Overenrollment and the T3 Forum

[TorDesIS]

A lot of top schools (Berkeley, Columbia, Duke, Penn) are overenrolled. Other schools outside of the t14 are also overenrolled. How badly will this impact employment (BL and FC) in the T3?

[The Lsat Airbender]

Federal clerking is hard-capped, so percentages will go down (for t14 grads and top students from other schools in aggregate) proportionate to overenrollment. Harder to say what will happen to individual schools but the effect will be relatively muted at HYS. I'd be mildly concerned about clerking from a school like Duke or Berkeley which is overenrolled by enough that "top 20% is the new top third" would be a coherent concept.

HYS are basically immune from something this small causing issues for biglaw employment, and overall BL/FC numbers should therefore be fairly steady.

[cavalier1138]

Yeah, assuming you were asking about the "T3" as in HYS, there will be very little impact.

If you were asking about "T3" as in third-tier schools, then no one from those schools was really getting biglaw or federal clerk positions in the first place.

[anotherchessplayer1]

On another note, how will this impact populating future classes? Will acceptance rates go down? I heard Columbia paid people to take gap years.