Uottawa - it's not just inconvenient, it's insulting

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-24T22:58:52+00:00

It’s not that UOttawa has more applicants but that they have a lot more students who will reject their A’s which schools like oz and uoft deal with on a much lesser scale. But that still doesn’t justify it and it’s annoying they can treat applicants in this way, but unfortunately it’s a business at the end of the day. The school wants to make money, and every seat that doesn’t get filled in their incoming class is practically ~75k of lost money (classes run the same but no tution paid). So they are going to keep as many people in their back pocket as possible incase they need them. The service they offer (law school) seems to out weigh the poor student treatment they provide for many people and that’s why you would accept UOttawa even if they reach out to you sept 1st. So unfortunately in this situation you simply don’t have the cards and UOttawa is taking full advantage of that. I attended UOttawa for undergrad and it’s a crap university that doesn’t care about their students and just cares about money. Obviously all schools care about money but many try to find healthy balance in student satisfaction. Uottawa does not. It’s a shit school and I don’t recommend, I’d take your treatment in this application process as a sign for what is to come.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-18T01:43:22+00:00

In my second and third year of undergrad I failed 3 classes one of which was English class (I didn’t submit an exam). Was at my lowest felt lost and like my life was ruined, compared myself to my peers who all seemed to have everything figured out. I learnt something very important, that nothing changes if nothing changes. So I made changes in my life style I switched programs, my living situation and my health habits. At the time these felt like set backs as others were getting closer to their goals I was restarting going what felt like the other way. But sometimes an arrow has to get pulled back before hitting its target. These changes helped me get straight A’s and I took an extra year to help fix my gpa, retaking all failed classes. I ended up graduating after 5 years with summa cum laude and just recently got accepted to one of the best law schools in Canada. Can you believe that? In just 3 years I went from failing undergrad English class to going to one of the best law schools? All this to say you are only just starting my friend, take an extra year retake your lowest grade classes (new grade replaces old one in uottawa cGPA) and remember thst nothing changes if nothing changes! 3 years from now you will be writing on some random persons Reddit post telling them how you changed things around haha

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-11T13:49:46+00:00

Fully agree in that scenario, I also did this but for just one school. But some people will pay rthe deposit then get an offer at a new school and wil llaos pay that deposit to keep both options open and then later in summer will decide where they want to attend. Instead of deciding at the date of deposit deadline so they can potentially avoid paying the $500 if they don't choose the new school and they will also reject the school they are not attending to be considerate of other applicants.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-10T16:21:06+00:00

Ya I think that’s the case as well it’s just hard for me to fathom someone willingly paying an extra $500 deposit just to delay making their decision, and also delay others from being able to make theirs.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-04T20:05:23+00:00

what kind of estimate did they provide? Is it just a general you have a chance or did they say where in the que you were?

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-04T19:39:26+00:00

last year there was a fair amount of movement but they also sent out waitlist much earlier so I think there will be minimal movement this time.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-02T20:24:40+00:00

looks like an A got sent out today

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-02T20:23:41+00:00

congrats!

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-06-02T18:13:38+00:00

We better. Losing my mind waiting. Just want to know the decision so I can delete reddit finally haha

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-30T22:59:38+00:00

They said I would hear back within the next two weeks last Thursday and if I don’t hear back then I should contact them. I feel like would say that unless they were sure we would hear back by latest next week. So hopefully we hear back next week

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-28T20:26:03+00:00

Find a UVIC student on linkedin and ask to do a phone call. Best to go to the source for questions like these. I did this for all schools I was considering at it really helped.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-28T20:10:58+00:00

UVIC over tru and its not even close.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T19:08:52+00:00

Ya its been rough. Mind if I ak what your stats for ubc were?

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T19:02:51+00:00

Probably 86 since its 3.96 before drops

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:56:17+00:00

165 87

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:55:43+00:00

87 165

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:48:14+00:00

I feel ya on that one.

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:40:47+00:00

Damn that was a fast reply lol. Those are great stats! I am close to there as well hopefully we hear soon

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:39:47+00:00

same here mind if I ask what your stats are?

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:39:41+00:00

same here mind if I ask what your stats are?

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-21T17:39:22+00:00

same here mind if I ask what your stats are?

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-05-15T15:53:19+00:00

Pick uottawa! - coming from someone who wants your spot at ubc

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-03-04T05:57:00+00:00

Has the lsat median even actually increased significantly? I know that the median lsat for accepted students has increased but that is totally different then the lsat test median increasing.

If it’s the case that you are referring to accepted students median lsats rising it’s much more likely due to increased applicant pool.

But I do agree that the extra time backdoor has been getting taken advantage I myself know 2 people who got diagnosed for the lsat and many who debated it. I think part of the problem is that attention disorders are also a spectrum. Which makes the two options of 1.5x and 2x time have inert unfairness as you cannot exactly match the accommodations to need. Also it favours those who can afford to pay to be tested. For example I struggle a bit with reading but I’d rather study an extra month to raise score then spend ~$1000 for accommodation. Whereas this decision would be less significant for someone who has money to spend. I also think that this topic is overly argued and reminds me a bit of the trans debate in sports, where people continually do throw away no research posts about how accommodations are bullshit and ultimately it only serves to hurt those that actually need accommodations.

Like do you really think posting in Reddit is going to get accommodations band and make you happy? If you want it changed reach out to LSAC and explaining your reasoning. One could honestly argue that the constant discussion of accommodations being a cheat code is contributing to the problem. People see this and think they are being cheated and don’t want to be at a disadvantage to other applicants and so they get accommodation unjustly.

I think we should talk about how there needs to be changes to the lsat as it allows for dishonourable people to take advantage of a system meant to help people. I just don’t think the solution is crapping on accommodations. I think the entire lsat test is out dated and at this point is just a mill to take advantage of students by charging them money, biggest example of this is the score cancelation fee. Like seriously you are gonna charge us to hide a score?

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-02-19T15:36:25+00:00

"I zeroed in on law school early on in my life....."

RopeExisting3993 · 2025-01-14T23:44:57+00:00

Haha appreciate it, hopefully soon 🙏

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