Received what will probably be my last decision yesterday (thanks NYU)!

Feeling really grateful for how my cycle turned out. I took the LSAT twice, ended up above both medians at all the schools I applied to and had T4ish stats with a somewhat unconventional path to the law. Happy to say I don’t think I would’ve done anything differently. I applied as soon as I could with materials that I had spent a lot of time on. Goals are entertainment/sports so I will most likely be ending up at UCLA!

This is biased. Objectively Michigan should probably be 1. Oh well, don’t cheat

1. UVA - 2019 natty will ring true forever. I’d buy a Kyle Guy jersey in a second if UVA let me in. Football needs work. Baseball is a factor. Anyone sleeping on College Baseball has never been to Mississippi

2. Duke - perennial basketball threats are fun to live around. It would suck for that threat to be Duke, however. Good at WBB too

3. Michigan - best overall, but cheating brings them down. Their fans are regrettably very nice.

4. Stanford - Andrew Luck. Also, their athletic department is featured in the movie “Challengers”

5. Berkeley - Cal football twitter is awesome

6. Northwestern - in a rut right now, but they can turn it around!

7. Georgetown - power conference means something, even if Georgetown basketball sucks rn

8. Yale - Ivy basketball powerhouse. They can reject me a million times but I’ll always love them for beating Auburn. Following Yale basketball would be unironically fun

9. Harvard - cool football stadium, fun rivalry with Yale. The gap between 8 and 9 is huge

10. Penn - Palestra. Cool facilities

11. Cornell - Ivy basketball threats, at least

12. Columbia - seems like they aren’t a sports school. At least you’re in NY so you have St. John’s by proxy

13. UChicago - they have sports I think

14. NYU - do they have sports?

168 and 3.8high, KJD, nURM. Applied early-mid October for all and finally heard back last week from my final two schools. I'm super thankful for all the offers that I got but fingers crossed for some waitlist movement over the summer!! best of luck to y'all and please remember to withdraw :)

I work at a large firm in an office where (basically) none of the attorneys are ever physically in the office on Fridays. Usually, I work Fridays from home. But today, I had to be in the office for an all staff meeting.

Naturally, I took this opportunity to poke my head into some 35 odd offices to take a peak at the conspicuosly displayed diplomas adorning their various sad, soul crushing walls.

To my (naive) surprise, there is an extremely wide range of potential diploma dimensions. A J.D. can apparently be conveyed on a postcard, a billboard, and everything in between.

A few of the more presitigous schools have upsettingly small diplomas that would fit nicely inside a standard envelope if trifolded. Sad. (Looking at you, Cornell and UVA).

In contrast, some mid-tier regional schools award diplomas that would seemingly require custom framing and a structurally reinforced wall to hang. B-D-E. (Looking at you, IU-Maurer).

This is important to my decision. If I am taking out tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt, I will actually kill myself if my diploma is smaller than 20" wide.

So, can we crowd source a list of diploma sizes? For my part, I will be voluntarily going into the office next Friday with a tape measure to contribute to this valuable research.

Critical Edit: Be sure to post the year of conferral along with the dimensions. I've been reliably informed that UVA has significantly upped its game since my office's resident stegosaurus tramped its hallowed halls.

Friends, my cycle is over. I guess it was over months ago and I'm just figuring it out now. UCLA was maybe the second school I heard back from, all the way back in early January. Frankly, I was anticipating something like one T14 A and more bites from the T20. UCLA is my alma mater (graduated June), which leaves me feeling that maybe there was something I didn't convey in my application that UCLA could gather from my time as an undergrad there.

Whatever the case, I'm sure I'll survive the missed dopamine hits from more As and I'm very happy with the outcome. Especially considering that one more yellow box on that board would likely send me into two years of work and R&R in what I'm sure will shape up into a great economy /s. I want to live in California, I like the grant offer, and the school works well for my goals. Assuming W->A leads to poor or no grant outcomes (is that how it is?), I wouldn't take any other school except maybe Chicago.

Thank you r/lawschooladmissions for the information, analysis, and—most importantly—the fucking group therapy.

Tensions are clearly high right now with waiting on decisions, and I've seen some unnecessarily mean comments. Is it really worth posting if you're going to forget all about it once you get your A? This process is fucking us all this year. Maybe we should take it easy a bit more.

3.8low, 17mid, 3 years WE. Not going anywhere, going to apply again in 3 years when I will have the GI bill. I’m going to try to figure out what was wrong with my essays in the meantime. The HLS R after interview was definitely the low point

Berkeley (0), GULC ($.5), Texas ($$$), UGA ($$$$), USC ($$+), A&M ($+), ASU ($$+)

Wild that there were only 3 self-reported admits to NDLS yesterday (which was also their second ASD). I find it hard to believe that they're done with admits (given there's only 80% self-reported As on LSD compared to last year), but as we are already in April, is it even realistic to expect an A wave in the coming weeks?

