Fordham Law OCI Bids---everyone ready?? Forum

[Anonymous User]

OCI bids are due tomorrow...everyone ready??

personally my list is all over the place.

does anyone know how much being on a journal or moot court helps?

[Anonymous User]

OCI bids are due tomorrow...everyone ready??

personally my list is all over the place.

does anyone know how much being on a journal or moot court helps?

It varies by firm. check the employer's description on Symplicity. If a firm says MC, LR or Journal preferred, and you don't have it, maybe bid a different firm with the same class rank focus.

[NickDenver1]

Mine is all over the place also... I feel like I could have done nothing else this summer but work on my bidlist and it still wouldn't be very good.

[Anonymous User]

I must have put in a good 20 hours this past week - and I started researching a month ago

[Anonymous User]

I think moot court and journals can help if the interviewer was also on them, or if you are on the border between top 50 and top 33 or top 25 or whatever

[Anonymous User]

So who else is frantically making panicked last minute changes

[Anonymous User]

I considered applying as a 3L but there are so few slots for the lottery that I felt I might as well just email some interviewers for firms I might be interested in when the interviewers are announced. I figure its not much use as a backup to being no-offered since they will want to know if you had an offer anyway. Good luck 2Ls!

[Anonymous User]

Thankfully I was just tinkering with my list a bit and discovered that one of my PDFs uploaded incorrectly, and half of my grades were missing on my transcript. I assume people are doing this, but it might be worth opening all the documents and making sure they formatted correctly upon uploading.

[Anonymous User]

and now the waiting game begins

[Anonymous User]

and now the waiting game begins

Anyone know how soon we can find out if we got anything?

[lawrence1917]

aug 9. on the simplicity site.

[Anonymous User]

aug 9. on the simplicity site.

FWIW it came ours earlier last year I think the Tuesday morning before it was supposed to
Come out

[lawrence1917]

what did people go for?

[Anonymous User]

what did people go for?

I spent weeks sorting by practice area, likelihood of getting hired, networking contacts, etc.
Put simply, I went for the firms I'd most like to end up and are most likely to hire me.

[Anonymous User]

gpa range:
journal/other:
work experience/other:

top 10 firms:

[Anonymous User]

gpa range:
journal/other:
work experience/other:

top 10 firms:

What purpose would this serve other than bragging? Interviews come out in two weeks and there's nothing you can do to change your list now, can we drop the neuroses until then? Enjoy what little anxiety-free life we have left...

[Anonymous User]

gpa range:
journal/other:
work experience/other:

top 10 firms:

What purpose would this serve other than bragging? Interviews come out in two weeks and there's nothing you can do to change your list now, can we drop the neuroses until then? Enjoy what little anxiety-free life we have left...

this is a thread on OCI. if you don't like what's posted, don't read it.

[Anonymous User]

gpa range:
journal/other:
work experience/other:

top 10 firms:

What purpose would this serve other than bragging? Interviews come out in two weeks and there's nothing you can do to change your list now, can we drop the neuroses until then? Enjoy what little anxiety-free life we have left...

Anxiety free? My anxiety is through the roof whether my bid strategy paid off

[lawrence1917]

gpa range:
journal/other:
work experience/other:

top 10 firms:

What purpose would this serve other than bragging? Interviews come out in two weeks and there's nothing you can do to change your list now, can we drop the neuroses until then? Enjoy what little anxiety-free life we have left...

this is a thread on OCI. if you don't like what's posted, don't read it.

agree with anon. people can be curious without bragging.

[Anonymous User]

How'd everyone do? Me first I guess. Barely median, secondary journal, some work experience, 10 interviews (Mostly 3s, some 2s)

[Anonymous User]

Does anyone know how to find out which firms are preselected and which are lottery?
Thanks

[lawrence1917]

you can't get a definitive answer. but you should be able to deduce it.

[Anonymous User]

Best of luck this week, everyone. Shall we keep this thread active with news/results/intel/tips?

[Anonymous User]

Best of luck this week, everyone. Shall we keep this thread active with news/results/intel/tips?

How about we talk about the thrilling and lively hospitality area?

[Anonymous User]

You mean the graveyard? I expected it to be packed ... there were like 6 people, and the poor firm in the back corner had no one the entire 10 minutes I was in there.