Timing

10 May 2015

Know Your Waitlist Movement Dates (Part I)

Wouldn’t it be awesome to know when schools will look to take applicants off of the waitlist? You could hold off on the status checker for a few days/weeks (remember, a few years ago someone checked their GULC status checker more than 1200 in one day!) Even better, you could reach out to the school about your interest right around when they will be looking at taking people. If only we knew… …wait, we do know! May 15th marks the first Seat Deposit Overlap Report. Among others things (eg: “hey yo

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01 Dec 2013

HELP! Must I take the LSAT in Dec. or can I take the Feb. LSAT and still apply this cycle?

I get this question from a lot of clients and with growing frequency in emails and private messages on Top-Law-Schools.com.  Some of the lack of clarity in a binary “yes” or “no” answer derives from the unavoidable fact that there  are two prominent variables that cannot categorically be accountedfor,  namely individual applicant bias and school bias. But let me try to explain some macro level road-map guidelines that should help. In the go-go years of huge application volumes and increases, ta

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18 Nov 2013

Pressure Points in Contacting Admissions: Professional Persistence versus Pestering?

The hardest part of the admissions cycle is the wait. For many it is worse than logic games, worse than filling out applications, dropdown boxes, questions that you have to answer that you should not have to (e.g. has anyone influenced your decision to attend our law school, yes or yes?), etc. The wait only gets intensified when others start hearing from your dream school and you are, well, waiting. What is more, if you are applying to law school you are likely a proactive person. You WANT to b

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15 Aug 2013

It's application season! (T/30 application release dates dates) Edit: NOW T/50 Law Schools.

By school: Yale1-OctHarvard15-SepStanford1-SepColumbia1-SepChicago15-AugNYU15-SepPenn1-Sep UVA1-SepBerkeley1-SepMichigan Ann Arbor1-SepDuke1-SepNorthwestern1-SepCornell 15-AugGeorgetown10-SepUT Austin1-SepVanderbilt1-SepUCLA1-SepUSC Gould1-Sep Minnesota Twin Cities1-SepWashington University STL1-SepGeorge Washington1-Oct Alabama1-SepEmory1-SepNotre Dame1-OctIndiana Bloomington1-SepIowa1-SepWashington and Lee1-SepU Washington1-OctArizona State1-SepBoston University1-SepBoston College15-SepUNC Ch

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14 Aug 2013

How about applying early(er) in the cycle. Did it ever help? Does it help now?

Again, from the website and work of Daniel Planview aka elterrible78 on top-law-schools.com @http://admissionsbythenumbers.blogspot.com/ . All of the same disclaimers apply to my most recent blog, (As in the last blog I have edited down a small amount of his posts)  and I will provide a separate post interpreting this and projecting forward by 8/15/2013. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- First, a little explanation.  In organizing the data, I bro

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01 Aug 2013

Admissions deadlines for 2013/14 by law school rank (T-100)

*Subject to change by school. A small number of these were “best guesses” from the admissions offices of the respective schools. Yale15-MarHarvard1-FebStanford1-FebColumbia15-FebChicago1-FebNYU15-FebPenn1-Mar UVA1-MarBerkeley1-FebMichigan Ann Arbor31-MarDuke15-FebNorthwestern1-MarCornell 1-FebGeorgetown1-MarUT Austin1-MarVanderbilt1-AprUCLA1-FebUSC Gould1-Feb Minnesota Twin Cities1-AprWashington University STL1-AprGeorge Washington1-Mar Alabama(rolling)Emory1-MarNotre Dame15-MarIndiana Blooming

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16 Apr 2013

Mistake #4: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

See previous – Mistake #5: "Oxymoronic" LSAT Advice [https://spiveyconsulting.ghost.io/mistake-5-oxymoronic-lsat-advice/] Update 3/27/2020 There is nothing more difficult in the admissions process than being wait-listed. For 175+ years as a company we have seen students in law school admissions who have been admitted, wait-listed and denied, and they nearly universally express that the denial was easier than languishing on a wait-list for a drawn-out period. The irony is that just about every

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