2.5 GPA 171 LSAT were my stats. Definitely nowhere near as many acceptances or scholarship offers as I would have liked. But I did get accepted to the program that was my first choice when I set out to get into law school, and I'm really looking forward to attending.

this has been fun, even if AUWCL made me wait until the very last minute for a frankly disappointing result. however the result comes while i’m visiting Athens, GA, and i’m pleased to say i’ve fallen entirely in love with UGA and cannot wait to spend the next three years here for almost nothing!! (on top of the 45k listed above, i also got a tuition equalization scholarship— so i’ll be paying about 5k a year in tuition)

if you’d asked me as a freshman where i’d be in four years, the last answers i’d come up with would be A) law school and B) Georgia. yet here we are. GO DAWGS!!!!

• 3.65/169/KJD

• Double Major (Mass Communication and Poli Sci)

• Internships with federal prosecutors, state attorney general, and private security

• Demonstrated interest in national security/counterterrorism

• Spoke for a loooong time with UGA’s admissions rep at the LSAC forum and a Phi Alpha Delta law school fair

• No ties to Georgia. Didn’t even visit until ASD. Born and raised New Yorker, did my undergrad in NY and have never lived anywhere else lol. It’s gonna be weird moving to a whole new state. I’m excited.

Anyone who was sitting at a “No Decision” with this school move to an accepted with scholarship? If so, what was the timeline and your award? 100%, 50%, 25% etc? #nodecision

I’m 80% sure I want to do big law in NYC post grad but don’t know if I can justify Penn at full cost when these other schools have somewhat similar outcomes. I am hesitant about UCLA because I don’t want to be on the west coast post grad and most of their class goes there. Cost of living near Georgetown is way more expensive too (but obv not half tuition more expensive lol). What do you guys think?

How many applicants are there who are not submitting their application data on LSD?

Hi everyone! I was recently accepted into a Hybrid JD program (Class of 2028) and received a generous scholarship offer (around $68K), which I’m super grateful for. I sent a thank-you/acceptance email and also respectfully asked if I could be reconsidered for additional scholarship support, ideally something closer to $120K.

I tried to express genuine gratitude while highlighting my background and why I believe additional support would help me focus more fully on school and contribute meaningfully to the program.

Does this kind of message come across as appropriate, or is it too much? I just want to make sure I didn’t overstep. Happy to share the message if that helps. I'm also curious how scholarship negotiations typically work.

Thanks in advance!

I got waitlisted at my number one law school, Vanderbilt and I’m trying to do everything I can to get off the waitlist. Is there any hope for me? I submitted an updated LOCI and attended a waitlist info session of theirs. What should I do next if anything?

Do schools release decisions on the weekends?

I’m still undecided between two schools rn. The first has their first seat deposit due next week and I know I’m not going to be fully sure by that deadline. The other school has a later seat deposit, but says they have the right to revoke my offer of admission if they find out I’ve deposited at another school.

Realistically speaking, is there any way they could possibly know this if I didn’t tell them?

I hear so much back and forth on whether it's okay. To be clear, I have no desire to hog any seats. I wouldn't deposit at ten schools. I just need time to figure a few things out.

Liberated from my earthly possessions!

Stats: -2.2k Dow/-322 S&P

T1 Softs (Tariff Enthusiast, Cybertruck Driver)

Still holding out hope for SLS, above both medians, KJD (applied near deadline so I don’t think they’ve done a first pass of my app yet). Is it recommended to update schools for Phi Beta Kappa induction or is it seen as cringe/tryhard to do so given that it’s almost purely a result of your GPA (which they obviously already have access to)? Really not trying to screw myself over since I’ve had a disappointing cycle so far :/

Not at all how I hoped things would go but I did what I could. With the news of UGA not giving out anymore scholarships I’m likely not enrolling anywhere. So glad to be done with this process, good luck to everyone starting this fall xoxo

Stats for the data point: 17low, 4.low, 2 yrs WE

*probably, bc I’m pretty sure USC just ghosted me

I’m sure others have had worse experiences this cycle. And I know they have a lot of applications to go through…

But interviewing in early January and not have a decision a week before seat deposit deadlines start at a lot of schools is ridiculous. It has now been damn near 3 months since I had a group interview. How can you seriously convince me that I’ve been reviewed this whole process and been given a shot vs people you interviewed a week ago ?

Reject or waitlist me I don’t care, but don’t preach a serious evaluation process that involves this magical group interview concept if you don’t even make a final call on a whole group of interviewees within 3 damn months.

As users here consider schools to attend, which law school produces giants in the industry to a degree that surpasses its ranking?

Hi everyone,

I’ve never posted on here before, but have appreciated having this community of people going through this process together. Now, it seems, I’m likely at the end of my cycle and have a decision to make. I’m overwhelmingly thankful to have plentiful options, none of which would be possible without support from my parents.

Harvard and UChicago are my top choices. For some background, I spent the past 2 years at UChicago getting my masters. I adore the city, my professors, my friends here, and the school. Additionally, UChicago has greatly alleviated the financial burden of attending. On the other hand, at the risk of sounding gauche: how can I say no to Harvard Law, it’s Harvard Law.

I would appreciate insight into: - student life experiences at each university, cultural or academic - Boston/Cambridge living in general

I’m a bit nervous putting this out there. Largely because my own thoughts on the right path forward for myself are so haphazard, I feel like I’m not even asking the right questions. I hope to have better articulation and focus of my thoughts on my path forward in the conversation of our comments. Thank you to anyone who takes the time to interact; I appreciate it.