agreed on the coldness of the emails- in the end though, no matter how you say it, it's the same thing, right?
my cousin who graduated this past spring was asked to be on admissions committee for this cycle (damn him for not taking the position and helping out the family!

- he explicitly told me that UW plays a numbers game (on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being unimportant and 10 being important, UW ranks the personal statement a 3, lowest ranking out of any of the top law schools)
but, you never know...(and ps- what does "PFO" mean?)
fingers crossed we all get in

(and no need for scholarship, being that it's a state school)