LSL Abbreviations and Jargon
LSL Abbreviations and Jargon
0L - A law school applicant. This term is derived from the standard law school system whereby first-year students are called "1Ls", second-year students are "2Ls", and third-year students are "3Ls".
AA - Affirmative action OR African American OR Ann Arbor
Adcomm - Admission committee/admission committee member
ASD - Admitted Students' Day
ASW - Admitted Students' Weekend
BC - Boston College
Bibles - PowerScore logic games and logical reasoning study guides
BP - BluePrint (LSAT prep)
BU - Boston University
Cal, or Boalt, or UCB, or Berk - names for UC Berkeley Law
CCN - Chicago, Columbia, NYU
C/O - Class of
CLS - Columbia Law School
Ding - Rejected
EA - Early Action: a non-binding application option. Apply early, and get a decision by a specified date
ED - Early Decision - a binding application option. "If accepted to school X, I will attend."
E&E - Examples & Explanations. This is a series of primers covering various legal subjects.
Flame - A fake profile, persona, or hypothetical situation designed to mislead, antagonize, or annoy.
GMU - George Mason University
Gray/Gray Day - terminology referencing when LSAC icons turn gray, signifying that LSAT scores are coming out that day
GULC - Georgetown University Law Center
GWU - George Washington University
HLS - Harvard Law School
HTH - Hope this helps
HYP - Harvard, Yale, Princeton (undergrad)
HYS - Harvard, Yale, Stanford (law schools)
IP - Intellectual property
IRL - In real life
ITT - In This Thread
JS1 - interview request from Harvard (first contact from Jessica Soban)
JS2 - acceptance to Harvard
KJD - someone who went straight from “Kindergarten” through their “JD” (i.e. someone who didn’t take any time off to work after undergrad)
LG - Logic games section of the LSAT ("analytical reasoning")
LOCI - Letter of continued interest
LOR- Letter of recommendation
LR - Logical reasoning section of the LSAT
LSL - LawSchool.Life
LSN - LawSchoolNumbers.com
LST - Law School Transparency (employment data & more) http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/
MA - Mexican American
NA - Native American
NYLS - New York Law School
OCI - On-Campus Interview
OP - Original Poster
PI - Public interest
PM - Private message (noun) or Send/sent a Private Message to (verb)
PR - Puerto Rican
PS - Personal statement
PT - either “practice test” or “priority track” (referring to the Duke program)
RA - Reasonable Accommodation
RC - Reading comprehension section of the LSAT
SA - Summer Associate
SLS - Stanford Law School
TL;DR - Too Long, Didn't Read
T1 - Tier one schools according to USNWR (1-50)
T2 - Tier 2 (50-104)
T3 - Tier 3 (105-139)
T4 - Tier 4 (the rest)
T6 - Top 6 law schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, NYU)
T13 - The top 13 schools
T14 - The top 14 schools, traditionally including Georgetown
TITCR - This is the credited/correct response
TLS - An inferior website to this one
TTT - Third tier toilet, derogatory reference to 3rd and 4th tier schools
UCB - University of California, Berkeley
UG - Undergrad
UofC - University of Chicago
UR 1, 2, etc. - status checker updates of “under review”
URM - Under-represented minority
USNWR - US News and World Report's Law School Rankings
V10/V100 - The top n firms, as ranked by Vault
W&L - Washington and Lee
W&M - William and Mary
WL - Waitlist/Waitlisted
WUSTL - Washington University in St Louis
YLS - Yale Law School
YP - Yield protect
AA - Affirmative action OR African American OR Ann Arbor
Adcomm - Admission committee/admission committee member
ASD - Admitted Students' Day
ASW - Admitted Students' Weekend
BC - Boston College
Bibles - PowerScore logic games and logical reasoning study guides
BP - BluePrint (LSAT prep)
BU - Boston University
Cal, or Boalt, or UCB, or Berk - names for UC Berkeley Law
CCN - Chicago, Columbia, NYU
C/O - Class of
CLS - Columbia Law School
Ding - Rejected
EA - Early Action: a non-binding application option. Apply early, and get a decision by a specified date
ED - Early Decision - a binding application option. "If accepted to school X, I will attend."
E&E - Examples & Explanations. This is a series of primers covering various legal subjects.
Flame - A fake profile, persona, or hypothetical situation designed to mislead, antagonize, or annoy.
