It's been a while...

Hello again. It's been a while since I posted last. Unfortunately, there hasn't been much good news since last time. I've been rejected at UCLA, Duke, Case (which was a yield protect, so I'm not too hurt), and Berkeley. The Berkeley one really hurt, but I guess I will just get to move on to other things.

With this picture getting clearer, it is looking more and more like I can narrow my choices down to about 6 schools (5 if I don't get into William and Mary). I am going to go look at George Washington University next weekend, so I'm really hoping for a great time. Over spring break, I may be taking a road trip to look at University of Illinois, University of Iowa, Ohio State University, and University of Wisconsin. Hopefully those visits will help me make a decision. Hopefully I get some money from those schools, too! Haha. I'm hoping that the full scholarship from Baylor and the 3/4 scholarship from U of San Diego will be good bargaining chips.

University of Illinois/Santa Clara University

It seems like I'm posting everything in twos, and they typically have nothing to do with eachother. This time, though, I swear that they are linked. As you can see in my last post, I was waiting for a notification from University of Illinois last Friday, and to my joy, I was accepted! They even gave me a scholarship, which really surprised me to see that a school ranked at the same place as Notre Dame would give me a 30,000 dollar scholarship (10k per year) when Notre Dame waitlisted me. I guess that just goes to show how much of a crapshoot this process actually is. Thank you, Dean Pless, for my acceptance! You have easily taken the preliminary lead in my law school search.

In other news, I withdrew my application to Santa Clara University today. I received my scholarship information from them, and they only gave me 33,000 dollars over the three years (equating to 11k per year). I will take the 1k less per year and go to a school that is ranked over 60 spots higher than it, even if it is not in California. Good luck to all who are still awaiting a decision at SCU, and hopefully my withdrawal will open a spot for someone who is very deserving of that spot.

Now for the rest of finals week. One down, three to go!