11/19 - Interviewed with Vanderbilt Alumni in Salt Lake City.
11/20 - Email invitation for interview with Georgetown Alumni.
12/03 - Interviewed with Georgetown Alumi via Skype.
12/10 - Accepted at Northeastern via email, called by 3rd year student later in the day. Admission packet to follow within 7 days (no mention of scholarships currently).
12/14 - Accepted at American Law via email. Scholarships to be decided in March.
12/15 - Scholarship packet from Northeastern arrived. $60,000 Social Justice Award split over 3 years, plus a $3,000 stipend for a paid internship.
12/17 - Waitlisted at Georgetown. No mention of preferred waitlist or not. Based on the graph of the 2013 applicants, every person with similar numbers plus/minus 3 LSAT points had the same result. Decision to be made by Fed. 28th per email.
12/20 - Duke application has been in "under review" status since Nov. 28th. No news yet.
12/22 - Phone interview with Case Western Reserve Law. Voluntary as part of application. Great opportunity to talk with a 3L student who is the editor of the Int. Law Review.
12/24 - Acceptance letter from University of Arizona arrived on Christmas Eve. Small brushed metal container with a thumb drive for the welcome packet. Scholarship letter to follow several weeks later.
01/06 - Accepted at the University of Utah via a phone call from the Dean of Admissions at 10 am on a Sunday (this date is correct, and no 01/12 like listed above. For some reason LSN won't let me select the right date sometimes, and I would hope its the website and not my $2500 Macbook Air's flash player). He said my official letter would be mailed out this week and the admissions "binder" within two weeks. Didn't expect the phone call considering the website says review of applications doesn't begin until "early January" and that acceptance is through mail and not through "email or phone." I've met the Dean once before at a Financing Your Legal Education workshop along with LSAC; he was really nice on the phone.
01/08 - Waitlisted at Fordham via email. I was asked in the email whether I would like to be placed on the waitlist and how long I would like to wait. Seems to be a similar situation for those with numbers close to mine.
01/15 - Accepted by Gonzaga via mail. Scholarship offer for $61,500 split over three years.
01/16 - Phone invitation for interview at BYU law with Dean of Admissions.
01/17 - Accepted by Case Western by email. Scholarship for $60,000 in a second email 30 minutes later.
01/22 - Accepted at BYU after 10 minute on site interview with the Assistant Dean of Admissions. Questions were mostly non-law related; focused on family and values.
01/31 - Case Western emailed to say they'll add a $5,000 stipend to my scholarship package. Nice addition.
02/15 - Email from Georgetown updating my waitlist information. Currently on the "Preferred Waitlist," which is unranked and may include admission all the way up till the first day of class.
02/25 - Waitlisted at Vanderbilt (sent in form included in letter to express my continued interest). Also received scholarship offer for 10,000 guaranteed each year at University of Arizona, which I feel is nice, but underwhelming.
03/04 - Admitted to Emory via snail mail. 45,000 split over 3 years stipulated by "good standing." Very, very happy (:
03/06 - Rejected at Duke via email. Fair decision given Duke's ranking and pool of applicants.
04/03 - Case Western emailed to say they increased my scholarship from 65,000 to 95,000, split over three years and guaranteed as long as I'm above a 2. 33 GPA. American also email to say I received a one time 5,000 faculty scholarship.
04/08 - Scholarship email from Utah for $14,075 the first year. I emailed several weeks ago to ask them to make tuition comparable to BYU and persistence seems to have paid off.
05/07 - Accepted to Georgetown via the priority wait-list. Very big day.
05/14 - Case Western sent a larger scholarship offer (from 95,000 to 105,000 guranteed over three years) even after I missed the seat deposit deadline. Per the email, if I would like to attend, a new deposit deadline will be set up.
06/21 - Case Western left a voicemail offering a full tuition scholarship for three years guaranteed. If I had received it earlier, I would have considered it seriously. For future applicants, Case Western clearly has to ability to pay more for those who wait.
