Top 1/3
Posted: Tue May 08, 2012 2:21 pm
This might be a really dumb question, but here goes....When a firm says their cutoff is 1/3 what schools are including in this? I am particularly asking about T2 in this category.
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This. Also, due to competition, the person who actually gets the job likely has a lot higher rank than that if your school outside of the top few.patentlaworbust wrote:Most likely, they mean Top 1/3 of your class (i.e., class rank).
Good advice.JusticeHarlan wrote:http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... 7#p4548977
thesealocust wrote:thesealocust wrote:thesealocust wrote:thesealocust wrote:A wise and insightful person once wrote:
PSA - when a firm lists its GPA preference and requirements, you should do the following: Ignore them entirely and mother fucking ask career services.
Firms lie through their god damned teeth on those things, and I want to keep harping on it, because it is VERY IMPORTANT TO YOUR CAREER PROSPECTS. The firms are lying or naive or outsourcing their symplicity profiles to India or who knows what, but if you ask a 3 year old with a box of crayons to draw you the cut off for a firm you'll get a better answer than the firm's published cutoff on your OCI software.
Firms aren't consistently high, or consistently low - they're just consistently full of shit. A firm that says "top third required" might hire to median, it might hire from the top 3% without exception, and there's even a remote chance it will hire from the top third. But those pieces of data simply cannot be relied upon at all. Not even in a cursory way. Not for comparison's sake, not when nothing else will do. You need to completely disregard them, and beg/borrow/steal data from career services. Your (and that's the royal 'your' for everyone out there reading in paranoid law student land) career depends on it.