out at berkeley via status checker, quite possibly the worst means of notification. i feel dirty and cheap.
logickills-
i can't even begin to explain HOW MUCH i agree with you. i was rejected earlier this month (after having gone to committee review only..like..literally 3 weeks before), and the fast-turnaround + online-rejection-I'm-not-even-worth-an-email-or-letterhead?! really put me in the dumps for a few days. i didnt get any work done. damn. i almost want to demand my app fee back.
no love from the west coast....
Why did they do that? I got a letter in the mail. How do these schools decide who they're going to deny and how they're going to deny them? I interned in undergrad admissions after I graduated...I want to do the same in law school. I am so curious about it.
sigh, who knows. i have a question, though, since u've been backstage with an UG admissions office: ARE THEY REALLY *THAT* BUSY?
i mean...i know they're busy. but...on a scale of 1 to 10, 10 being Barack Obama on the campaign trail.
Undergrad admissions is more busy than grad admissions from what I understand, I'd say a 9.5 in comparison to a Barack campaign trail ("10").
But grad admissions hires file readers who do nothing but read files full-time. They really are that busy, even though it doesn't look like it. The law admissions file reader spends anywhere from 15-45 minutes on a file, depending on the content. But you already know that. More complicated files take 1-1.5 hrs, and really complicated ones even more. If they audit/screen your file, then it's about five days with one reader before your file can be passed on to the next reader, b/c they have to talk to your profs and employer. The rest of the readers take the average 15-45 minutes. That's all I know about law admissions.
In undergrad, files get read by more readers at a school like my undergrad. But it's not like they constantly all sit at a table and argue over an applicant, though it does happen on occasion. I processed files, but I was not a reader. And that was Hell; it took forever. I took the internship b/c I thought I wanted to go into univesity administration. Now? No thanks!
Like I said, I'd love to see how they make their decisions, but I wouldn't want it as a career.
Did berkeley send you a followup letter advising you to take advantage of the transfer option? That's what my letter said. I don't care anyways, I'm going to NULaw.
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