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[Clemenceau]

Yeesh, voting speaking for itself.

To be honest I think 4 is a pretty low bottom. That is still very strike-outable and for many of us (myself included) who got more than 4 but expected to still do a lot better based on grades etc.

Agreed. 4 is a very low ceiling

[Anonymous User]

Yeesh, voting speaking for itself.

To be honest I think 4 is a pretty low bottom. That is still very strike-outable and for many of us (myself included) who got more than 4 but expected to still do a lot better based on grades etc.

Agreed. 4 is a very low ceiling

As someone with less than 4, I now feel twice as worse.

[Hikikomorist]

Yeesh, voting speaking for itself.

To be honest I think 4 is a pretty low bottom. That is still very strike-outable and for many of us (myself included) who got more than 4 but expected to still do a lot better based on grades etc.

Agreed. 4 is a very low ceiling

As someone with less than 4, I now feel twice as worse.

Yeah, this thread is kind of a bummer, and I was feeling okay about OCI prior to this.

[Anonymous User]

Granted, it was a few years ago, but I only had 2 biglaw cbs and landed an offer. So don't give up hope. It only takes one!

[stoopkid13]

I agree that four is a low ceiling in general, but I think the poll was made to figure out how many people are close to striking out, not how many callbacks people have generally.

In any case, it seems to me that strikeouts aren't actually as common as this thread originally made it seem.

[Anonymous User]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

[Anonymous User]

Got another letter ding and email ding today from mid size firms. so many dings

[Anonymous User]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

IDK about you but I 66% of my oci screeners have been confirmed dings. I had 30ish, 4 cbs and 20 dings. Waiting on a few more that have sent out cbs to others but radio silence. So essentially my oci is over. This is has been my experience at Duke and my friends. The dings are rolling in hard lately, almost always by email (heard of 1 letter but thats it).

[kingpin101]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

IDK about you but I 66% of my oci screeners have been confirmed dings. I had 30ish, 4 cbs and 20 dings. Waiting on a few more that have sent out cbs to others but radio silence. So essentially my oci is over. This is has been my experience at Duke and my friends. The dings are rolling in hard lately, almost always by email (heard of 1 letter but thats it).

If you don't mind me asking, what does your GPA look like?

[Anonymous User]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

IDK about you but I 66% of my oci screeners have been confirmed dings. I had 30ish, 4 cbs and 20 dings. Waiting on a few more that have sent out cbs to others but radio silence. So essentially my oci is over. This is has been my experience at Duke and my friends. The dings are rolling in hard lately, almost always by email (heard of 1 letter but thats it).

If you don't mind me asking, what does your GPA look like?

This experience has not just been me, its been a group of close friends of mine as well. Our collective gpas range from median to about top 25% or so, journal for everyone, etc. Everyone is in the same boat. The top 25% or so person has 5 cbs and a vast amount of ding emails. The median people are hovering around 2-3 callbacks or so also with a ton of ding emails. At least in our case, there does not appear to be a lot of waiting around by other firms. Sure there are a handful we each haven't heard from, but it isn't a large number.

Edit: just heard back from a friend in the top 10%. This person has 15+ cbs lined up and has said he/she has not heard back either way from the other 10 or so screeners. So this may just be a top of the class problem not hearing back with rejections.

[Anonymous User]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

IDK about you but I 66% of my oci screeners have been confirmed dings. I had 30ish, 4 cbs and 20 dings. Waiting on a few more that have sent out cbs to others but radio silence. So essentially my oci is over. This is has been my experience at Duke and my friends. The dings are rolling in hard lately, almost always by email (heard of 1 letter but thats it).

If you don't mind me asking, what does your GPA look like?

This experience has not just been me, its been a group of close friends of mine as well. Our collective gpas range from median to about top 25% or so, journal for everyone, etc. Everyone is in the same boat. The top 25% or so person has 5 cbs and a vast amount of ding emails. The median people are hovering around 2-3 callbacks or so also with a ton of ding emails. At least in our case, there does not appear to be a lot of waiting around by other firms. Sure there are a handful we each haven't heard from, but it isn't a large number.

Edit: just heard back from a friend in the top 10%. This person has 15+ cbs lined up and has said he/she has not heard back either way from the other 10 or so screeners. So this may just be a top of the class problem not hearing back with rejections.

I'm guessing you and your friends bid largely DC?

[Anonymous User]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

IDK about you but I 66% of my oci screeners have been confirmed dings. I had 30ish, 4 cbs and 20 dings. Waiting on a few more that have sent out cbs to others but radio silence. So essentially my oci is over. This is has been my experience at Duke and my friends. The dings are rolling in hard lately, almost always by email (heard of 1 letter but thats it).

