<p>parabella-- good to know</p>
<p>It’s pretty common for law students to swap summer housing. So, student A living in Boston but with a job in LA will just trade with student B living in LA but with a job in Boston. Works out well for everyone.</p>
<p>OK–we’ve discussd merit application fee waivers and housing option. What is the situation with text books? Are used onc sfrom 2L and 3L’s usually available for purchase? What other options are there?</p>
<p>I’ll bet in the x law class of 2016 facebook group there are current 2L’s offering used textbooks. I know my D picked some up last year that way.</p>
<p>They even may throw in some notes and outlines together with the books. S preferred to do his own, but some people find them useful. On TLS(top-law-schools.com) there are some helpful threads on the Ask Student or Graduate forum.</p>
<p>Son emailed last night. Apparently the June 2013 LSAT pool was down 3% over June of 2012. October 2013 LSAT pool was down 13% over 2012.</p>
<p>If the percentage reduction in LSAT takers translates to a similar reduction in law school applicants, the number of law school applicants is what it was in 1985 from what he sent me.</p>
<p>but more importantly for top law schools, is that the number of high scorers is down even more than the general population of testers. Thus, schools at the top of the food chain are having to pay to keep their LSAT numbers, while schools way down the line are literally begging for students:</p>
<p>Stats at Hofstra Law, for example, has dropped like a rock: LSAT down to 155 (59%) from 159 (74%). GPA dropped from ~3.58 to ~3.14. Even with those declining numbers, Hofstra is still down 150 students per class from just two years ago.</p>
<p>I saw a discussion that assuming 53,000 applicants, if “the very top” law schools have just under 1000 students in a first year class, that over 1/2 the students would have to have a LSAT score of no higher than 98.5 percentile this year.</p>
<p>Does that seem accurate?</p>
<p>If by “very top” you mean YHS, their classes add up to something under 1000 students. But yes, I think there will be significant opportunities for 169s and 170s that weren’t there 5 years ago.</p>
<p>Columbia, a lot of folks’ #4, just saw its median slip to 171…</p>
<p>Last cycle 2012/13 test takers for 2013 admission</p>
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<p>[ABA</a> Applicant Data for 2012/13 cycle | Spivey Consulting](<a href=“http://spiveyconsulting.com/blog/aba-applicant-data-for-201213-cycle/]ABA”>http://spiveyconsulting.com/blog/aba-applicant-data-for-201213-cycle/)</p>
<p>Even a 15% drop in 175-180 in the 2013/14 cycle will take the number of those applicants to around 460.</p>
<p>I wanted to come back and thank several posters concerning Duke Law’s Priority Track. S used that as the test case for his application and got accepted. </p>
<p>Question: Some info I read on Harvard Law indicated that it averaged about 2 months from the application going complete until notification and that the Winter break pushed notification of some apps filed after October into January. Any of you recall your son or daughter’s experience with an application to Harvard complete in late October/early December?</p>
<p>Same (generally) with other T 14 schools? How long after the application was complete until you heard something?</p>
<p>I have read at the Yale website that March is about as early as they roll out acceptances. Was that what you experienced?</p>
<p>My D sent in her application to schools early November last year after receiving her LSAT score. She interviewed with Harvard second week in December and was admitted the following week via telephone. That was her best Christmas gift. Columbia has a set date in January when notices are sent out via US mail. Her Yale acceptance came in first week in February via a phone call after 9 pm. As far as I can gather, the timing of Yale iacceptance is unpredictable given that the process relies on evaluation from three independent faculty members for most students.</p>
<p>depends on the stats, 07dad.</p>
<p>If your son is above Harvard’s 75th, then he is a near lock for acceptance. Since every school outside of HYS care about yield, schools like Penn and Uva will likely WL without a strong, convincing “Why xx LS essay.” (They can read the numbers and recognize, like we do, that since H is highly likely, they will lose in the cross-admit battle.)</p>
<p>here is S’s timeline from 2 years ago.</p>
<p>University of Pennsylvania F graph Accepted 10/31/11 12/16/11<br>
University of Chicago F graph Accepted 10/11/11 01/13/12<br>
Harvard University graph Accepted A 10/13/11 11/21/11<br>
Columbia University graph Accepted 09/13/11 01/27/12<br>
University of Virginia F graph Accepted 09/15/11 01/25/12
University of Michigan Ann Arbor F graph Accepted 10/12/11 11/10/11<br>
University of California Los Angeles F graph Accepted 09/30/11 11/09/11<br>
Northwestern University F graph Accepted 10/21/11 12/21/11<br>
New York University F graph Accepted 11/02/11 12/12/11<br>
Georgetown University F graph Accepted 10/11/11 11/14/11<br>
Duke University F graph Accepted 09/19/11 09/29/11<br>
University of Washington graph Accepted 10/20/11 12/13/11<br>
Boston University F graph Accepted 10/04/11 12/05/11 </p>
<p>The dates are Application Complete and Acceptance Date</p>
<p>UVA took forever and responded only after he sent an e-mail wondering what happened to his application.</p>
<p>He had his HLS interview on 11/7</p>
<p>I hope it helps.</p>
<p>Thanks for the details.</p>
<p>parabella–</p>
<p>My S received his HLS interview request this last Monday. His interview is next Wednesday. All interviews are now conducted by Skype. There are 4 admission officers listed on the HLS website as the people who conduct the interviews. All are female. My S says that the communications from HLS does not identify which person will conduct the interview. </p>
<p>Did your son mention anything specific about his HLS interview that you care to share?</p>
<p>Wow, Skype, things have changed!
S had a phone interview with Jessica Soban, dean of Admissions. She called in the middle of a lesson he was teaching, which started the conversation about his current job and such. Interview lasted about 10 min, she seemed very nice and personable.</p>
<p>Para Bella. Thanks. They started doing the interviews by Skype last year according to what I find on the Internet and the Harvard website. It is generally agreed that this is a little better at least the time for the interview is established in advance.</p>
<p>There was the December 2013 LSAT this last weekend. I don’t know if it was cancelled/rescheduled due to the weather in some parts of the country. It will be interesting to see if the trend to fewer and fewer test takers continues. I’ll post once I find out.</p>