GMU - George Mason University
Gray/Gray Day - terminology referencing when LSAC icons turn gray, signifying that LSAT scores are coming out that day
GULC - Georgetown University Law Center
GWU - George Washington University
HLS - Harvard Law School
HTH - Hope this helps
HYP - Harvard, Yale, Princeton (undergrad)
HYS - Harvard, Yale, Stanford (law schools)
IP - Intellectual property
IRL - In real life
ITT - In This Thread
JS1 - interview request from Harvard (first contact from Jessica Soban)
JS2 - acceptance to Harvard
KJD - someone who went straight from “Kindergarten” through their “JD” (i.e. someone who didn’t take any time off to work after undergrad)
LG - Logic games section of the LSAT ("analytical reasoning")
LOCI - Letter of continued interest
LOR- Letter of recommendation
LR - Logical reasoning section of the LSAT
LSL - LawSchool.Life
LSN - LawSchoolNumbers.com
LST - Law School Transparency (employment data & more) http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/
MA - Mexican American
NA - Native American
NYLS - New York Law School
OCI - On-Campus Interview
OP - Original Poster
PI - Public interest
PM - Private message (noun) or Send/sent a Private Message to (verb)
PR - Puerto Rican
PS - Personal statement
PT - either “practice test” or “priority track” (referring to the Duke program)
RA - Reasonable Accommodation
RC - Reading comprehension section of the LSAT
SA - Summer Associate
SLS - Stanford Law School
TL;DR - Too Long, Didn't Read
T1 - Tier one schools according to USNWR (1-50)
T2 - Tier 2 (50-104)
T3 - Tier 3 (105-139)
T4 - Tier 4 (the rest)
T6 - Top 6 law schools (Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Chicago, NYU)
T13 - The top 13 schools
T14 - The top 14 schools, traditionally including Georgetown
TITCR - This is the credited/correct response
TLS - An inferior website to this one
TTT - Third tier toilet, derogatory reference to 3rd and 4th tier schools
UCB - University of California, Berkeley
UG - Undergrad
UofC - University of Chicago
UR 1, 2, etc. - status checker updates of “under review”
URM - Under-represented minority
USNWR - US News and World Report's Law School Rankings
V10/V100 - The top n firms, as ranked by Vault
W&L - Washington and Lee
W&M - William and Mary
WL - Waitlist/Waitlisted
WUSTL - Washington University in St Louis
YLS - Yale Law School
YP - Yield protect
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It’s not working right now, but we’re getting to it, and will sticky this when we can.Experiment626 wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2018 11:03 amDo we have sticky functionality working over here? If so, requesting sticky so this doesn't get lost in the waves of threads that are going to be made.
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JS1/JS2 would have been helpful when I first started off
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PSYCHM - Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT (i.e., elite national universities)
WASP - Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona (i.e., elite LACs)
WASP - Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona (i.e., elite LACs)
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No. Stop it. We're not going to adopt your pretentious shtick.Kodokushiest wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:05 pmPSYCHM - Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT (i.e., elite national universities)
WASP - Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona (i.e., elite LACs)
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Moreover, it's not even really compelling shtick. But you know that Hikkoku.Nony wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:13 pmNo. Stop it. We're not going to adopt your pretentious shtick.Kodokushiest wrote: ↑Sun Jan 28, 2018 10:05 pmPSYCHM - Princeton, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, Harvard, MIT (i.e., elite national universities)
WASP - Williams, Amherst, Swarthmore, Pomona (i.e., elite LACs)
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UR 1, 2, etc. and PT (practice test/Duke Priority Track) would be helpful additions.
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C/O is class of
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Added suggestions, thanks all 

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Gray/Gray Day
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What about KJD?
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If you’re gonna have GMU as an abbreviation, ASSLaw needs to at least be mentioned
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This is a great idea.
I had never heard T19 before, but I agree it makes sense.
I had never heard T19 before, but I agree it makes sense.
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If we're gonna stop saying "T14" because it doesn't match reality, we'd do ourselves a favor by doing the same with "T20" unless some school solidifies a grip on spot #20 in the rankings and challenges USC and Wash U at least occasionally.
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MS9
Edit w serious suggestions: Cal = Boalt = UCB = Berk
Edit w serious suggestions: Cal = Boalt = UCB = Berk
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pw = picwhore
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