I think I'm going to go to the admissions office in person to find out what in the world their problem is. But it's a great school, you will do wonderfully there. And truthfully, it's a heck of a lot better than Colorado. DU is not that great of a school; it's quite overrated actually. I lived in Colorado for over 8 years and am familiar with DU. It's not what it's cracked up to be. You deifnitely made the right choice. Good luck.

Over the past week I have withdrawn from Ave Maria and Denver, and asked to have my name taken off the waitlist at Colorado and Arizona.

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