What % of offers get accepted?
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What % of offers get accepted?
I hear it's roughly 50%..... is it fair to say that if a firm has 15 spots there will probably be around 30 offers made?
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
this is relevant to my interests especially for a lower end Vault firm (80-100)
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Anonymous User wrote:this is relevant to my interests especially for a lower end Vault firm (80-100)
I dunno, this number probably varies a lot due the different offer rates for different schools. Looking at the statistical data from mine (HYS) it shows a lot of firms (from V25 to V100) with something like 25 offers, 5 acceptances or (for smaller firms) 8 offers 1 acceptance. However this probably isn't true for all schools.
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
Anonymous User wrote:I hear it's roughly 50%..... is it fair to say that if a firm has 15 spots there will probably be around 30 offers made?
In 2010, it was more like 40%, but each firm will be different. A firm like Paul Hastings might be more like 20%, because they are competing for people who get a shit load of other, and better offers.
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
3 offers per 1 acceptance is a good rule of thumb for firms that aren't Wachtell, Williams & Connelly, etc. Even at the S&C, Cravath level the yield is around 33%, because they tend to all offer the same pool of people and lose candidates to each other.
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V100 recruiter told me 60% yield at her firm.
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
rayiner wrote:3 offers per 1 acceptance is a good rule of thumb for firms that aren't Wachtell, Williams & Connelly, etc. Even at the S&C, Cravath level the yield is around 33%, because they tend to all offer the same pool of people and lose candidates to each other.
At CLS, the ration of offers accepted to offers extended is 1:3.2, so this sounds about right.
Anonymous User wrote:V100 recruiter told me 60% yield at her firm.
If true, this is unusually high. At CLS the only firms of any meaningful scale with ratios about 50% were DPW and Ropes (and Wachtell exactly at 50%). Paul Weiss, Cleary, STB, Debevoise, Cravath, S&C, etc. were all considerably below 50%.
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
imchuckbass58 wrote:rayiner wrote:3 offers per 1 acceptance is a good rule of thumb for firms that aren't Wachtell, Williams & Connelly, etc. Even at the S&C, Cravath level the yield is around 33%, because they tend to all offer the same pool of people and lose candidates to each other.
At CLS, the ration of offers accepted to offers extended is 1:3.2, so this sounds about right.Anonymous User wrote:V100 recruiter told me 60% yield at her firm.
If true, this is unusually high. At CLS the only firms of any meaningful scale with ratios about 50% were DPW and Ropes (and Wachtell exactly at 50%). Paul Weiss, Cleary, STB, Debevoise, Cravath, S&C, etc. were all considerably below 50%.
Wait, are you saying people at CLS turn down Wachtell 50% of the time? I find that very hard to believe.
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
Unitas wrote:
Wait, are you saying people at CLS turn down Wachtell 50% of the time? I find that very hard to believe.
Last two years running.
Granted it's a relatively small sample, but yes.
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Re: What % of offers get accepted?
Unitas wrote:imchuckbass58 wrote:rayiner wrote:3 offers per 1 acceptance is a good rule of thumb for firms that aren't Wachtell, Williams & Connelly, etc. Even at the S&C, Cravath level the yield is around 33%, because they tend to all offer the same pool of people and lose candidates to each other.
At CLS, the ration of offers accepted to offers extended is 1:3.2, so this sounds about right.Anonymous User wrote:V100 recruiter told me 60% yield at her firm.
If true, this is unusually high. At CLS the only firms of any meaningful scale with ratios about 50% were DPW and Ropes (and Wachtell exactly at 50%). Paul Weiss, Cleary, STB, Debevoise, Cravath, S&C, etc. were all considerably below 50%.
Wait, are you saying people at CLS turn down Wachtell 50% of the time? I find that very hard to believe.
yup
happens all the time
I even heard some people turn down callbacks with Wachtell.
I've heard that one year Wachtell gave offers to 6 CLS students and only 1 accepted. But I think this was back in the good ol' days of 2005-2007.
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