Harvard Law c/o 2020 Waitlist Forum

[lauren22]

From the HLS Waitlist website:

"If your application has been selected for the waitlist, this means that you are clearly a strong applicant to Harvard Law School. If, however, you believe additional materials or information would strengthen your application, you are welcome to send additions to your file. A one-page letter of continued interest or substantive resume update are good examples of relevant additions to your file. Please note that we generally advise against submitting additional letters of recommendation."

When is a good time to send in LOCI? Is it the sooner the better?

[yhchoi1687]

Testing a hypothesis of mine:

Did anyone who first found out about their WL by checking their status eventually get an email about their changed status from HLS?

I haven't. What are your thoughts?

I'm wondering if an email only goes out to people who haven't viewed their most recent status update after X minutes/hours, sort of like a "you have unread messages" reminder.

Think some people got it after checking their status checker. I don't have any alternative theories though...

Could be their sneaky idea to sort out people who are really interested in going Harvard...who regularly check the status checker lol.
I haven't received the email yet either.

[sittykitty]

From the HLS Waitlist website:

"If your application has been selected for the waitlist, this means that you are clearly a strong applicant to Harvard Law School. If, however, you believe additional materials or information would strengthen your application, you are welcome to send additions to your file. A one-page letter of continued interest or substantive resume update are good examples of relevant additions to your file. Please note that we generally advise against submitting additional letters of recommendation."

When is a good time to send in LOCI? Is it the sooner the better?

I think the prevailing wisdom is to send one as soon as you can, as long as you've taken the time to write a thoughtful and proofread LOCI. FWIW I sent one earlier since I hadn't heard anything since I applied, so I'm going to wait a month or so until right before review to send another one.

[ZVBXRPL]

Does anyone have an estimate on how many applicants get waitlisted each year?

[HarvardHopeful95]

Checking in, JSNone. Does anyone have any clue whether JS1s have an advantage over JSNones when getting in off the waitlist?

[ZVBXRPL]

Checking in, JSNone. Does anyone have any clue whether JS1s have an advantage over JSNones when getting in off the waitlist?

Curious about this also!

[enoca]

Checking in, JSNone. Does anyone have any clue whether JS1s have an advantage over JSNones when getting in off the waitlist?

From last year's thread:

- Pre-waitlist JS1 > no pre-waitlist JS1
- Post-waitlist JS1 > pre-waitlist JS1

Don't know what that's based on, though.

[Rigo]

Checking in, JSNone. Does anyone have any clue whether JS1s have an advantage over JSNones when getting in off the waitlist?

From last year's thread:

- Pre-waitlist JS1 > no pre-waitlist JS1
- Post-waitlist JS1 > pre-waitlist JS1

Don't know what that's based on, though.

Makes sense logically.

[jjcorvino]

Does anyone know if they do any new JS1s in April?

[seeprybyrun]

Does anyone know if they do any new JS1s in April?

From everything I've seen, there's usually no WL movement at all until after the first deposit deadline.

[Rigo]

Does anyone know if they do any new JS1s in April?

From everything I've seen, there's usually no WL movement at all until after the first deposit deadline.

Anyone know when the deadline is?

[jjcorvino]

Does anyone know if they do any new JS1s in April?

From everything I've seen, there's usually no WL movement at all until after the first deposit deadline.

Anyone know when the deadline is?

Pretty sure it is May 1.

[Rigo]

Pretty sure it is May 1.

Cool thanks. We have a month to convince every admit that Harvard is a shithole

[seeprybyrun]

Pretty sure it is May 1.

Cool thanks. We have a month to convince every admit that Harvard is a shithole

Be very careful to keep your LOCI and your messages to Harvard admits separate

[jjcorvino]

Pretty sure it is May 1.

Cool thanks. We have a month to convince every admit that Harvard is a shithole

This might just be a rumor, but I heard Harvard supports Trump. #boycottHarvard Harvard I just kidding

[enoca]

If you end up in the same class as Tiffany, you are basically a collaborator, and will be treated as such by the tribunals. FYI.

[Rigo]

If you end up in the same class as Tiffany, you are basically a collaborator, and will be treated as such by the tribunals. FYI.

[seeprybyrun]

If you end up in the same class as Tiffany, you are basically a collaborator, and will be treated as such by the tribunals. FYI.

Is she going to HLS? I never heard one way or the other.

[Rigo]

If you end up in the same class as Tiffany, you are basically a collaborator, and will be treated as such by the tribunals. FYI.

Is she going to HLS? I never heard one way or the other.

I don't think we will know until orientation.

[Mikey]

if tiff goes to H, someone should get with her so they can say they got with trump

[chandhi]

Just withdrew from the waitlist - good luck, all!

[seeprybyrun]

Just withdrew from the waitlist - good luck, all!

Nos morituri te salutamus!

Made a decision where you'll go yet?

[chandhi]

Just withdrew from the waitlist - good luck, all!

Nos morituri te salutamus!

Made a decision where you'll go yet?

Not *officially* but I can tell you I'm applying for apartments in Ann Arbor

[eck456]

If you end up in the same class as Tiffany, you are basically a collaborator, and will be treated as such by the tribunals. FYI.

I put this in the original thread, but I know someone who's teaching Malia next year and they said the reason she deferred H for undergrad last year was it took a year to do all the security checks for housing, her section, TAs and profs, etc. and they set her schedule the year in advance. my guess is if tiffany is coming to HLS (or wherever) she'll do a gap year while the secret service interviews everyone and secures housing and stuff. now, one could argue Malia is publicly probably more valuable to Obama than Tiffany has appeared to Trump (and she's older and has lived apart from him like forever), but it seems a little weird to me they would do it for one president's daughter and not the other. my bet is if she's at HLS, it'll be c/o 2021

[Rigo]

if tiff goes to H, someone should get with her so they can say they got with trump

I'm gonna ask her to law prom.