Summer Classes 2015 Edition--Distributions in OP Forum

[Elston Gunn]

Wait, one of out every 13 YLS students are going to S&C? That's bizarrely high, right?

Oh, man. LOL @ the 2Ls if that is true.

[Mal Reynolds]

Just lol

[2014]

Wait, one of out every 13 YLS students are going to S&C? That's bizarrely high, right?

Not really, it was 16 last year too. PW has 11 (12 last year), DPW had 13 last year.

It's a pretty high concentration for relatively few firms but to each their own I guess. Probably helps them keep high summer class numbers but moderate first year numbers since all of those people will go clerk or teach or whatever.

[arklaw13]

So what does S&C do, just give CBs to everyone who interviews at Yale and doesn't have explosive diarrhea during the 15 interview slot? Then everyone who gets a CB gets an offer? Or do you have to have at least one H to get a CB?

[Elston Gunn]

So what does S&C do, just give CBs to everyone who interviews at Yale and doesn't have explosive diarrhea during the 15 interview slot? Then everyone who gets a CB gets an offer?

Close enough, yeah. They also seem to be the winiest and diniest in the recruiting process. Considering how many YLS people have no intention of ever returning to their 2L firm, I guess it's not totally crazy. You probably get a lot of bottle service during your summer.

[Mal Reynolds]

So what does S&C do, just give CBs to everyone who interviews at Yale and doesn't have explosive diarrhea during the 15 interview slot? Then everyone who gets a CB gets an offer?

Close enough, yeah. They also seem to be the winiest and diniest in the recruiting process. Considering how many YLS people have no intention of ever returning to their 2L firm, I guess it's not totally crazy. You probably get a lot of bottle service during your summer.

I didn't consider this, which definitely conflates the issue. Pretty 180 move.

[Desert Fox]

I would never hire a Yalie for an SA. T50 Southern grad, female, top of her class every day and twice on sunday.

[Elston Gunn]

I would never hire a Yalie for an SA. T50 Southern grad, female, top of her class every day and twice on sunday.

Is it so hard tell apart the hyper competitive type A big law sociopaths from the hyper competitive type A future academics from the hyper competitive type A do gooders?

[fats provolone]

Yale is not competitive because they don't have grades check your facts

[Elston Gunn]

Yale is not competitive because they don't have grades check your facts

if you're just a chill, sociable bro you'll get a feeder clerkship np

[Anonymous User]

Yale is not competitive because they don't have grades check your facts

if you're just a chill, sociable bro you'll get a feeder clerkship np

No. Firms care about YLS grades just as they care about grades at all other schools.

[Tiago Splitter]

Yale is not competitive because they don't have grades check your facts

if you're just a chill, sociable bro you'll get a feeder clerkship np

No. Firms care about YLS grades just as they care about grades at all other schools.

lol you stupid, anonymous motherfucker

[Elston Gunn]

Yale is not competitive because they don't have grades check your facts

if you're just a chill, sociable bro you'll get a feeder clerkship np

No. Firms care about YLS grades just as they care about grades at all other schools.

no. you can take all your exams blackout drunk and split w&c/susman if you're alpha

[Mal Reynolds]

If you're gonna miss the joke you might as well post anon.

[Old Gregg]

Feminist at YLS writes 1L contracts exam about the UCC just being another form of penis envy. Grade? Job?

[Anonymous User]

So what does S&C do, just give CBs to everyone who interviews at Yale and doesn't have explosive diarrhea during the 15 interview slot? Then everyone who gets a CB gets an offer?

Close enough, yeah. They also seem to be the winiest and diniest in the recruiting process. Considering how many YLS people have no intention of ever returning to their 2L firm, I guess it's not totally crazy. You probably get a lot of bottle service during your summer.

I didn't consider this, which definitely conflates the issue. Pretty 180 move.

Then the Yalies should choose firms like Skadden or Davis Polk where they can blow the summer off.

[Mal Reynolds]

The dumb ones probably do.

[Elston Gunn]

Feminist at YLS writes 1L contracts exam about the UCC just being another form of penis envy. Grade? Job?

Well, contracts is first semester, so her grade is CR* (criteria: did you write words on the page?), and she gets a V10.

*small chance she has to redo the exam, but she will one way or another get a CR.

[enibs]

Yale is really the only school where it's difficult to impossible to screen based on grades. First semester required courses are completely ungraded, and many students only have three graded courses (at most four) second semester. That's all you have to go on at OCI. And there's no strict curve and all the students have ridiculous pre-law school credentials. So it becomes a little silly to try to differentiate based on whether a student has one H or two or three. In contrast, Harvard and Stanford, even having eliminated letter grades, still have grading systems that you can use to screen. Students there will have 10 or 12 graded classes, with a strict curve, and with the Dean's Scholar or Gunther Prizes at the top end. My sense is that grade competition is still fierce at those schools - certainly it is at Harvard.

[Cicero76]

Yale is really the only school where it's difficult to impossible to screen based on grades. First semester required courses are completely ungraded, and many students only have three graded courses (at most four) second semester. That's all you have to go on at OCI. And there's no strict curve and all the students have ridiculous pre-law school credentials. So it becomes a little silly to try to differentiate based on whether a student has one H or two or three. In contrast, Harvard and Stanford, even having eliminated letter grades, still have grading systems that you can use to screen. Students there will have 10 or 12 graded classes, with a strict curve, and with the Dean's Scholar or Gunther Prizes at the top end. My sense is that grade competition is still fierce at those schools - certainly it is at Harvard.

scholarship

So what does S&C do, just give CBs to everyone who interviews at Yale and doesn't have explosive diarrhea during the 15 interview slot? Then everyone who gets a CB gets an offer? Or do you have to have at least one H to get a CB?

I had at least one H. Did not get S&C callback. TBF, I treated my FIP interviews for NYC firms as an experiment in doing stupid things, because I would stab myself before I worked in NYC.

[Elston Gunn]

I had at least one H. Did not get S&C callback. TBF, I treated my FIP interviews for NYC firms as an experiment in doing stupid things, because I would stab myself before I worked in NYC.

Yeah, it's not literally everyone. They call back like 60%, and then give offers to essentially everyone they call back.

[Anonymous User]

Williams & Connolly

Total: 37

Y—5
H—8
S—3
Col—0
Ch—0
NYU—0
P—1
Va—1
B—0
D—6
M—0
NW—1
Cor—1
G—7
UT—2
Vandy—1
GW—1

[Old Gregg]

Williams & Connolly

Total: 37

Y—5
H—8
S—3
Col—0
Ch—0
NYU—0
P—1
Va—1
B—0
D—6
M—0
NW—1
Cor—1
G—7
UT—2
Vandy—1
GW—1

Thanks for clarifying that certain schools have zero. I would have totally thought otherwise.

[mmelittlechicken]

Williams & Connolly

Total: 37

Y—5
H—8
S—3
Col—0
Ch—0
NYU—0
P—1
Va—1
B—0
D—6
M—0
NW—1
Cor—1
G—7
UT—2
Vandy—1
GW—1

Thanks for clarifying that certain schools have zero. I would have totally thought otherwise.

lool

[beepboopbeep]

Williams & Connolly

Total: 37

Y—5
H—8
S—3
Col—0
Ch—0
NYU—0
P—1
Va—1
B—0
D—6
M—0
NW—1
Cor—1
G—7
UT—2
Vandy—1
GW—1

Thanks for clarifying that certain schools have zero. I would have totally thought otherwise.

How else would he have emphasized that G > D > CCN

I mean, W&C (the good one, not the bad one) is the best V18 in the world, what other measures would you u want