Cycle Recap (International Applicant)
KJD, 178 LSAT, "Above Average" international grading that was regraded to "Superior" after the fall semester, US citizen. Applied the week applications opened & wrote every supplemental essay available. T3/T4 softs (probably T4: did some generic legal internships that I adored and am an internationally ranked university debater). Promised myself I'd write one of these when I was desperately looking for information about how law schools would assess my international transcript (hence the wide spread in applications: survey says, your results may vary).
Maybe could've gotten slightly different results if I had taken some time out before applying for law school (especially because I think the "Above Average" grading hurt my application and that was a temporary consequence of a personal situation in one semester--didn't write an explanation for it because it felt silly to explain a grade that was still good!) but this is what I want to do and I don't have anything I want to get out of a gap year anyway.
Definitely thought I'd bombed my Columbia interview (didn't feel like I was clicking with the interviewer), and then didn't get a decision until mid-March when I'd heard back from most other schools (NYU nonwithstanding). Honestly, I think the tiebreaking part of my application was that I just interview well regardless. I got into every place I interviewed (even virtually) with some fairly solid scholarships. If I didn't get an ii... let's just say things got cloudier.
EXTREMELY happy to be going to Columbia in the fall!! :))))