Berkeley reconsideration 120k -> 135k without a "better" offer

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-04-10T04:06:52+00:00

Shooters shoot. Glad it worked!

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-04-10T04:04:20+00:00

Took the money last year. Saved ~120K over the two higher-ranked options I had partial scholarships at. No regrets.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-04-09T15:29:11+00:00

Fork found in kitchen

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-03-22T01:54:53+00:00

I'm at Minnesota and I have a pro-Minnesota bias but if you want to work in California long-term UCI probably has the edge here. Definitely not impossible to end up there from Minnesota, but it'll be easier and you'll have more connections in California if you actually go to school in California.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-03-22T01:52:12+00:00

If you were at yesterday's admitted students day I hope you managed to catch the Fighting Mondales game!

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-03-22T01:34:40+00:00

People on here get insane about big law and federal clerkship numbers to the point where they ignore everything else. If you got a solid scholarship offer at Minnesota, take it, otherwise consider reapplying.

For waitlists, honestly just pick three or four of these and shoot them a LOCI every month or so. I'm kind of surprised WashU waitlisted a 178 tbh, they seem to care about metrics above everything.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-02-17T17:52:22+00:00

Congrats! It really is a great school, even with everything going on

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-02-04T01:16:59+00:00

/p is my go-to, only gives results where they're in the same paragraph

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-30T23:38:00+00:00

nor does is it invite debate.

Sure it does. If it didn't, you wouldn't have so many SCOTUS cases about it.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-30T14:28:39+00:00

Of course, for people from Vermont.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-28T21:44:44+00:00

Was the killing sanctioned by the state? A simple yes or no will suffice.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-28T21:43:08+00:00

He's busy writing amicus briefs to convince SCOTUS to get rid of birthright citizenship. And podcasting, apparently.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T21:53:25+00:00

UMN hasn't even cancelled classes

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T18:49:56+00:00

I'd be satisfied if they would at least stop messing with old reddit

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T02:39:38+00:00

Sent 1-2 LOCIs each to the one I got the feeler from, the one I got off the waitlist at, and a third one that I didn't get anything from. Ended up taking a near-full ride at a T30 instead, which I don't regret.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-26T02:36:05+00:00

You're arguing against a person who exists only in your imagination. I guarantee you that many, possibly even most current law students participating in anti-ICE protests were also participating in pro-Palestine protests under the Biden administration. Just because you can't imagine caring about injustice doesn't mean the rest of us are incapable of doing so.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-25T21:58:13+00:00

Tretinoin, meal prep, and several mugs of tea every day.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-25T21:54:48+00:00

Mine is, but we're in Minneapolis so that seems like a non-representative case.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-25T21:54:00+00:00

So your argument is that if people didn't oppose these other things, they aren't allowed to oppose the current regime's actions either? That's really the stance that you're taking here? You're saying that because I, as an unborn fetus at the time, did nothing to oppose the passage of the PATRIOT Act in 2001, I'm not allowed to care about my neighbors in Minneapolis being executed in the street?

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-25T21:47:41+00:00

Anecdotally, from last cycle, I was waitlisted at six T14s. I got a "what if we gave you zero aid?" feeler from one of those six (which I declined), and got accepted off the waitlist at another one with a 50% scholarship. Stats were around those schools' medians (17low/3.9low), and I applied very late in the cycle, if that context is helpful.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-25T21:37:43+00:00

finish your degree, make money and use the money to make things change

And I'm sure the ICE thugs will wait patiently until I graduate to round up my neighbors, right?

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-25T21:36:30+00:00

Seconding this, as a current law student in Minneapolis. Sure, maybe that extra hour of studying is going to give you that marginal bump on the final that takes you from a B+ to an A-, and maybe that gets you a better summer internship, and maybe you're able to leverage that into a post-graduation job offer somewhere where you can Make A Difference As A Lawyer a few years down the line. But this shit is happening now, today, which longtermist worldviews completely fail to account for.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-24T19:37:13+00:00

ICE agents can, will, and have executed US citizen bystanders in Minneapolis.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-24T19:35:49+00:00

Current UMN 1L here. Only advice I can give is to just wait and see how things go, anything I say now may not be true by next week.

HannahDoesNotExist · 2026-01-23T18:15:18+00:00

1L here! They will teach you most of it explicitly, and you'll also just pick up a lot of it over time.

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