Can a law school have commitment issues?

Today marks both the six month anniversary of the date I submitted my law school application to Stanford and the day that I received the letter notifying me that the Stanford AdCom still hasn't really made a decision about my qualifications but has instead decided to waitlist me. OK, technically the letter was delivered yesterday and dated April 28, but I didn't check my mail until this morning...so I'm sticking with the "six months to avoid making a decision" theme. If ever there was a law school with commitment issues, Stanford would be it. Even Harvard took less than six months to notify me that they, too, were refusing to make an actual decision and were placing me on their waitlist. Yale's AdCom, on the other hand, was pleasantly expedient (comparatively, at least) in telling me that they had decided me unworthy of admission to their law school: they let me know within 90 days, which seems pretty reasonable, on the whole. Note that I didn't actually have any reasonable expectations of getting into HYS [note to people who haven't applied to law school or spent hours combing through the http://www.top-law-schools.com/ message boards, HYS is common shorthand for the Harvard/Yale/Stanford, or the trifecta of top law schools], that I do firmly believe that I would be relatively miserable at Harvard, that if I'm honest with myself I'll admit I had no real intention of moving across the country to Palo Alto, and that New Haven and I are not really BFF's either, but it's one of those things where if I hadn't applied, I always would have wondered, "Could I have gotten in?" Harvard and Stanford are clearly going to leave me hanging, since I need to refuse spots on their waitlists in order to file my request for a deferral at UVA (so that I can start at Darden in August). BUT, the good news is that finally, FINALLY, my admissions process is complete! For anyone who cares or is curious (I suspect that some folks viewing this blog as they contemplate applying themselves will be), here are the final results:

Admissions Decisions

School	Decision
Harvard Harvard Law School (HLS) Harvard Bus. Sch. (HBS)	Waitlisted Rejected
Stanford Stanford Law School (SLS) Grad. Sch. of Bus. (GSB)	Waitlisted Rejected
Yale Yale Law School (YLS) Yale Sch. of Mgmt.(SOM)	Rejected Accepted (merit scholarship)
University of Pennsylvania Penn Law School Wharton	Accepted Accepted
Northwestern Northwestern School of Law Kellogg	Accepted/Deferred Admission Accepted/Deferred Admission
University of Virginia UVA School of Law Darden	Accepted Accepted (merit scholarship & fellowship)
Boston University BU School of Law BU Grad. Sch. of Management	Accepted (merit scholarship) Accepted (merit scholarship)
Boston College BC Law School Carroll Sch. of Management	Accepted Accepted (merit scholarship/assistantship)

Isn't that a snazzy table? Apparently I've got mad html skillz I didn't even know I had! :-)