r/LawSchoolAdmissions AMA: Waitlists, Predictions, Loan Caps, Scholarship Reconsideration, & More

About this episode

The episode discusses various aspects of law school admissions, including waitlists, scholarship reconsideration, and predictions for the next cycle.

In this episode of Status Check with Spivey , we take questions from Reddit ! Mike Spivey , Mike Burns , and Anna Hicks-Jaco discuss just how slow this cycle is (10:19) and how that might impact late-cycle applicants (6:47), why law schools place applicants on “holds” (1:23), decision timelines and how/why they vary (4:23), advice for scholarship reconsideration (11:20), whether schools rescind admits or scholarships if you ask for more money (13:31), how the new student loan caps might impact your request for scholarship reconsideration (14:00), whether you should email a school if you haven’t heard from them since you applied early in the cycle (23:44) and whether they might have forgotten about your application (24:44), predictions for next cycle (19:31) and waitlist season this cycle (15:00), the cannonball strategy of law school waitlists (25:50), how important softs are and whether “soft tiers” are admissions pseudoscience (27:48), essays about institutional injustice and how to avoid coming off overly negative in a way that could harm your chances (34:36), advice for becoming an admissions officer (37:40), and more. Resources mentioned in this episode: Blog Post: What…

People in this episode

Guests: Mike Spivey, Mike Burns, Anna Hicks-Jaco

Topics covered

• law school admissions
• waitlists
• scholarship reconsideration
• student loan caps
• application timelines

Keywords

• Reddit AMA
• law school waitlists
• admissions advice
• scholarship advice

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