If you don't mind me asking, what does your GPA look like?

This experience has not just been me, its been a group of close friends of mine as well. Our collective gpas range from median to about top 25% or so, journal for everyone, etc. Everyone is in the same boat. The top 25% or so person has 5 cbs and a vast amount of ding emails. The median people are hovering around 2-3 callbacks or so also with a ton of ding emails. At least in our case, there does not appear to be a lot of waiting around by other firms. Sure there are a handful we each haven't heard from, but it isn't a large number.

Edit: just heard back from a friend in the top 10%. This person has 15+ cbs lined up and has said he/she has not heard back either way from the other 10 or so screeners. So this may just be a top of the class problem not hearing back with rejections.

I'm guessing you and your friends bid largely DC?

Some yes some no. In my case I split 50/50. My cbs are mostly dc and the rejections have tended to come from NYC firms. Some dc rejections but all mine that I have radio silence on are all DC places. This is consistent with my friends as well. We all did about 50/50 split with one exception doing more dc heavy.

[Anonymous User]

Did a CB two weeks ago and they said I should get a response last week. Nothing came so I expected a ding in the snail mail, e-mail today. All I got today was a form asking me to give them my race and vet status. Think I still have a chance?

[Anonymous User]

For what it's worth, a partner at a callback today told me that they had called back fewer people this year and are intending to have a smaller summer class.

[Anonymous User]

Only takes 1. Take heart.

I only got three CBs but one of them resulted in a Gibson callback and offer.

I am in a slightly different boat because of a joint-degree program but seriously, no need to hoard callbacks--just work really hard to convert them!

[Anonymous User]

Basically no one here knows whether they struck out yet or not. I know I have had almost 30 screeners over the past 10 days, I have one callback scheduled but i've only been dinged by 2 offices (both very small). Is there a chance that my cycle is done? Sure. But there is also a chance that (because I am applying in secondary markets with smaller classes, and not at the top school feeding into the market) I may still end up with another few chances once top choices make some final decisions.

IDK about you but I 66% of my oci screeners have been confirmed dings. I had 30ish, 4 cbs and 20 dings. Waiting on a few more that have sent out cbs to others but radio silence. So essentially my oci is over. This is has been my experience at Duke and my friends. The dings are rolling in hard lately, almost always by email (heard of 1 letter but thats it).

this isn't, as far as I can tell,what most ppl are seeing at my school in tx right now. when was duke oci? and you have 4 cbs still! that's great

[Anonymous User]

each ding email is like a kick to the gut. ''we met you, but didnt really like you'' (especially true when my GPA is way over their standard).

So far, I have 1 CB. Chances I can turn it into an offer?

[cron1834]

Wow, the voting surprises me after reading this (and a couple other) threads lately.

[El Pollito]

Wow, the voting surprises me after reading this (and a couple other) threads lately.

You're surprised that tlsers are faux overreacting as a thinly veiled ploy for affirmation that they're not failures?

[Johann]

jesus christ i hate law students. 75%+ with 4 cbs and they are bitching.

[NoBladesNoBows]

this is probably not the best place to ask this but i don't want to out myself. Is anybody going to the Latham NY happy hour tomorrow and if yes, what are you planning on wearing?

I had the same question. Full suit can't be right, right?

Can't ever go wrong with a full suit.

full suit would be ridiculous imo - Latham is business casual. Im thinking even a jacket would be too much.

Im stuck between khakis/button down and slacks/a nicer dress shirt

Please don't do khakis. Dress shirt/dress pants is most likely fine, but no khakis.

[NoBladesNoBows]

Wow, the voting surprises me after reading this (and a couple other) threads lately.

You're surprised that tlsers are faux overreacting as a thinly veiled ploy for affirmation that they're not failures?

[cron1834]

Silent majority is killing it, apparently. Score one for Nixon.

[WinSome]

The poll results are pretty funny. I gave the TLSers credit at the beginning of thread when everyone was bitching and thought that this might be different with the move to 180 and pre-OCI. I now see that the whining was uncalled for and this looks like about the same as last year, with the shutouts being more vocal earlier this year. Four callbacks doesn't guarantee anything, but it gives a great shot at biglaw. I was getting the vibe earlier in this thread that T6 median wasn't getting many CBs, but that is clearly not the case. Of course lower tier T14 at median has always been hit or miss, but the concerns of this thread were clearly overstated.

[Anonymous User]

Im still sitting here.. T10 median w/ 1 CB...