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Waitlist 2024
Was waitlisted on April 29th Applied special consideration Have a few years volunteering then working with a firm. I also worked part time throughout my undergrad. Excellent LOR from professor and retired attorney general. This is my first cycle applying and I just graduated from my undergrad in December. Letter grade from TRU: A- LSAT: 156, 157 OLSAS CGPA: 3.27 CGPA at my University: 3.40/4.33 L2: 3.52 B2: 3.61 -
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Waitlist 2024
ive been accepted to windsor single JD but just chiming in this feed to let the waitlisters know im still waiting to hear back from three schools. if i hear back from any of those ill be declining my spot at windsor. hang in there yall! -
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Accepted 2024
Accepted off the waitlist today. Position #26. -
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Accepted 2024
Just got the A. Waitlist position 18. Will be declining as I’ve been accepted closer to home. -
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Accepted 2024
accepted off WL today @ 5pm, spot 13 declined for another offer. Good luck to everyone on the waitlist! -
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Legal field entry question
I will say that, while I completely stand by my advice and thank the others for agreeing with me, my natural tone tends toward snide and I'm sorry if that was unhelpful. I didn't mean to be unkind. Indeed, as I said in my first post, I was pretty sure your post would sink like a stone, and I thought mine might be the only response you'd get - and it might have been, if I hadn't started a bit of a kerfuffle with my response. The thing is, if you're doing hiring, you're getting so many applicants that if someone's approach is odd, you're not going to invest the time in figuring out why. You're going to throw their application out and move on to the next one. If someone's sense of professional norms and communication style are off base, no employer is going to investigate whether they're a diamond in the rough - they're just going to keep moving. -
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1L grades + success in landing a job on Bay Street
Thank you both for your candid answers! I appreciate the honesty and encouragement. I know the best course of action to take right now is to leverage other parts of my application and try to stand out since my grades don’t do much for me. My next question is, what makes an “excellent” application? I’m confident in my writing and I’ve written some pretty good cover letters and gotten interviews based off of those. I do need to sharpen my interview skills this summer so I’m more prepared for the 2L recruit, and I’ll also need to make great connections with important people at these firms which will take work but I’m not overly worried about that because I do believe I’m a personable and sociable person that can connect somewhat easily with others (and leave a decent impression for that matter). But does anyone have tips on how I can craft an excellent application given my situation (2 C’s in 1L)? I also understand that luck shouldn’t be understated in these matters - because if it’s meant to happen, it’ll happen. But before I leave things up to the universe, I do want to do my part and my due diligence in attempting to secure a semi-decent chance of succeeding in the recruit. -
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Accepted 2024
Spot 16 posted on discord they just accepted the offer! -
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Dalhousie VS TRU
Usually they say go to the the school in your destination province. However, in this case i would urge you to consider Dal. Dal is a great school and there are so many Dal grads in BC. Premier David Eby is a Dal grad. Dal had the most success as an out-of-province school in the last Vancouver recruit. When I attended a BC MAG articling panel, the crown prosecutor on the panel was a Dal grad and told me that they have no preference for in province schools. Also, look up the tuition for both schools. TRU is surprisingly high given the university does not fund the faculty well. -
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Chance me please! Applying everywhere next cycle with 167 LSAT 91%, cgpa 2.7 l2b2 2.7
Being a mature applicant lowers the weight given to grades, but doesn't eliminate it. Having said that you have a strong LSAT score. Use your application to explain why your GPA was low, use that LSAT score as evidence of your academic ability. Build in how your work experince has shaped you too. All of this, paired with a applying broadly, will give you decent odds of an acceptance somewhere. The better your narrative and experince, the higher those chances go. -
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1L grades + success in landing a job on Bay Street
Be careful of conflating the recurit and biglaw. The vast majority of the recruit is in fact, not big law at all. Your grades, frankly, are going to hurt your odds of landing a bay street firm or some of the pickier botiques. But there are many options avalible to you and the answer to your question is that many people have found success in the recurit with grades much like yours. You can help yourself by crafting excellent application materials and applying broadly.- 1
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Accepted 2024
nope, I don't think so. Idk why it is taking so long and why this year's cycle is going by so slowly -
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"contribution or indemnity" vs "contribution and indemnity" crossclaim
Ooo, okay, this is very comforting to know. I feel like my law school MC questions were either written as trick questions or mistakes so I have been trained to really pay attention to those details. OH, okay yes this makes sense!! And glad you echo the same advice. I am so used to trickiness in law school it is a bit hard to turn that part of my brain off, but I will do my best to do so. And shoutout to that last bit lol the materials are so long and, I am noticing, a bit repetitive. Thankfully, I have great technology that makes reading more fun (aka Speechify), but it is still an immense amount of work. Thank you both for your help!!!- 1
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Chance me please! Applying everywhere next cycle with 167 LSAT 91%, cgpa 2.7 l2b2 2.7
Applying as a mature student with 5 years work experience. I don't really have the option to retake any more semesters due to full time work, do I have a shot next cycle?
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