Alas, I am undone!!
I have received the first rejection of the cycle and it is from the institution I most wanted to attend … George Mason University.
The rejection arrived in what another user on LawSchoolNumbers.com (LSN) called a “Small, White, Angry Envelope”. As soon as I saw the envelope from Mason in the mailbox, I knew that it was a rejection. Those who had received the acceptance packet described it as a large packet and it was always prefaced by a phone call. I had not received the phone call and this was not a large packet. My heart sank … and stayed there.
I am, I must say, flabbergasted by the rejection. The two data points that bother me the most are:
- According to LSN, I have the highest index score of any rejected applicant including full time applicants.
- Also according to LSN, I had the second highest index score of ANY part time applicant and many with substantially lower scores have already been admitted and these were not Under Represented Minorities (URMs).
Oh well … such is the way of things and there is no profit in complaining. Now I have to revisit the acceptances I have already received, look at the applications I still have outstanding and perhaps rush to get a few more in that I had failed to send in my hubris.
Mason … we would have been good together !!!
