The Septimus Notes

Sunday, November 20, 2005

|It's like a magic eye picture.|

If you stare at law school admissions stats long enough (sort, re-sort, by sent date, LSAT score, complete date, applied date, GPA, etc.), things start to become clear, defined, predictable.

IF I am getting into Georgetown University Law Center (Why not "School"? You got me.), then the glorious letter with the oh so friendly hand-written note from Dean Cornblatt should be put in the mail next Monday and given the proximity of D.C. to Paris (or NYC, not being quite sure where it will be sent) sociopolitically, I expect that IF I am getting into Georgetown that I will have a letter from them in my mailbox by Saturday, Dec. 3rd.

Am I jinxing myself? Probably not. There are the following caveats:

1) A top law school with my GPA? That's already not likely.
2) Being black is a constant source of vexation for predictions. In fact, someone has gotten in with a lower LSAT score than myself so far, but apparently his extracurriculars are off the charts. He declined to list them. Of the other URM (that's the new "colored" if you didn't know) applicants with scores in my LSAT/GPA range, one has not gone complete at GULC yet (so he can't hear back) and the other has not heard back.
3) Just because I do not get a letter now, it does not necessarily mean that the letter I get from GULC later in December will be a rejection. (Is this third one a caveat?)

I will know if my prediction for next week will be right based on how my predictions for other applicants this week turn out.

Stay tuned.

promulgated by SWS2.1 at 19:20.
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