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Excellent Boiled Potatoes
  • Law School Admit

I'll start this off. Got waitlisted to Western on May 7th. Had a horrible first year-ish but had a GPA of around 3.7 for my L2/B2 and a 161 LSAT score.

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When are waitlisted students likely to receive offers?
Some may receive offers before July 1. However, it is more likely that offers will be made in July or August. We reserve a number of spots in the first-year class for Western combined-degree students and admissions decisions are not finalized for that applicant group until the end of June. Spots not filled by combined-degree students are offered to waitlisted students.

According to the Western website, there's not much movement before July 1st but I'm still holding out hope to get off the waitlist before then since Western is my top choice and is closer to me. However, if I don't hear from them before the provisional acceptance deadline, I'll happily be going to Queen's 🙂

Best of luck to everyone else!

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2003consumed
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Received and accepted the waitlist position on May 7th, I manually checked the portal to see the update but I received an e-mail two 1-2 days later about it.

I'm a final-year undergraduate applicant. Applied access. Stats: 3.15/4.00 cGPA (OLSAS), L2/B2: ~3.81/4.00, LSAT: 164.

 

Wishing everyone goodluck!

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Tiatiadl
  • Applicant

Portal updated on May 7th. Applied acces.

(OLSAS) cGPA: 3.35/4.0

L2: 3.90/4.0

LSAT: 156, 163 (Oct), 164 (Jan)

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slala
  • Undergrad
On 5/23/2024 at 9:07 PM, Tiatiadl said:

Portal updated on May 7th. Applied acces.

(OLSAS) cGPA: 3.35/4.0

L2: 3.90/4.0

LSAT: 156, 163 (Oct), 164 (Jan)

hey how were ur softs? do u have an idea to why u were rejected? 

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Tiatiadl
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On 5/31/2024 at 8:46 AM, slala said:

hey how were ur softs? do u have an idea to why u were rejected? 

I think my optional Part B personal statement wasn't as strong as I wanted it to be. Maybe that's why?

To answer your question, my softs include: parliamentary internship experience, some volunteer experiences throughout undergrad, director at a human rights non-profit, president + executive member of a human rights-related club. Those are the ones I mainly highlighted in my personal statement in connection to my interest in law. Other softs that I listed but didn't highlight in my statement are executive member of a departmental student council, full-time summer science lab assistant experience (volunteer), some retail summer part-time jobs, etc. 

I think my softs were decent enough. Tbh I was kind of surprised to get waitlisted at Western but I got other acceptances so not a big deal.

Hope this helps!

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Excellent Boiled Potatoes
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Sadly didn't make it off the waitlist before the July 1st deadline, but not too upset about it as I'm looking forward to Queen's. There were a couple of people that did get off the waitlist on reddit though, but not too many. Hopefully this helps future applicants!

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true north
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On 7/1/2024 at 7:12 PM, Excellent Boiled Potatoes said:

Sadly didn't make it off the waitlist before the July 1st deadline, but not too upset about it as I'm looking forward to Queen's. There were a couple of people that did get off the waitlist on reddit though, but not too many. Hopefully this helps future applicants!

I also didn't get off the waitlist by July 1 

But have two other options 😜 western was a good choice though. Good luck at Queen's 

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Moosehead
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I managed to get an offer off the waitlist on June 7th, but I ended up choosing Queens instead because I'm not really interested in BigLaw or corporate and I was impressed by Queens. I'm also looking forward to Queens!

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Excellent Boiled Potatoes
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5 hours ago, true north said:

I also didn't get off the waitlist by July 1 

But have two other options 😜 western was a good choice though. Good luck at Queen's 

Thank you very much! Best of luck where you're headed as well!

3 hours ago, Moosehead said:

I managed to get an offer off the waitlist on June 7th, but I ended up choosing Queens instead because I'm not really interested in BigLaw or corporate and I was impressed by Queens. I'm also looking forward to Queens!

Congrats on getting off the waitlist. I'll see you at Queen's!

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