American Waitlist Thread

[stephster416]

Waitlisted with a 166 and a 3.9...   weird considering I've gotten into Cornell, BU & Fordham. Oh well, wasn't a top choice anyway, already withdrew.

[drleather2001]

^ That is truly bizarre.

[arich24]

So, the waitlist letter says something along the lines of emailing your admissions consellor with a LOCI (sorry I don't have the letter in front of me)...but I've heard that the correct way is to snail mail?!  Any opinions on that?

[mconnett]

I just got my WL letter as well (3.81/166) - and I'm going to drop as well. Of the 3 schools that I haven't gotten into yet (Michigan, Vandy, American), I have been waitlisted everytime. This makes me wonder how large the wait-list pools are for each school. Does anyone have a sense of that? (A person I spoke with at Vanderbilt said the wait-list pool was a few hundred, or roughly the size of the entering class.)

[ahsidib]

I emailed my LOCI to my admissions counselor (somewhere on the website it lists the counselor by alphabetical order)

I got a response within an hour from him saying he would forward it to the adcomm.

[Amistad]

In the words of some other clever LSDer

I wipe my ass with waitlists. And American's too.

[brochill17]

Waitlisted with a 166 and a 3.9...   weird considering I've gotten into Cornell, BU & Fordham. Oh well, wasn't a top choice anyway, already withdrew.

I had a weird waitlist too, was wondering what the deal was- I have a 3.8 and 169, accepted at Columbia, Boalt, Georegtown,  and UCLA so I don't think it was problem with the application....but not good enough for American? Didn't want to go there but thought it was odd to be wl'ed

[arich24]

After ALOT of deliberation, I withdrew...just now from the waitlist.  American is just TOO expensive for me to enjoy a good/healthy quality of life...especially when schools of equal international law status have taken me with $$.  Good luck to all..start scrounging up your pennies:)

[logflume]

reading all of these posts, the waitlisting process at WCL seems really arbitrary.  prior to taking the LSAT, american was the school i was most interested in.  then i got my lsat score back and only got a 156   couple that with a sub-3.0 gpa and i wasn't even going to apply.  my GF nagged me into it, saying "you never know".  the only reason i can think i was even waitlisted is that i am a non-trad with 13 years of work experience and an interesting story to tell.  but still.

anyhow, sent in two email LOCIs - one right after getting my letter, another one on 4/1, the day after the app deadline.  i'm visiting on 4/14 and will follow up with another written LOCI after my visit.  plus, i am submitting another LOR.  i hope all of these things help.  they must have liked something about me as an applicant to even waitlist me with such terrible #s (i'm not a URM if anyone was wondering.)  wish me luck!  and best of luck to the rest of you!  hopefully i'll see some of you in the fall

[snowpeach06]

Bump.

I got waitlisted at American and would love to go. I'm planning on visiting, but does anyone know if I should just write my LOCI now, after I visit, or both? How do I walk the line of showing my interest without being annoying about it?