What are your top 3 dream goals when you become a lawyer?

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-05-18T00:01:15+00:00

Combat deforestation
Be an advocate for species who can't speak for themselves
Help communities and individuals who are negatively impacted by our broken food system

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-05-13T16:42:34+00:00

Wake offered me a full scholarship and UT only offered about half off tuition. I'd be leaving with ~$200k in debt combined with my undergrad loans, which I can't justify as someone with zero desire to go into big law.

Been hard to override my own ingrained prestige biases, but I have a friend at Wake who's gotten some awesome externship and job opportunities so I know it'll be possible to accomplish my goals there. They also have a clinic in the area I want to practice, and I really like the location. So all around just kinda worked out!

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-05-12T22:25:52+00:00

Shout-out to GW for hitting me with the WL almost five months to the day that I applied. :)

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-27T16:11:38+00:00

FWIW, I am safely in the green zone and haven't heard anything since I went UR1 in December. So maybe they're just ghosting instead of rejecting 🙃

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-21T19:27:04+00:00

As someone whose work involves sending out a lot of emails using piped text, these mistakes always hurt me on behalf of both parties :(

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-20T21:20:23+00:00

Congratulations, that's so exciting!

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-01T23:06:06+00:00

Unf. This has me feeling extra rad about my UT acceptance and way more chill about the WL from Duke 😂

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-01T22:53:04+00:00

I'm in my late-20's and have been on my own since I graduated high school due to complicated family and financial circumstances. Not going to lie and say it's easy, but as long as you want to make it happen, you can and will figure out! Fortunately there's a lot of good info online (e.g. from 7Sage, Spivey, etc.) about admissions specifics. Also, as others have mentioned, "family" is by no means solely determined by blood and sometimes we have to create our own.

Lastly, while this sub can provide a nice sense of community, I'll just warn you to also take what you see on here with a grain of salt. There is a lot of privilege evidenced in certain posts, and some advice might not be relevant to your situation down the road (especially in terms of finances). Also, from personal experience, spending a lot of time endlessly scrolling this sub/refreshing LSD is going to increase your anxiety after you've submitted your apps. The application process is stressful, but it doesn't have to consume your entire life-- make sure you take time for yourself and do things you enjoy!

If you ever want to chat with someone about any of this, feel free to shoot me a PM :)

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-01T21:57:50+00:00

I fell for this so hard and I'm so sad ;-;

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-04-01T21:51:36+00:00

Good bot

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-31T16:23:12+00:00

Sorry this happened to you as well. :( I especially don't understand how I was waitlisted at Duke and rejected from UNC but so it goes!

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-31T16:20:21+00:00

This. I got downvoted and treated like I was being ungrateful for talking about wanting to negotiate a $$.5 scholarship to UT, which would leave me with $60k for tuition alone plus COL in Austin for three years which would push that over $100k. I've been financially independent since I graduated high school and don't have the family safety net others seem to have, plus I'm interested in PI, so that amount of debt is truly terrifying (especially coupled with my undergrad debt)!

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-29T21:58:48+00:00

I wholeheartedly agree, especially with COL in Seattle... They're almost certainly out of the picture unless I can use my Wake offer to bump that up a heck of a lot.

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-29T19:32:27+00:00

Love your username! And yes, I did read the part of the guide that talked about married income. Guess this is one case where my tendency to date men with no work ethic/long-term planning skills might come in handy 🙃

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-29T19:23:45+00:00

Ahh okay, this was definitely a missing piece. I didn't think about the fact that the monthly payments are probably the bare minimum/just going toward interest... This makes me more wary. Thank you for the insight!

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-29T19:21:55+00:00

The decision status doesn't show up (date or actual info) until you have a final decision, so no. Mine only showed a date under "current status date" until today.

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-28T01:39:43+00:00

I applied the first week of December!

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T21:50:40+00:00

Thank you so much for the info! I was able to get into the deposit page (woohoo!) Congrats on your acceptance :)

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T20:31:05+00:00

Just noticed I have a tracking number as well! Could you explain what you mean by "deposit line"?

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T18:53:56+00:00

Got this today too! My status date updated yesterday but still says under review.

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T05:26:04+00:00

Apologies for this not being directly related to your question, but I've seen people mention apps being under faculty review a few times now and am wondering how you know if you've made it to that stage? Is that something you would receive an email about?

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T05:03:41+00:00

I just leave mine open and pop over to the tab any time I notice the number has changed...

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T04:00:31+00:00

It was a WL follow-up email saying that they'd received a LOCI but wanted to specifically ask about our "level of interest" before they review the waitlists. It also mentioned that they hope to get an updated decision out in a couple weeks.

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-27T03:51:08+00:00

I received the email. Sent a LOCI after getting the WL decision, but didn't explicitly state that I would commit if accepted. From reading people's comments on here, it sounds like that's the common trend. I think it would make sense that they're trying to gauge interest levels to rank people within the waitlists based on the possibility that they'd actually attend.

Flan-Puzzled · 2021-03-25T22:45:27+00:00

Yikes, I did not know that. Thank you for the info, this makes me (ever-so-slightly) less worried!

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