<p>My DS got his ED acceptance from U VA Law School yesterday...we're very excited.</p>
<p>Anyone else have good news so we can share the celebrations?</p>
<p>Congratulations! That is wonderful news and a fantastic law school. Please tell your son to remember his softball mitt when he heads down to C-ville. The law students there take their softball very seriously!</p>
<p>Congrats! D's not going to be a player until next year. But I can see that this is a much quicker process than UG admissions. Seems like kids start applying early October and acceptances start by late October at some schools.</p>
<p>Great ED admission and the UVA experience is supposed to be great (and alot warmer than Ithaca. I noticed on your post on the parents site, your son will be graduating Cornell).
Can't understand why these Cornell kids want to go to warmer climates.<br>
I think my kid is longingly thinking Duke-UCLA-Vandy and even Georgetown. Anything south of Pa sounds good to her too.<br>
Best wishes.</p>
<p>Yea for your son!! Ch'ville is lovely all year.</p>
<p>Would you mind sharing his stats and something about his undergrad school? PM would be fine if you prefer. Appreciate it.<br>
Congrats!</p>
<p>MOZOLTOV!!! InterestedMother that's great. UVA is one great school.</p>
<p>Congrats to your son as we come into this season of Thanksgiving. UVA is a great school and from what I have heard their law students are also very happy campers.</p>
<p>One more thing to celebrate as you get together with your loved ones.</p>
<p>Happy to share DS' stats...he got a 166 on his LSAT and has a 3.96 GPA (thru 6 semesters plus a summer)...he worked on 3 different majors throughout his undergrad years...biology (for one year he considered himself pre-med and took organic chem, physics, etc), government and theatre...about mid-way thru second semester of junior year he decided he was "done" with undergrad and opted to finish one degree in 7 semesters rather than 2 in 8 or 3 in 9...so he graduates 12/20...theatre arts was the one he was closest to finishing, so that's his degree (specialty is computerized lighting)...his personal statement was about his "journey" with lighting stage shows thru the bio/government tracks...he thinks ED and being an in-stater helped, as did his high GPA...his LSAT was a bit on the low side...( U VA medians last year were 167/25% - 171/75%)</p>
<p>He loved Cornell (Ithaca not so much)...don't think the cold bothers him overmuch...he thought about "holding out" for a big city law school, but U VA just really appealed to him...enough that he decided if he could get an ED admit he'd be thrilled to go there and would cheerfully give up his other choices (if they offered him admission)...he also applied EA to Cornell, and to Georgetown, Penn, U Mich, Duke, NOrthwestern, Wm & Mary, UCLA and George Washington...of course, now he must withdraw his apps from the other 9, since he got the ED admission from U VA...we'll never know if he'd get in to the others...</p>
<p>We're from the DC area, so I suspect the weather in C'ville will be familiar as it's not all that different from Falls Church (home)...but very much different from upstate NY! I'd be pretty surprised if weather was any kind of factor, tho...</p>
<p>You're very right, marny1, about the law school app process being soooo different from undergrad! Law school admission is MUCH more numbers-driven, and answers can come much more quickly (they're pretty much all rolling admissions as far as I can tell)...still very high stress (particularly since DS' choices included some reaches), but much shorter in duration and much less "crap shoot" in nature!</p>
<p>Anyone else have celebrations to share???</p>
<p>So is he an in state applicant for Virginia? You definitely made my day since my son is a theatre/Spanish/ history major at Northwestern University. So your DS's theatre/government majors are close enough to give us hope.</p>
<p>Yes, we're in-state for U VA ... from DS' research (from which I borrow liberally!) and my own less extensive reading, an applicant's UG degree doesn't matter all that much...the most important factor is LSAT, next most is GPA--LSAT matters a lot more than GPA (unless it's way above the school's 75th percentile, and even then only at some schools...a high LSAT can "cure" a "bit low" GPA, but a high GPA won't "cure" a "bit low" LSAT at a lot of the top law schools)..."soft factors" like ECs, letters of rec, personal statement matter...but not all that much (I've read the figure 10% a lot)...so I don't think your son needs to worry at all about his choice of degree! </p>
<p>Is he in the application process now? Or is it still to come? Does he have an LSAT score yet? </p>
<p>Good luck to him; hope we read celebratory news about him real soon!</p>
