<p>my daughter applied this admission cycle too. As most of her applications were submitted in October, she took advantage of one EA deadline and should be getting a response any day. She also has one decision rendered- so that too should arrive in the mail any day. But in both instances, those applications were submitted in early October. She has one T-20 acceptance with $, so she has at least one very solid offer to consider. But that application was submitted in early October too. In the past, her stats should have been considered an auto-admit for a number of T-20 schools, but she hasn’t heard from a bunch of them yet. It does seem that the schools really may have been inundated with applications, and the whole admission cycle may be a bit more drawn out this year. Oh Joy!!</p>
<p>Following some of the law school websites (TLS and LSN), this looks like it may be a very competitive and long admission cycle for some. There seems to be a big jump in the number of applications received by the law schools, and they seem to be waiting until they get more applications in before they give final decisions. As an example, there has been a lot of deferred applicants at Cornell with stats in the range of 168/ 3.5. In past years, one would have expected a Cornell acceptance with those #'s. </p>
<p>My point is, it may be a very long cycle- and many applicants will not receive acceptances until January/February and if deferred or waitlisted, may not get acceptances until April through July.</p>
<p>but as flowerhead said- if the basic stats are real strong (170/3.6 or thereabouts) and you are looking for a T-14 acceptance, there should be a few acceptances coming soon if one targeted the appropriate schools (T7-14). I also think there is not too much action during the Xmas vacation- so things may get a bit quiet over the next few weeks and pick up again in mid-january.</p>
<p>good luck!</p>