It would be a crazy twist of fate if we end at at Georgetown law at the same time hahaha
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We look forward to your return O creative one.
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I’m still here, just not much to post yet.
I’m hiring a coach (Nick D’Agostino, I think @The_Myth has met him before) with a doctorate in physical therapy, so he should be able to give some guidance on what to do. And he’ll probably force me to finally learn how to do a real deadlift.
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I have met several of that group, including one of the Nick’s - not sure if it was D’Agostino or Delgadillo.
I am a fan.
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Outsourcing W1D1
Press 2.0: Work to 155x5/5
Squat: Work to 285x5/5 (oof)
Unilateral Cable Row: Work to 165x8/8
Leg Curl: Work to 170x8
Told you guys I wasn’t gonna disappear :]
Turns out that was a grade 2 lat strain/tear on the left, complete with some bruising, and shoulder tendonitis on the right. Which means either:
A: I took a deadlift AMRAP to the point of shredding my lat
B: I pulled 405x13 with a pre-shredded lat
Both are pretty cool.
I’m very confident in Nick. He spent >2x the advertised length of the intake call talking through training history, goals, and the injuries. It’s super helpful for my neuroticism to defer the decision-making surrounding an injury to someone else who I trust, and just focus on just doing what’s put in front of me.
Press 2.0 is a cool movement. It’s gonna get me to 225.
Squats felt godawful, and my belt was loose, which means I’ve shed some weight. Shoulder wasn’t happy getting in that position, either. And add to the mix the fact that this is a style of squatting I’m unfamiliar with, and you get the perfect storm for a warm-up weight to become a surprisingly hard work set.
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Scored a 174/180. One point below median at Yale, exactly at median at Harvard, and above median for every other school in the country. GPA is over the median by at least 0.30 for every school in the country (shoutout Bama’s ultra-generous A+ policy).
Going to review my resume + two main essays with the head of the Polisci department & my prelaw advisor over the next week, then send everything out. Applications before Thanksgiving are considered relatively early, so I’m way ahead of schedule, which gives my odds an extra little boost.
From there, the focus just becomes work + keeping grades up until graduation + winning a departmental awards for my essays, if I can.
Unsurprisingly, I am very sore after Monday’s session. I took a ~4 mile walk yesterday (I do this on all my off-days, I just don’t log it) which helped somewhat, but we’ll see how it plays out lifting tonight.
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outstanding. congrats.
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You probably understand the difference between median and average better than I do, and I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are not getting into either school with a median LSAT. If you get in, it will not be because of a median LSAT.
My son had qualifying SAT’s at both schools, but did not get in despite having a 4.4 GPA, National Honor Society, Tri M Music Honor Society, volunteer work, AP Lang, AP Lit, AP Chem, AP Gov, AP History, AP Music Theory, AP yadda yadda.
He did not fit the profile - White Irish kid from Long Island doesn’t check the boxes.
He went to UCONN and is pleased. You will find your spot and be successful. You are not your LSAT’s.
Rock on with your bad self.
Say hello to Obama or @atlas13 for me.
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Quality mate, just Quality
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I wouldn’t be so certain.
Excluding minority applicants, last year’s admissions statistics for people with a 174, >4.0, applying before November, and having no postgrad work experience looks like this:
My undergrad has a five-year streak of getting at least one student into HLS, and everyone I’ve spoken to in the prelaw office says that my resume + essays + background are in line with those who have gone before me. Also, the law school’s acceptance rate is about triple that of the undergrad. Granted, I’m not married to the idea of any one school. I’m applying very broadly—partly for the sake of having leverage for negotiating scholarships down the line—and virtually all of the places I’m looking at will set me up very well for the future.
One interesting statistic about law admissions is that at any given school, only ~10% of students will be above both medians. The vast majority of students are termed “splitters”—at or below one median, and above the other. By balancing out high-gpa splitters and high-LSAT splitters, the school can keep higher medians than it otherwise would.
I get the sentiment, though. Undergrad admissions went quite poorly for me, but I am positioned to do much better this time around. Only time will tell.
(Not trying to be confrontational at all with this btw, I have just absorbed an obscene amount of information/statistics about this process and it doesn’t take much to bring them out)
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Say no more.
DEI and taking down the white patriarchy are a thing - and you are a part of the white patriarchy.
