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AncientAbashedGremlin
Class of 2026
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2022-2023
Result App type FW Resident Schol... Sent Sent raw Received Received raw Complete Complete raw UR UR raw UR2 UR2 raw II II raw Decision Decision raw
999 PT Fordham University Rejected Unknown
32 Arizona State Univer... Rejected Unknown
60 St. John's University Accepted Unknown $205,000
71 Texas Tech University Accepted Unknown $54,000
60 UHouston Accepted RDregular decision $7,500 Dec 21 2022-12-21 Dec 21 2022-12-21 Dec 21 2022-12-21 Jan 31 2023-01-31
40 Washington and Lee U... Rejected Unknown

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Seagulleagle10
15:09
@SuaveCrouton: it's vandy haha but also ik the waitlist is huge so I'm just gonna stay hopeful but know it's probably not gonna happen but it's my top school so hurts like heck.
SuaveCrouton
15:09
@Seagulleagle10: I'm waitlisted there as well with a 162 and 3.0 and I know I have basically 0 chance of getting off it
Seagulleagle10
15:10
Do you know if there is a reason why they choose to have such a large waitlist?
DaBurgHamblerer
15:11
think i will find a more substantive answer on reddit, but is there a real functional difference between chances at clerking coming from UVA v Columbia? I know the odds are tough either way, but i'd really like the option to do so if i perform well in class...
pug
15:11
its to psychologically torture people
GloveDontSplitUMustAcquit
15:11
seagull i will pray for u homie but its looking bleak
SuaveCrouton
15:12
@Seagulleagle10: I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out what benefit they get from waitlisting practically everyone
SuaveCrouton
15:12
I think the only people that got Vandy R's had some serious C&F issues or something
Mountaineer99
15:12
it's just a soft rejection in a lot of cases
legendarytempest
15:13
@DaBurgHamblerer: could you compare what type of clerking they do, like appelate vs lower court to see difference between teh schools
Mountaineer99
15:13
they didn't hate you but didn't like you enough to give a spot
Seagulleagle10
15:14
yeah I haven't been able to figure out why they do it either but oh well best of luck to whoever manages to get off ik there are a lot of qualified candidates
SuaveCrouton
15:14
Yeah but you'd think they'd give people way below both medians the boot, instead they just waitlist us too.
Seagulleagle10
15:14
@GloveDontSplitUMustAcquit: appreciate the prayers homie haha
DaBurgHamblerer
15:15
a good idea, but not sure that info is necessarily wholly available (i.e. anything i find is likely to be largely incomplete)
DaBurgHamblerer
15:17
add to that the noise surrounding NY fed judges' clerk hiring practices (usually have to have worked first, which distorts the data massively) and it's very hard to compare
Seagulleagle10
15:20
@GloveDontSplitUMustAcquit: Maybe given their median and top 25 percentile are both 170 and 3.9+ gp, while their bottom 25% are 163 and 3.6 gpa means that they look for qualified candidates that are willing to go 100% to vandy if accepted.
Seagulleagle10
15:20
idk but based on the stats maybe that's why they waitlist so many people idk
SuaveCrouton
15:21
Vandy has a low yield % because a lot of T-14 applicants use them as a backup, then withdraw when they get into a T-14. Still doesn't explain why they waitlist people wayyyyy below both medians
jb2028
15:22
The 75th percentile is close to the median because it does nothing for a school's ranking, so for schools outside the T3 or T6, admitting "overqualified" applicants (well above median) who require a lot of $ and effort to enroll given their other options is not an efficient way to fill a class or maintain medians
Seagulleagle10
15:23
ah I see thanks for the insight
SuaveCrouton
15:25
https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/u93uly/historical_waitlist_acceptance_rates/
SuaveCrouton
15:26
Vandy seems to have like a 2-3% chance of getting an A off WL
SuaveCrouton
15:26
But also flawed data because many LSD users do not update their waitlists months later
Pandally
15:27
Me sitting over here looking at that W&M WL conversion and hoping I'll be apart of the 31%.
TediousSparrow
15:27
@Pandally: I believe in you!
Seagulleagle10
15:27
So I'm gonna assume maybe 6-7% get off then
Pandally
15:28
@TediousSparrow: ty <3. Can you believe im still delusional? Sooo sad. Lol. At least i can always count on your belief in WL conversion! <3
Seagulleagle10
15:28
welp either a miracle occurs or there is next cycle, unless emory decides miraculously to take me off their waitlist
Pandally
15:28
Although. Ngl. The perfect house came up in Lexington for W&L and I'm tempted to say eff it
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