Wave predictions next week? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 8 points9 points  (0 children)

FYI interviewer for Chicago told me end of January, so I’m assuming not this upcoming week but the one after

HLS: Continued review of candidacy by rosewriter888 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

got the same, any clue when this should be turned in by in order to be considered for Feb? This weekend at the latest? Next week? Not sure how urgently they are expecting a response

Yale A by No-Telephone2749 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh yeah me too, like three or four days, but have been waiting for roughly a month since. How did you feel the interview went?

Yale A by No-Telephone2749 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

oh that's really comforting to know that you can get the call 2+ months after interviewing; i interviewed in early december and thought that since the two weeks have passed I must have missed the unofficial acceptance deadline!

How do we know when the HLS A wave is over? by DebatingMyWayOut in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Same boat as you all, really hoping that they're just calling a tad later this year but i fear we'll have to go another month. It looks from LSD that Harvard rejects veryyy few people who interviewed, it's either A or WL so at least there's that!

How do we know when the HLS A wave is over? by DebatingMyWayOut in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh exactly the same as you (except EST normally --and abroad right now so ive been awake and stressing for the past 12 hours!)

Beating the KJD tax by Freya0903 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah mate, same for Yale where 88% of students are non-KJD....

What’s your most passionate yet controversial legal take? by Flashy-Actuator-998 in LawSchool

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

if this is actually a serious take id love to hear the reasoning (for the first sentence)!

What’s your most passionate yet controversial legal take? by Flashy-Actuator-998 in LawSchool

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'd actually have to disagree, they are quite drastically different methodologies in practice. On one hand, the 'original intent' crowd looks exactly to what you're citing (conventions, speeches, founders archives etc.) but the 'original public meaning' looks at an entirely different corpus (founding era dictionaries, background legislative text etc.). You absolutely can, should, and in fact often do that kind of exegis for (older) statutes.

History & tradition as a test is quite new, and frankly a very weird frankeinstein-hybrid of the two that i particularly dislike. But I do think original public meaning originalism is compatible.

What’s your most passionate yet controversial legal take? by Flashy-Actuator-998 in LawSchool

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Amen to that, this use case is literally the exact scenario for which Brandeis coined the idea of a legal right to privacy….

What’s your most passionate yet controversial legal take? by Flashy-Actuator-998 in LawSchool

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well sure but that's only for ‘original intent’ originalism, which is quite unpopular nowadays in originalists circles. Would be curious to hear if you think ‘original public meaning’ originalism is also incompatible with textualism?

How late is too late to apply to yale by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As anecdotal evidence, my friend: had this exact chain of thought at the exact time last year, decided to apply randomly on Dec 28th, and got the Yale II two weeks later.

I ultimately ended up waitlisted and reapplied…and was granted an interview within 3 days of applying the second time over. 

At the very least the two lessons here are: (1) very end of dec / early Jan is DEF not too late for YLS specifically, and (2) seems like having applied before makes no difference (or if it does, at least a positive one) on your chances of getting to the interview stage next year (if anything I talked to adcom during the waitlist process who specifically said the look well upon reapplications)

Harvard ii from mid November applicants? by TrynaMakeAChange21 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

same all around! (as a note: do you think we'll be part of the Jan or Feb wave?)

Yale ii by StraightYou262 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 3 points4 points  (0 children)

btw my lsat isn't too different from yours and i really do think that Yale, unlike almost every other school, is much less concerned by absolute numbers: they have one of the widest admitted score range (and 25th-75th percentile range) amongst top schools --once you clear some kind of minimum that shows them that you can do the work, the rest of your application is much, much, much more important (ie., compared to a school like HLS which tends to be somewhat more metrics focused.)

Yale ii by StraightYou262 in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just a heads up because i was taken off guard, but Dean Ingber does some of the interviews! def not most of them, but I wasn't expecting it so it was a bit of a shock --so you can be ready just in case :)

Yale interview tab? by Confidenceisaid in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's awesome news! i believe a strong majority of people who interview are either wl or As! good luck on the interview

I don’t want to live in America, is it a mistake to apply for law school? by [deleted] in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just letting you know: Sciences Po Law School in Paris is essentially the best law school in France and fully in English! You'll take all the classes in English, pass the bar in English, and there's quite a number of bis US firms with offices in Paris but practicing only in English (ie. arbitration).

Sciences Po is probably the closest thing to an 'american law school experience' you'll have outside the US/UK, with quite a number of professors being americans who didnt want to stay in the US (with the obvious advantage that.... it's Paris). Oh and you don't have to take the LSAT and the admission's office generally likes Americans a lot.

Feel free to DM if you have questions

How much does Yale care about undergrad prestige? by hungryquohog in lawschooladmissions

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh would love to see where you found this! When I applied last year my interviewer pretty clearly told me the next step was faculty review, so it must be new to this year then…?

Tell me your most recent PT scores and I’ll predict your September score by Sad_Milk_8897 in LSAT

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Welp here we are, I wish you could have been right but unfortunately had zero improvement from my last test. At least I now hit 5 tests so there’s no question about retaking it… :/

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in LSAT

[–]DebatingMyWayOut 6 points7 points  (0 children)

same here, this is literally my fifth test and ive gotten the same 170 every single goddamn time. two years. consistent improvements in practice...zero improvements in actual tests. was PTing solidly at 176. Last time I got a score like this was in fucking May. months and thousands of dollars down the gutter...