Some schools are much better than others. Mine was atrociously bad. There was some knowledge, but it was very limited. I now really believe that you have a much better chance of clerking / getting a better clerkship coming from, say, Chicago or UVa than NYU or Penn. It's all about connections and those schools seem to work at it.traydeuce wrote:My school somehow knew who was off-plan, for the most part. I never spoke to a single chambers about it.
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Re: The New York Times clerkship article: late, wrong
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Oh yes, our clerkship process was abysmal. The woman running it knows no one. We had some high-powered professors on our clerkship committee who made calls but that was it.Anonymous User wrote:Some schools are much better than others. Mine was atrociously bad. There was some knowledge, but it was very limited. I now really believe that you have a much better chance of clerking / getting a better clerkship coming from, say, Chicago or UVa than NYU or Penn. It's all about connections and those schools seem to work at it.traydeuce wrote:My school somehow knew who was off-plan, for the most part. I never spoke to a single chambers about it.
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There is nothing more entertaining at this stage of my life than a TLS clerkship thread. Nothing.
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I was actually wondering how this thread was still going.wiseowl wrote:There is nothing more entertaining at this stage of my life than a TLS clerkship thread. Nothing.
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The Koz = awe-inspiring.
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Re: The New York Times clerkship article: late, wrong
Having just gone through the clerkship wringer myself, I find the article to be pretty spot-on within the spirit intended. As do most of my friends who got clerkships.
