It's Not You, It's Us
Dear Asha,
I received a confirmation e-mail
that my application has been received, but have not yet received confirmation
that my application is complete. Is this simply because it is early in the
admissions season and applications are not yet being considered, or is it
possibly indicative of a missing component in my application?
Sincerely,
A.P.
Dear
A.P.,
When you hit “submit” on your
electronic application to Yale
Law School,
we receive your basic data and an indication that you have applied. Base on this data, we will send you an
“application received” email. However,
it will take us another week to receive your actual application in the mail. It may take an additional week or two for us
to receive your LSDAS report, which contains your LSAT score, transcript, and
recommendations.
Before October 15, LSAC will not
release an LSDAS report to Yale until it contains at least two letters of
recommendation. After that date, LSAC will
release your report immediately and continue to send us updates as you provide
recommendations.
Your application will be complete
once we receive your application, LSDAS report, and two letters of
recommendation. At that point, we will
send you a “file complete” email and your application will enter the queue to
be read. In early spring, if we still
have not received all of the components of your application, we will send you
an email letting you know what is missing from your file and give you time to
provide those materials.
Although we have already begun
considering applications, there are a couple of important things to know about
our system. The first, which I have
mentioned in a previous posting, is that your chances of admission will not be
affected by when your application becomes complete. The second is that we will not fill up the
seats in the class until we have given all applicants a chance to complete
their files and we have read every last application. So relax -- we won’t forget about you, we
promise!
--Asha
Please submit questions to 203blog@yale.edu.