<p>dudes
i am an international law student and just sent the applications for graduate studies in law at chicago with all the necessary stuffs on jan 4th (deadline jan 15th)
i just have few q’s before i could actually have a peace of mind</p>
<p>i) i know its okay to have my english results to be sent later, but will they accept originals or certified copies? is it okay if i send them or do they want the centre to send them for me?</p>
<p>ii) i only sent a partial transcript (im graduating this april 2008 but i wanna apply for a place in september 2008). however, i asked my university for the details on official transcript. they said it usually takes them a month to realise it although on the last day of my final exams i will get a clearance letter stating i already graduated and the unofficial results are available a week or 2 after that. </p>
<p>it is a common fact that considerations are made around nov but decisions are made in mid april yet i could only send out my results a month later. sheitz…</p>
<p>what do u think?</p>
<p>iii) i sent U of C a couple of emails (at least 3) with regard to certain questions (not the ones above though) but never replied.
why eh?</p>
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<li><p>If you are applying for an LLM program, you really have to deal with the Law School’s admissions office, which will be different from the undergraduate admissions office, and with which no one who regularly reads this board will be familiar (although there are some U of C law students or recent graduates who post on CC). If the rules for undergraduate applications and graduate legal applications are the same, it is either coincidence or there really isn’t another answer possible. If you are applying for a PhD or MA program, there will be a different admissions office for that, which may be the same as the undergraduate admissions office, but I’m not sure.</p></li>
<li><p>Law school admissions tend to be rolling, beginning in November, but that doesn’t mean all applications are in then, or that you will be rejected because you didn’t apply until now. It may well mean, however, that you have to wait awhile before you hear, since response times tend to stretch out in the winter and spring.</p></li>
<li><p>Most LLM applicants are foreign, so the law school will know how to deal with the vagaries of English exams and foreign transcripts. The people there should answer your questions. (If they aren’t answered clearly on the web site or in the application materials. I would HATE to be applying to law school and to get caught not having read the documents carefully.)</p></li>
<li><p>Are you sure you used the right e-mail address?</p></li>
<li><p>If you are sure, invest in a phone call.</p></li>
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<p>i dont mind doing a phone call and thanks for the heads up, but i was just wondering why the emails were not returned
then again, ur reassurance on the bulk of emails to be replied kinda make sense</p>
<p>and about the understanding of the pains of applying via our English tests and transcripts what more with our own university’s silly excuses, they never really made it out in their website
haha</p>
<p>but i know i did not send out the application later than deadline.</p>
<p>so maybe i’d give it a call but the office operation hours for calls sucks. i mean this is the llm office i dunno about other office. :)</p>
<p>about multiple originals, my university does provide if u apply for quite a sum. i mean i have to apply for so cuz i need my own copies anyways. but all are attested and stamped anyway. so, in any discrepancies, they can always call the university.</p>