Good. You are not your LSAT, you are not your Law School.
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A little woo woo - you are not your law school, not your LSATs. My brother went to NYU, got an LLM in Tax and Estates, never practiced law.
This actually got me curious—I redid that search with the same parameters, except only including minority applications (although there’s fewer minority data points, so I had to include applications sent in December + go back two years instead of one, so that the denominators were more similar to the first chart I sent) and it looks like this:
Which is less of a gap than one would expect.
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Granted, this is undergraduate not graduate so I’m not sure if it’s the same, but as a white lower mid class Midwestern kid, I got accepted to Yale. 35 ACT, captain of the football team, and president of a few clubs, but that was really it outside of school. No ethnic group to claim, no international experience, just a country kid who worked hard.
Now at the same time, Notre Dame turned me down, and as a Catholic, I’m convinced they talked to my priest hahaha
Edit: should also clarify I did NOT go to Yale, because lower middle class white kid has no shot of paying off that tuition, and USNA was free lol.
Also fun fact, I was very worried about college admissions, so I applied to 37 different schools. I figured accuracy by volume.
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So that’s a Yale acceptance, time in the Navy, and a huge deadlift… your life is cool lol.
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Just throw those 3 on my tombstone and call me good to go lol.
Honestly, I don’t think what school you get into matters all that much. I went through Nuclear Power Training Command with a couple Ivy League engineers, and I out performed all of them as a political science major from the academy. Getting into a school shows you did the things needed to get into it, along with a bit of luck. What happens after? I think the school you go to may matter a little when fresh out of school, but your actual capabilities as a person quickly begin to outpace your educational resume.
BUT, based on family and friends, I would say this doesn’t entirely hold true for 3 degrees. Law, med, and MBA. Certain firms/markets are just so oversaturated that they filter by school just to make applicant size reasonable, so I totally see striving for that.
Honestly, I’m coming up on the time I need to start considering grad school, and I’m just so torn on what I want to do. Or rather, which thing I want to do. I’ve got a pretty good path lined up for me if I choose law, mba, or medicine, and all 3 sound interesting…. But I gotta pick one, and it’s not like “I don’t want to do that” more of “I don’t want to not do that” haha.
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It’s one of the more frustrating parts of the process—I’d be totally content to stay in Tuscaloosa and share an apartment with a couple of my friends for another 3 years, but the firms/clerkships/regional markets that I’d be looking for down the line are exponentially harder to land when they don’t send interviewers to your state, much less your campus.
I’m sure you’ll thrive whichever route you choose. There does seem to be many more self-loathing lawyers than doctors, though.
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Oh man, if you knew more about my community, you’d have no idea how much this fits for me hahaha.
Honestly, of all 3, my background suits me to law the best. Captain of college debate team, poli sci, naval officer, the package kinda fits. MBA would work just from the Navy engineering side because of all the big defense contractors, and honestly MBA seems like it would be the easiest path with the highest quality of life. But I’m pretty passionate about medicine. Which is actually very new to me, never wanted to do that at any point growing up, but as I’m getting older, and more as I’m seeing how unhealthy practices are impacting my sailors, I really want to get involved in a “health optimization for performance” sort of approach. Maybe just pipe dream
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So my brother that went to NYU Law school owns a pellet mill, a country club, a bar, a trucking company, and his net worth is north of $15M.
He is the most miserable asshole I have ever met.
Just be you and enjoy what you do.
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@The_Myth In my family, I’ve always found that it’s the ones with the most money that argue about money the most. My grandparents went back and forth with my extended family over finances for like a decade, and then did their best to screw everyone over in their wills out of spite.
Outsourcing W1D2
CG Bench: Work to 175x5/5
Con. Deadlift: Work to 295x5/5
Lat Pulldown: Work to 115x8/8
Barbell Curl: Work to 85x8
Lateral Raises: Work to 20x8/8
Benched with a very close grip to keep my right shoulder from undergoing much stress. Weight on the bar will go up pretty quick, and then I can think about inching my grip out.
Conventional deadlifts are weird. But if I can build that up to 500, I’m sure it’ll do a world of good for my real deadlift (wink wink nudge nudge)
Vertical pulling is much more contraindicated than horizontal pulling right now. We’re gonna build up the light pulldowns, and later down the line get me chinning again.
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