Anxiety makes people's emotions rise, that is true, but I do not think this is what is happening here.
The fact is that if one of you is to take a single moment to check the past year's posts, there are always trolls - there has literally not been a single year since there has not bee a troll. People, unfortunately, have fun at the expense of other people's anxiety.
To make questions and challenge facts that appear impossible or innapropriate is not "troll hunting" but, rather, helping people not get anxious for no reason at all. Everyone on this post and people who read it are anxious for their own results and the results of people close to them. There is absolutely no reason why, if someone chooses to share their personal story in a forum like this, they cannot be challenged or asked questions - after all, we are all lawyers.
Now, regarding this specific situation, I do hope we are all accepted and get to meet Gary in person. One must note, however, that it does seem weird that the first person to get their result - apparently weeks before anyone else - is someone whose name is "666", has been on this site for over 5 years, and had never made a single post before, in any forum whatsover. The angry and defensive reactions of some people around here is also quite puzzling to me.
No one is questioning the MCL results - which typically come out on this date, and are, in fact, on time. This is not an MCL forum - although I do ask that you keep commenting on MCL results, as they may help assist us in our predictions. When it comes to LLM, the LLM results have never worked this way in all the past years - one needs only to read the past forums to see.
It is not at all unreasonable to question the fact that someone with absolutely no info on their profile, who had never made a post before, and who chose a username that is mostly universally known as a joke, appears to be the first person in history to break the trend of Cambridge applications. Not a single other person has moved to GAO for the LLM program, and LLM offers have never come before MCL offers in this fashion.
Hopefully, no one has so much free time as to come on a forum like this and troll young students with a dream at hand. However, we cannot be as naive as to believe that no one would to this - after all, as someone just passively agressively mentioned, we are all supposed to be adults here.
You are absolutely right, there has been trolls. But knowing that every year there are some trolls, is not enough to classify someone who received an earlier result and shared it here as a “troll”. I know you are anxious and sceptical but you just remain unsatisfied with the answers you get.
When I first shared my GAO update on February 9, you immediately implied the existence of a “troll”. I understood that and tried to help you by trying to explain this was not the case, at least not for me, and I shared my screenshot from the application tracking web page.
Since you spent time to write a long post and try to explain your reasoning, even if sometimes it sounds like a conspiracy theory, I will try to remove all your doubts by explaining all the things you pointed out.
1) Yes I received my status update and offer letter before anyone else shared about it here. I believe there are, at least there should be, others who received their offers at the same time with me but they are either not a member of any forum or they just do not prefer to share it with others. I shared the news regarding my application results simply because I try to help my fellow applicants. Since there have been no updates whatsoever, I decided to share it with the hope that they might give you and the others who will apply the following years some information. I know that I and many others checked the threads of previous years.
2) I tried to explain it to you once before, I think you overgeneralize the dates. You take a stand as it is impossible for anyone to get their results this early as if you work at the admissions office of Cambridge for decades. There is not a rule when exactly they will release the results. As I pointed out in my reply to your previous post, there was offer e-mails which were sent on February 5, not 10 years ago, not 5 years ago but for the 2018/2019 cycle. I do not know anything about the MCL results being sent before the LLM results, I have not fact checked your conclusion and I will not spend my time to do this. However, if you consider the deadline for the LLM was December 3 whereas the deadline for the MCL was January 7, I believe it is not shocking for some LLM results to be communicated before the MCL results. It is so reasonable.
3) I believe I am under question not because I had an earlier offer but because I am the only one to share it with you. There are some people who received offers for the MCL before me, I am still at the GAO stage and waiting for the e-mail.
4) You are too speculative about my profile. You just happen to focus on “666” thing, you do not know whether it is my primary school number, or my apartment number. Maybe it has a meaning you do not know or maybe it is just a random number when I could not get the plain nickname “gary”. One could easily fabricate that you make it hard for anyone in here to believe the facts since you have “hard” at the end of your nickname. Is that it? This sounds too much like a fantasy. As a result, my nickname has nothing to do with the information I share here.
