UMICH, UIUC, or UW Madison

MichorPlan2
Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:13:41 +0000

“You apply to the Wolverine Scholars program in your junior year I believe so a Michigan student who chooses not to take the LSAT would forfeit his/her chances at any other law school in the country besides Michigan’s Law School so he/she clearly wouldn’t have done well on the exam or wasn’t confident in the ability to do so.”

Goldenboy, that statement is totally false. Applying as a Wolverine Scholar is NOT the law school equivalent of Early Decision. If you are accepted as a Wolverine Scholar, you were free to apply to any other law school, as your acceptance date for the Wolverine Scholar progaram was the same as for regular admits to Michigan Law School. I am a lawyer, and I can guarantee you that if such a program had been available to me, I would have applied as a Wolverine Scholar and if I was accepted I would still have applied to Harvard, Stanford and Yale (but no place else because Michigan is the equal of the other top law schools) and I would NOT have applied to safery law schools.

“Remember, you can get admitted to Michigan Law through the regular admissions process, so the only student who would skip the test and apply to this program is one that knew beforehand that Michigan Law was a major reach and that the Wolverines Scholars program would have been the only way for him/her to get admitted to a school of that caliber (UVA, Duke, Boalt, Penn and Northwestern).”

That statement is also totally false. It is harder for UM students to be admitted as a Wolverine Scholar than as a regular admit. Which is proven by the following statement:
“of the 66 people who have been denied as Wolverine Scholars in the last two seasons, 14 were subsequently admitted in the regular admissions pool.”
[Revisiting the Wolverine Scholars Program Career Center Blog](http://blog.careercenter.dsa.umich.edu/2011/06/01/revisiting-the-wolverine-scholars-program/)

If being a Wolverine Scholar was, to use your words, “would have been the only way for him/her to get admitted to a school of that caliber,” then the number who were admitted regular after not being admitted as a Wolverine Scholar would have been 0, not 12.

Simply put, you don’t have a clue.