GW OCI 2012 Forum

[Anonymous User]

I haven't heard anything from anybody. What is the deal with that? No CB and no dings.

I even checked my resume to see if my contact info was correct.

Hah, SAME. I just did that. Just logged on to make sure all my stuff was straight and good to go. Freaking dead silence from over 10 places.

Do you two have your snail mail coming to D.C.? Many firms send dings that way... e-mail seems to be less frequent.

I've even gotten callback invitations through the mail (Ropes... those clowns), so they might not even all be bad.

No, going to a permanent address since I moved over the summer.

[Anonymous User]

I haven't heard anything from anybody. What is the deal with that? No CB and no dings.

I even checked my resume to see if my contact info was correct.

Hah, SAME. I just did that. Just logged on to make sure all my stuff was straight and good to go. Freaking dead silence from over 10 places.

Do you two have your snail mail coming to D.C.? Many firms send dings that way... e-mail seems to be less frequent.

I've even gotten callback invitations through the mail (Ropes... those clowns), so they might not even all be bad.

I received a CB invitation through email and I thought you generally received those via phone. You just never know.

[Anonymous User]

I haven't heard anything from anybody. What is the deal with that? No CB and no dings.

I even checked my resume to see if my contact info was correct.

Hah, SAME. I just did that. Just logged on to make sure all my stuff was straight and good to go. Freaking dead silence from over 10 places.

Do you two have your snail mail coming to D.C.? Many firms send dings that way.. . e-mail seems to be less frequent.

I've even gotten callback invitations through the mail (Ropes... those clowns), so they might not even all be bad.

I received a CB invitation through email and I thought you generally received those via phone. You just never know.

I know Willkie have out email CBs

[Anonymous User]

I haven't heard anything from anybody. What is the deal with that? No CB and no dings.

I even checked my resume to see if my contact info was correct.

Hah, SAME. I just did that. Just logged on to make sure all my stuff was straight and good to go. Freaking dead silence from over 10 places.

Do you two have your snail mail coming to D.C.? Many firms send dings that way... e-mail seems to be less frequent.

I've even gotten callback invitations through the mail (Ropes... those clowns), so they might not even all be bad.

No, going to a permanent address since I moved over the summer.

Welp, I guess you've just been interviewing at firms who are slower / more formalized in the process of handing out callbacks. I've gotten some invitations weeks after i screened so it happens

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear back from Jones Day (NY)?

[Anonymous User]

How many CB's is enough to feel comfortable/safe?

[Anonymous User]

How many CB's is enough to feel comfortable/safe?

They said at orientation the prospects of an offer from a callback is about 50/50...

[Anonymous User]

Let's be real. We're law students...are we ever going to get enough CBs to feel comfortable?

[Anonymous User]

How many CB's is enough to feel comfortable/safe?

They said at orientation the prospects of an offer from a callback is about 50/50...

Crap, that means an offer is never guaranteed.

[Anonymous User]

Anybody heard from Cooley (non-IP schedule)?

[Anonymous User]

Unfortunately, the 50 percent number is for all law schools. I imagine GW is near the bottom of the OCI barrel. I bet it is lower for us, but that is too helpful a number for CD... to collect

[Anonymous User]

Unfortunately, the 50 percent number is for all law schools. I imagine GW is near the bottom of the OCI barrel. I bet it is lower for us, but that is too helpful a number for CD... to collect

If GW is at the bottom of the OCI barrell, where in the barrel are GMU, AUWCL, UNC, Fordham...

I would suspect GW is near the middle of the barrel.

[Anonymous User]

Unfortunately, the 50 percent number is for all law schools. I imagine GW is near the bottom of the OCI barrel. I bet it is lower for us, but that is too helpful a number for CD... to collect

I batted around 0.500 in the 2010 OCI, which was pretty brutal.

[Anonymous User]

Unfortunately, the 50 percent number is for all law schools. I imagine GW is near the bottom of the OCI barrel. I bet it is lower for us, but that is too helpful a number for CD... to collect

I batted 0.500 in the 2010 OCI, which was pretty brutal.

Stats? Number of callbacks?

I don't know 50/50 just seems a bit too optimistic for me. I think realistically with 4 CBs you will probably just have 1 offer. 2 if you are a great interviewer. 6-8 callbacks will likely yield 2-3 offers. More like 25%-33% of CBs yield offers IMO.

[Anonymous User]

Unfortunately, the 50 percent number is for all law schools. I imagine GW is near the bottom of the OCI barrel. I bet it is lower for us, but that is too helpful a number for CD... to collect

I batted 0.500 in the 2010 OCI, which was pretty brutal.

Stats? Number of callbacks?

I don't know 50/50 just seems a bit too optimistic for me. I think realistically with 4 CBs you will probably just have 1 offer. 2 if you are a great interviewer. 6-8 callbacks will likely yield 2-3 offers. More like 25%-33% of CBs yield offers IMO.

I was an IP transfer from a shit school with decent grades, but nothing crazy. I went 4/10 on offers/CBs.

I think that, in the aggregate, the 50% number isn't that far-fetched. It seems to be representative of the entire interviewing cohort because stronger candidates will often net a higher CB:offer ratios (I know of some from the top of my class that pulled naerly 100% CB:offer ratios with TONS of CBs), whereas the rest of the candidates scatter around the curve (e.g. someone with 1 CB will either go 100% or 0%, and, as the previous anon said, many will land around 25-35%).

ETA: for those doing 3LOLOCI for IP, I bid (to cover my bases, and never ended up interviewing) last year and still got a bunch of screeners. Thus, there is STILL HOAP if you're left at the end of 2L summer with no offers.

GL everyone!

[Anonymous User]

Any CBs from:

Finnegan, Kenyon, Kilpatrick, Bryan Cave, Morgan Lewis, Sterne Kessler, or Goodwin Procter?

[Anonymous User]

Nothing from Bryan Cave on my end. If anyone has heard back from Bryan Cave, was your interviewer initials (GM)

[Anonymous User]

Bryan Cave has given out CBs.

[Anonymous User]

Bracewell?

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear from Frommer?

[Anonymous User]

Any word on Alston Bird or Jones Day (New York)?

[Anonymous User]

Anyone hear back from Jones Day (NY)?

Made CBs starting Tuesday.

[Anonymous User]

Simpson Thatcher callback. Weil too.

[Anonymous User]

Simpson Thatcher callback. Weil too.

Weil IP?

[Anonymous User]

Dechert CB today