Hi Stgista11,

when did u submit your application?

I didn't expect so many replies! hope to address each one of you. On Nov 8 I got 104 (28 R; 29 L; 26 S; 21 W). my previous score was 91 (8/2007). I submitted my application the very first week of September, and I got my first reply after almost 3 weeks

Thanks for you answer stagista! I was worried because I think that your previou score was 100, but since it was 91, is very logical to ask you to take it again.
Btw, you really improve your score, congrats for that!

I was lucky on this count. Received my first & second mail within two days of submission of my application. But no word on the third....i hope my application is complete.

Thanks Stagista!
Congratulations for your TOEFL score!
I had to increase it too, from 577 (Sep, 2006) to 603 (Oct, 2008).
Legal.eagle I think that you have not received the second-email since you are not sure about the completeness of your application...am I right?

I don't think you need a third e-mail Legal-Eagle. I think they won't get back to us before a final decision has been made. Thank you Jenny, but I must say that I've been living in Washington since January, so I would have been very disappointed not to improve my skills...the writing part (but just the toefl's one) keep being a pain in the neck...

I'm just wondering what the hell NYU admission office is doing right now!
I submitted the application in early Sept. and it's already Mid Dec! I heard a lot of top law schools have released their decisions, while there is still no news from NYU and they can't even estimate when to release!
Do we really need to wait until Feb next year? Waiting so long does not make any sense and definitely will kill me.
Does anybody have the same feeling?

Dear fellow applicant, alias borapassat,

It's almost 3 months that I'm thinking exactly the same thing, How could they not be able to get back to me if I've send them my application back in September...what the hell have been doing all this time??? moreover, the fact I didn't hear from Duke yet, while others did, it's making me anxious...

Yeah...Stagista, I am kind of out of patience and frustrated... Maybe we shouldn't have submit the application so early... I got the second confirmation email one month after I finished my online application while it takes much shorter for the ones who did their application last month...say only a couple of days.
I heard sombody already got admitted by Duke...in a way it's a good news 'cause at least you know what the hell they are doing;)

I thought was a good idea honestly. Moreover, I thought that this way they would have paid more attention to my file, being among the first applicants...of course that was my personal opinion...duke said me, from the very beginning that they would have got back to me by Xmas. they have 13 more days before running late...I'm definitively out of patience...

Let's make a wish: Give us the admission letters as Xmas gift :)

I think we are suppose to be notified about the completeness of our application.
My first mail was of acknowledgment of receving the appl, second - TOEFL waiver, Third - no clue.
Yeah i pray each of us gets an admission.

Legal Eagle
I believe the mail granting TOEFL Waiver is not to be confused with confirmation mails. So in that case you also havent received the second mail, right?

BTW I recieved my first confirmation mail on 27th Nov. Is it like around 3 weeks that I need to wait or my second mail?

Dear all.....i ahev got just one mail on Nov. 13 and after that no email for toefl waiver or anything....then after few days i got this following email
Dear Applicant,


The following link will take you to the Harvard Law School web portal which will guide you through the process of paying for your application fee by credit card:

www.events.harvard.edu/1255

Please be advised the applicant is responsible for submitting their application by the December 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants who have submitted their application by the deadline are welcome to pay the application via the web portal at their earliest convenience. Submitted applications will not be penalized if the fee payment is received after the deadline.

If you are unable to pay via credit card you may also pay the application fee via bank check (a check issued by a foreign bank but can be drawn on a US bank account) or by sending travelers checks.

Please make checks payable to Harvard Law School; if you are making your payment by means of travelers checks, please be sure to sign your name on both the signature and countersignature lines found on each travelers check.
Kind regards,
Admissions staff
Harvard Law School Graduate Program

But i paid the fees online much before this email........do u guys think that their silence on my application to toefl waiver is positive in some sense....i mean had they been planning to refuse my application, i would have got some intimation from them....correct me if i'm wrongly assuming things......

I think we are suppose to be notified about the completeness of our application.
My first mail was of acknowledgment of receving the appl, second - TOEFL waiver, Third - no clue.
Yeah i pray each of us gets an admission.

Dear all.....i ahev got just one mail on Nov. 13 and after that no email for toefl waiver or anything....then after few days i got this following email
Dear Applicant,


The following link will take you to the Harvard Law School web portal which will guide you through the process of paying for your application fee by credit card:

www.events.harvard.edu/1255

Please be advised the applicant is responsible for submitting their application by the December 1, 2008 deadline. Applicants who have submitted their application by the deadline are welcome to pay the application via the web portal at their earliest convenience. Submitted applications will not be penalized if the fee payment is received after the deadline.

If you are unable to pay via credit card you may also pay the application fee via bank check (a check issued by a foreign bank but can be drawn on a US bank account) or by sending travelers checks.

Please make checks payable to Harvard Law School; if you are making your payment by means of travelers checks, please be sure to sign your name on both the signature and countersignature lines found on each travelers check.
Kind regards,
Admissions staff
Harvard Law School Graduate Program

But i paid the fees online much before this email........do u guys think that their silence on my application to toefl waiver is positive in some sense....i mean had they been planning to refuse my application, i would have got some intimation from them....correct me if i'm wrongly assuming things......

Dear Tallking,

Thanks for ur reply.....however i just want to clarify that i paid the fees using this link only and have got the confirmation from HLS long time back and i have enclosed that confirmation with the paper application also.....after that they sent me first confirmation email on NOv. 13 and then this email came on Nov 30........i replied to this email stating that i have already paid the fees and gave them the apyment details that were appearing on the payment acknowledgment email sent by HLS........but no email came after that.....do u think i need to email them again to confirm if they have received my application fees???????.......has anyone got such email?????????.....

The Graduate Program Admissions staff is currently reviewing your file. We will make sure to contact you should we require additional documents. We will keep you informed of the status of your application by sending you an e-mail confirming receipt of your application materials; we will then send you a second notice indicating whether your application is complete or not (this is, historically, anywhere between a few days from the date of this e-mail to a few weeks). Please note that decisions regarding TOEFL and fee waiver requests will be communicated to you in a separate email.

This was the mail I was referring to. Then TOEFL waiver happened. Since then haven't heard from them.

Brightest, I think you should contact them about the fee issue. If possible call them.

Hi Borapassat .....I have not received any such mail....may be its still in the pipeline.
Guys what do you think the admission criteria is???