I am entering the last month of my LL.M. program at Georgetown — polishing final term papers, prepping for exams, and even starting part-time at my post-graduation job.
I arrived at school early today to record a podcast with the Georgetown’s career center about our awesome externship program. After the podcast recording session I went to the library to prep for tonight’s class, but decided to check my email before studying.
To my surprise, I have a bunch of emails from a random person that didn’t get caught by my spam filter. I open the first to find out that I have been rejected from some LL.M. program that I have never even heard of because the school (erroneously) thinks I don’t have enough work experience.
An Online LL.M. Energy and Natural Resources program?
Note how the email also mentions an “MBA application.”
There are several other emails, including one that says that they can’t move my (non-existent) application forward because I haven’t earned my J.D. (I have, and I’m even licensed in Tejas.)
Admissions season is weird. The University of Oklahoma’s glitchy email system (and bad data) isn’t unique. It’s certainly better than the completely offensive minority recruiting tactics that some schools pulled when I was applying for my J.D. program.
After looking into this further, I figured out that LSAC kept my profile active even after I applied to schools. I didn’t realize that I needed to manually update my profile to prevent it from sharing my information with every random law school with a novel LL.M. offering. This also explains why schools kept trying to recruit me after I enrolled for my J.D. program.
You’d think they would have fixed this in the 10 years since I was a J.D. applicant.
Update: Apparently my classmates got the email as well. I wonder how many reply/bounced emails that poor recruiter will receive today.
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