First law school acceptance - University of Michigan!

I started the application process back in the beginning of October (I actually had everything ready in September, but I was waiting on a letter of recommendation...), and by the beginning of November I was starting to get impatient about receiving replies back, even though I knew that the typical application process would take two months to finish. So, we really should start hearing back from most of the law schools in December, hopefully. That would make a nice Christmas present. Anyway, I periodically (read: every day) check the "Online status checker" for each of the schools to which I applied. Last Monday (Nov 8) I was very pleasantly surprised to see that Michigan had already made a decision on my application. It had been only about two and a half weeks from when I had sent in my residency application, which does figure somewhat into the application process. I guessed that such a rapid decision could only mean admission, since my numbers are good enough that I don't think they would reject me out of hand, but it would be several days until I got the actual letter in the mail with the decision--or so I thought. To my delight, I came home that night and found a large packet in the mail!!

Well, large packets typically only mean one thing--admission!

So, needless to say, Liz and I are very excited about the opportunity to go to Michigan!
In other news, I have a phone interview with Harvard Law School tomorrow! I had a good chat with a friend at HLS today, and he assured me that the chances of admission are fairly high once you have been given a phone interview. So, here's hoping (and praying!!) that we get offered a spot there! And at Stanford. And maybe Yale.