<p>No, he is only in his second year. He has a strong preference for attending Northwestern University School of Law, but Northwestern recommends two years of work experience before applying to their law school. The law school is located with the medical school on a separate campus in Chicago's top shopping & dining area, the Magnificent Mile, which looks out onto Lake Michigan. Most likely he will attempt to get into Juilliard's certificate acting program (3% acceptance rate) after graduating Northwestern & before applying to law school. And that is why I was overjoyed to see a theatre major accepted to such a prestigious law school. Congratulations!</p>
<p>In-state tuition at UVA and ED with a 166 LSAT. Definitely a very smart move. </p>
<p>I hope you are all going back to Cornell for May graduation services. It was a truly wonderful experience.<br>
ps- if you don't have a hotel room for graduation, they have a lottery for dorm rooms in February (?) or thereabouts. And restaurants will start taking graduation dinner reservations right after New Years.<br>
the planning one has to do -- (but I kinda miss it all)</p>
<p>Marny1, we are in fact going back in May for DS' graduation...by pure blind luck I found a hotel room through the Sat night prior to graduation on SUnday...quite likely we'll head for home (or at least I will) after graduation...we'll do our celebrating ahead of time (since I can't get a hotel room for graduation night)...</p>
<p>I have lots of nostalgic feelings watching DS' Cornell years wind down ... he's generous about sharing his friends w/me (several of them seem like "almost kids" of mine!); I'll miss them...I always stay in the same hotel for my once-per-semester visits (to take the college kids out to eat!), and I found myself slightly moist-eyed when I checked out last month, likely for the last time...</p>
<p>His college years went faster than all 18 of his childhood years...</p>
<p>I grew up in Chgo, ColdWInd, and am quite familiar w/Northwestern (including its downtown campuses) as a result (went to high school just four blocks from the Evanston undergrad campus)...I don't blame your son for wanting to stay there for law school...my DS applied to Northwestern, too...but that LSAT of his is a point or two too low, and he didn't want work years prior to finishing school...so Northwestern was one of his reaches...and now we'll never know if he'd have gotten in...</p>
<p>Good luck to your DS with his theatre ambitions...Chgo/Northwestern is a great place for a theatre kid to be!</p>
<p>Excellent. I think theater/music majors do well with law school admissions. A number of the performance majors at Rice got good law school acceptances.
My son is also at an Ivy and will be applying for law school next year (he's a junior now). He also was going to graduate a semester early but decided against it because there are a couple of things he wants to do- an honors thesis being one of them. Besides, why not spend as much money as possible? :) UVA is on his list. I think he is ready to get out of the north, although he will be applying to my law school alma mater, UChicago. He is very interested in it except for the weather.</p>
<p>Congrats for UVA! I applied regular decision...so I probably won't know for awhile.</p>
<p>Congratulations on the UVA acceptance.</p>
<p>Northwestern Law was one of my favorites from visiting. The area is really good and the law school was just renovated. I applied there without 2 years experience so I guess it will be harder for me. So far I'm in at Georgetown (which I think I would like) and still waiting on everything else.</p>
<p>Can I share? My S was admitted to Duke Law School yesterday. He submitted his application on October 11 for regular decision. It's really great to know he has an acceptance under his belt. It reminds me of those rolling decision applications back in the undergraduate process.</p>
<p>Congratulations to your son, runnersmom. I still remember getting that first acceptance letter, and it was wonderful to know that I had made it. Best of luck to your son!</p>
<p>My kid got into MI State and we are thrilled for him! Stats clearly not in the range of the OP's kid, but lots of very strong soft factors. The kid is incredibly happy. Getting that first acceptance is a spectacular moment!</p>
<p>congrats runnersmom and neonzeus and of course Interested mother- your kids did real good. I'm sure the first acceptance gives a wonderful and exciting lift to the process.</p>
<p>how are our cc students doing on the admission front?? Please chime in with your good news too. I believe one of our not too regular posters had good news (saw it on top law schools) so I hope she comes on board to share her good news with us too.</p>