Applicants who clearly meet the School's admission standards are accepted for admission. Applicants who clearly do not meet these standards are denied admission.

However, because of the rolling procedure, the Admissions Committee is reluctant to make final decisions on a number of candidates – individuals whose credentials place them between those who are clearly acceptable and those who are clearly not acceptable – until it has a broader overview of most applications. Consequently, some applicants are neither admitted nor denied following their first review but are notified either that they have been wait-listed – in the case of the highest-ranking applicants in the middle group – until later in the processing year. Neither of these decisions is a denial and they should not be construed as such.

In the past, our use of the Waiting List has varied from the extension of admission offers to many candidates on the list, to the extension of no such offers in years of over-enrollment. Admission offers could be forthcoming at any time during the spring or summer. Each week, beginning in early April and continuing into August, the Admissions Committee analyzes the quantity and quality of admission offers extended and the seat deposits yielded from those offers. Through this assessment, the Committee makes a fall enrollment forecast. If an enrollment shortfall of any kind is projected, the Committee may turn immediately to those candidates who are on the Waiting List, as well as to those whose decisions have been deferred, and offer admission to candidates who will help us achieve certain specific enrollment objectives, which are variable from week to week.

Thus, wait-listed candidates as well as those whose decisions are on hold should continue to keep in touch with the Law School, to visit here, and to compare the information provided by our school to that received from other institutions. Of course, so much of the waiting list decision-making process is triggered by outside forces that there can be no guarantees. However, if experience over the past few years is any guide, as long as one has not received a notice of denial from the Law School, he or she remains an active candidate with some chance for admission.