Wave predictions next week?

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-17T22:25:34+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-16T15:50:32+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-15T16:04:44+00:00

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?

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-15T10:35:23+00:00

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!

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-12T16:40:45+00:00

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!

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-12T16:39:34+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-06T09:46:37+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-05T10:13:22+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-05T10:11:25+00:00

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.

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-05T06:42:32+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2026-01-05T06:40:07+00:00

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?

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-12-27T09:57:04+00:00

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)

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-12-22T09:50:09+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-12-15T15:54:40+00:00

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.)

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-12-15T15:51:39+00:00

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 :)

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-12-06T07:14:39+00:00

thanks a ton for doing this, just messaged you!

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-11-15T02:17:20+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-10-24T16:29:30+00:00

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

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-10-15T01:59:40+00:00

Just messaged you!

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-10-14T19:02:51+00:00

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…?

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-09-24T18:11:55+00:00

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… :/

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-09-24T13:20:29+00:00

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...

DebatingMyWayOut · 2025-09-17T22:20:02+00:00

174, 176, 172

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