5) Yes, I have been a member since 2015. That is because I used this forum to learn moreabout applications in 2015 when I first applied for my first LLM degree. I already received an LLM degree from a US law school, 5 years ago. This will be my second LLM. The reason why I do not have any profile picture, country information or first law degree info, unlike you, is I need to stay anonymous. Any hint which may reveal my identity may cause me trouble at my current office. I applied for my second LLM without letting my boss or colleagues know about it. I know for sure some of my colleagues constantly check this website and posts and I do not want them to know. I now try to secure my funding for the Cambridge LLM. If I do, I will resign from my current position otherwise I will keep my position. Thus, before securing funding it is crucial for me not to reveal any information regarding my identity. That is why I removed my previous app tracker information, previous posts (there were only 1 or 2 but they contained some sort of personal info) and my country information. If anyone knows my country, my law school and my first LLM degree, it becomes too obvious. I did not want to take any chances. That is also why I did not share any background info when some people in this forum asked me about my background.
6) I now share the link to the images of my offer e-mails, my self-service account and my application tracking page. I hope they will be enough to make you believe what I said or maybe it will still not be enough and you will claim that they are “photoshopped” since I have “666” in my nickname :)
BONUS:
Yesterday I received my college offer. I was going to share it but I changed my mind because I will be the first one in here to share the news about college placement. I think it is quite obvious when you are the first to share any update here and all of a sudden many become too sceptical and classify you as a “troll”. Anyway, after these long explanations I changed my mind, again, to share the news with the hope it will be beneficial for someone out there. My first college choice was Emmanuel and the second was Gonville & Caius. Yesterday, I learned that I was offered a place at Emmanuel and I am very happy about it.
I hope this long post is adequate to put an end to your scepticism and doubts. At this point I cannot offer any more help and convince you that I am genuine. The next step will be meeting you in person at Cambridge and I hope it will happen. But you need to buy me a coffee when we finally meet, have a conversation and laugh about the anxious waiting process. I hope you will hear good news not for Cambridge but for all your other applications as well. Until then, please just try to minimize stress and hope for the positive outcomes. I wish you the best.
Good luck, have a nice weekend and stay healthy guys!
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[Edited by gary666 on Feb 19, 2021]
[quote]Anxiety makes people's emotions rise, that is true, but I do not think this is what is happening here. <br><br>The fact is that if one of you is to take a single moment to check the past year's posts, there are always trolls - there has literally not been a single year since there has not bee a troll. People, unfortunately, have fun at the expense of other people's anxiety.<br><br>To make questions and challenge facts that appear impossible or innapropriate is not "troll hunting" but, rather, helping people not get anxious for no reason at all. Everyone on this post and people who read it are anxious for their own results and the results of people close to them. There is absolutely no reason why, if someone chooses to share their personal story in a forum like this, they cannot be challenged or asked questions - after all, we are all lawyers. <br><br>Now, regarding this specific situation, I do hope we are all accepted and get to meet Gary in person. One must note, however, that it does seem weird that the first person to get their result - apparently weeks before anyone else - is someone whose name is "666", has been on this site for over 5 years, and had never made a single post before, in any forum whatsover. The angry and defensive reactions of some people around here is also quite puzzling to me. <br><br>No one is questioning the MCL results - which typically come out on this date, and are, in fact, on time. This is not an MCL forum - although I do ask that you keep commenting on MCL results, as they may help assist us in our predictions. When it comes to LLM, the LLM results have never worked this way in all the past years - one needs only to read the past forums to see. <br><br>It is not at all unreasonable to question the fact that someone with absolutely no info on their profile, who had never made a post before, and who chose a username that is mostly universally known as a joke, appears to be the first person in history to break the trend of Cambridge applications. Not a single other person has moved to GAO for the LLM program, and LLM offers have never come before MCL offers in this fashion. <br><br>Hopefully, no one has so much free time as to come on a forum like this and troll young students with a dream at hand. However, we cannot be as naive as to believe that no one would to this - after all, as someone just passively agressively mentioned, we are all supposed to be adults here. [/quote]<br><br><div>You are absolutely right, there has been trolls. But knowing that every year there are some trolls, is not enough to classify someone who received an earlier result and shared it here as a “troll”. I know you are anxious and sceptical but you just remain unsatisfied with the answers you get.