Depressing? Heck, I'm excited to be here honestly!

I'll likely be riding it out most of the summer.

In most cases, you want to send your LOCI as quickly after getting waitlisted/deferred (especially if you were deferred) as possible. You don’t want to sacrifice quality for speed, so spend some time on the letter but send it off as soon as you are happy with the finished product.

If you were waitlisted, it’s a good idea to call the admissions office and ask when they will start reviewing waitlisted applicants. If they tell you they won’t start reviewing waitlisted files until April or May, you can take your time and send the LOCI so that it reaches by April 1 or May 1. The benefit of waiting until the deadline is that not only does it give you more time to write the letter but there is also a chance that something new will happen to you that you can write about. You can also be proactive and visit the school, sit in a class, and talk to students and write about the experience in your LOCI.

checking in, no idea what im doing yet...maybe you should add a poll with waitlist options

Also (pleasantly surprised to be) WLed. Just curious--where did we get the 100 person waitlist number? I need to know in case someone I'm bragging to asks.

In the recent past we have admitted an average of ten people from the waitlist each year, with the actual number of offers ranging from zero to twenty from a pool of less than 100 files.

checking in.....debating about an LOCI. whats the genera consensus?

Checking in, long-time lurker. Don't know what sort of new info you could put into a LOCI other than, obviously, CI....unless you've cured cancer since applying.

Have you cured cancer since applying?

Yes

So 10 years from now if someone asks me at a cocktail party where I went to law school I guess I will respond with, "Oh, I was waitlisted at Yale."