http://www.llm-guide.com/board/11879 en What Chances do You think I have? - LLM GUIDE Discussion Board Sat, 04 Mar 2006 12:49:00 +0200 http://www.llm-guide.com/board/11879/last#11879 Did you get a letter from your law school / professor stating that you are the best GPA ever? That might help... Yes I think so. I dind't read the letters because I signed the waiver but both my recommenders told me they insisted on that topic. One of them, probably the most reliable from YLS standpoint (he was a visiting professor there once) even wrote down, or so he told me, that I was one of the two or three best students he ever had, including graduate and doctoral students from LSE, Oxford, Harvard, etc. But you never know unless you see it with your own eyes and I didn't... I was also lucky to meet in Lisbon, after a conference in my school, a guy named John Gardner who is Professor of Jurisprudence at Oxford and was a visiting professor at yale last year. I can't figure why (really...) but after a question during his lecture and five minutes of conversation after it, he told me he would love to write a recommendation letter himself. As he told me: "That will really help you!". He was very kind, although I still can't figure why :-) Good luck to you too Paul. I hope to see you soon!