</div><br><br><div>When I first shared my GAO update on February 9, you immediately implied the existence of a “troll”. I understood that and tried to help you by trying to explain this was not the case, at least not for me, and I shared my screenshot from the application tracking web page.</div><br><br><div>Since you spent time to write a long post and try to explain your reasoning, even if sometimes it sounds like a conspiracy theory, I will try to remove all your doubts by explaining all the things you pointed out.</div><br><br><div>1) Yes I received my status update and offer letter before anyone else shared about it here. I believe there are, at least there should be, others who received their offers at the same time with me but they are either not a member of any forum or they just do not prefer to share it with others. I shared the news regarding my application results simply because I try to help my fellow applicants. Since there have been no updates whatsoever, I decided to share it with the hope that they might give you and the others who will apply the following years some information. I know that I and many others checked the threads of previous years.</div><br><br><div>2) I tried to explain it to you once before, I think you overgeneralize the dates. You take a stand as it is impossible for anyone to get their results this early as if you work at the admissions office of Cambridge for decades. There is not a rule when exactly they will release the results. As I pointed out in my reply to your previous post, there was offer e-mails which were sent on February 5, not 10 years ago, not 5 years ago but for the 2018/2019 cycle. I do not know anything about the MCL results being sent before the LLM results, I have not fact checked your conclusion and I will not spend my time to do this. However, if you consider the deadline for the LLM was December 3 whereas the deadline for the MCL was January 7, I believe it is not shocking for some LLM results to be communicated before the MCL results. It is so reasonable.</div><br><br><div>3) I believe I am under question not because I had an earlier offer but because I am the only one to share it with you. There are some people who received offers for the MCL before me, I am still at the GAO stage and waiting for the e-mail. </div><br><br><div>4) You are too speculative about my profile. You just happen to focus on “666” thing, you do not know whether it is my primary school number, or my apartment number. Maybe it has a meaning you do not know or maybe it is just a random number when I could not get the plain nickname “gary”. One could easily fabricate that you make it hard for anyone in here to believe the facts since you have “hard” at the end of your nickname. Is that it? This sounds too much like a fantasy. As a result, my nickname has nothing to do with the information I share here.</div><br><br><div>5) Yes, I have been a member since 2015. That is because I used this forum to learn more</div><div>about applications in 2015 when I first applied for my first LLM degree. I already received an LLM degree from a US law school, 5 years ago. This will be my second LLM. The reason why I do not have any profile picture, country information or first law degree info, unlike you, is I need to stay anonymous. Any hint which may reveal my identity may cause me trouble at my current office. I applied for my second LLM without letting my boss or colleagues know about it. I know for sure some of my colleagues constantly check this website and posts and I do not want them to know. I now try to secure my funding for the Cambridge LLM. If I do, I will resign from my current position otherwise I will keep my position. Thus, before securing funding it is crucial for me not to reveal any information regarding my identity. That is why I removed my previous app tracker information, previous posts (there were only 1 or 2 but they contained some sort of personal info) and my country information. If anyone knows my country, my law school and my first LLM degree, it becomes too obvious. I did not want to take any chances. That is also why I did not share any background info when some people in this forum asked me about my background.</div><br><br><div>6) I now share the link to the images of my offer e-mails, my self-service account and my application tracking page. I hope they will be enough to make you believe what I said or maybe it will still not be enough and you will claim that they are “photoshopped” since I have “666” in my nickname :)</div><br><br><div>BONUS:<br><br>
</div><div>Yesterday I received my college offer. I was going to share it but I changed my mind because I will be the first one in here to share the news about college placement. I think it is quite obvious when you are the first to share any update here and all of a sudden many become too sceptical and classify you as a “troll”. Anyway, after these long explanations I changed my mind, again, to share the news with the hope it will be beneficial for someone out there. My first college choice was Emmanuel and the second was Gonville & Caius. Yesterday, I learned that I was offered a place at Emmanuel and I am very happy about it. </div><br><br><div>I hope this long post is adequate to put an end to your scepticism and doubts. At this point I cannot offer any more help and convince you that I am genuine. The next step will be meeting you in person at Cambridge and I hope it will happen. But you need to buy me a coffee when we finally meet, have a conversation and laugh about the anxious waiting process. I hope you will hear good news not for Cambridge but for all your other applications as well. Until then, please just try to minimize stress and hope for the positive outcomes. I wish you the best.</div><br><br><div>Good luck, have a nice weekend and stay healthy guys!</div><br><br><div>https://ibb.co/r3kWKxg<br><br>
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