I forgot

to mention that I got more fee waivers! One from the University of Illinois, one from UCLA, and the one I'm really excited about, one from Vanderbilt! That's four schools I can apply to for free! Except for what the applications cost me in sanity and brain cells.

But who needs either of those? I mean, seriously.

Long time, no post!

So, since my last post I have signed up with Kaplan's Admission Counseling program. Basically, you're hooked up with someone who helps people with their applications every year and know what they're doing. Talking with my counselor was a real ego boost because he mentioned schools that "wouldn't be a waste of money to apply to," that I had at least a long shot at, and they were schools I ruled out long ago. (Boalt? probably not, but thanks for saying so. I almost laughed when he said Stanford.) And my "target" schools? Well, he said I could do better. Which...I'll still apply to them, but it felt nice to hear that from someone who does this every year.

Updates

So, I have decided to go with the Kaplan consulting services. I was hesitant to commit to a service, especially before going on vacation, but now I'm back and have no excuses. Some schools start accepting applications this Saturday! Ahhhhh!

Also, scratch UT off my list. In light of recent events, that I won't address here because that is not what this blog is about, I can not go to law school in Texas. I just can't. So they're off the list. Well, that's one down!

And then there were...still too many

So I think I can take a few schools off my list. They're good safeties, but I don't need 900 safeties, and they're schools I wouldn't be too thrilled about attending if I got in, so off they come! They are:

University of Connecticut
University of North Carolina
University of Maryland
Wake Forest

Schools that will most likely be removed in the future before apps are due:

University of Oregon
Notre Dame
Fordham (?)
Boston College (I don't need to apply to BC and BU)

Anyway, that's where it stands now. I got a planner just for law school stuff, but it doesn't start until August so I can't use it yet! Oh no! If you knew my office supply addiction, you'd know how hard this is for me!

The First Of (Hopefully) Many Fee Waivers

I found out that William and Mary gave out fee waivers to pretty much anyone with an LSAT over 165. Hey, that's me! Why didn't I get one? Who knows, but I emailed them about it and they said to email the dean with proof of my LSAT score and they would send me one. Which is neat.

However, I have to do a paper application. Which kinda sucks, because I was looking forward to only having to send my LORs and all that to only one place. So, I'll probably apply, but it won't be the first place I worry about.

I hope I get more waivers, cause at 70 bucks a pop, it's kinda hard to apply to too many. But I need to, as a splitter. I'm concerned I won't get many, since I took the December LSAT last year, which they count for last cycle. So I'm afraid they'll think I'm not applying this fall. Though I did take the June one, which is for this cycle...

Schools...and stuff.

Ok, I'm going to try to list all the schools I'm even vaguely looking at. I'm sure I wont' think of them all, and will have to go home, glance at my enormo notebook, and update this post, but here goes. (Alphabetically, not desirability)
Boston College
Boston University
University of California - Los Angeles
University of Chigaco
Columbia University (auto reject, here I come!)
University of Connecticut (but not really, I'm pretty sure. Big safety)
Cornell University
Duke (mainly for Rick)
Fordham University
Georgetown University
University of Illinois
University of Iowa
University of Maryland
University of Michigan (on the fence on this one)
University of Minnesota
University of North Carolina(but again, I don't think so)
New York University
Northwestern University (it's in Chicago, not Kirkland)
Notre Dame University
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania (private. tricky, no?)
Seattle University (local safety, if they don't yield protect me)
University of Texas
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia (maybe?)
Wake Forest University (although that's really more a product of I haven't taken them out of my notebook yet.)
University of Washington (instate)
Washington University in St. Louis
College of William and Mary
University of Wisconsin


Also, I'm still looking at admissions consultants. Part of me is hesitant because I think "I didn't have any amazing extracurriculars, and my gpa didn't exactly have an upward trend after I started working, and I have nothing to say in a personal statement. Those consultants are going to laugh and laugh at me." But then I shape up and think "better them than the adcoms." So now I have to pick one. Bugger.