Wait, Wait, Please DO Tell Me: Your Waitlist Survival Guide

Wait, Wait, Please DO Tell Me: Your Waitlist Survival Guide

So you’ve been waitlisted. You’re probably in good company, with a 21% spike in law school applications this year. But what does this all mean?

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So you’ve been waitlisted. You’re probably in good company, with a 21% spike in law school applications this year. But what does this all mean?

Is “on the waitlist” a nice way of saying no, or a strong maybe? And how’s a prospective law student supposed to plan for the next three years of their life, if law schools string them along for months without a firm answer? Branden & Jelena answer your burning questions about this fraught stage of the application process.

Listen and learn . . .

  1. Why you were waitlisted, and what does "waitlisted" mean, anyway?
  2. When to send (or not send) letters of continued interest
  3. How long you can expect to spend on the waitlist
  4. Whether waitlisting means you’re out of luck for scholarships
  5. How ranked lists and priority lists affect your likelihood of admission
  6. Why schools use waitlists
  7. How to cope emotionally with the hot-and-cold struggle of a summer on the waitlist
  8. Which The Legal Level host is a waitlist success story (it’s still Branden)

Links and Further Resource from this Episode:

LSAC Final-Ish Current Volume Summary: https://report.lsac.org/VolumeSummary.aspx


The National Jurist’s Guide to Surviving Waitlists: https://bit.ly/2OpTaah


Two Deans Speak About Why They Waitlist Students: https://bit.ly/3fKRa7O


33 Common LSAT Flaws, Available Now in Paperback & Kindle Formats: http://bit.ly/33CommonFlaws


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Jelena Woehr

Jelena Woehr

Jelena was born & raised in Golden, CO. There she cut her teeth on logic by getting into, then out of, an impressive amount of trouble. When not organizing student protests or lobbying the school board, Jelena competed in equestrian sports & constitutional debate. Jelena took the June 2017 LSAT, partly out of curiosity and partly because she developed a serious Logic Games addiction. After three months of study, Jelena achieved a score of 178. While she didn't end up falling in love with law school, she did find herself really enjoying the LSAT—so much that she left her previous career in tech startups behind and began teaching. Jelena prides herself on helping her students understand not just the systems and methods they can apply to get a good score, but the underlying logic & its applicability to the challenge of learning to think like a law student. Outside of her work with the LSAT, Jelena is a writer, creative content producer, & a competitive equestrian endurance rider.

Branden Frankel

Branden Frankel

In 2000, Branden graduated with a BA in Philosophy from UC Santa Barbara. For a few years after, he cast about in vain for entry-level philosopher positions, but, when he was visited by the Ghost of Student Loans Past, he knew it was time to make a change. In June 2006, Branden took the LSAT, scoring a 175. Thereafter, he attended UCLA School of Law, graduating in 2010 and practicing patent law for several years. Since 2013, he has taught dozens of live LSAT classes and tutored scores of successful test takers. When he's not considering the finer points of a particularly tricky Logical Reasoning question or kicking it with his daughter, Branden writes Science Fiction. You can find him after work at the local Starbucks, typing furiously, then deleting what he typed, then typing more, and so on for hours.


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