Columbia EIP 2016 Forum

[hp1234]

Hey all, I am submitting my bids today as a transfer student (last day to submit) and was hoping for some last-minute feedback on my bid list. ......

Bid # Firm Name Office Location First Failed Bid (2015)
1 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom New York, NY 3
2 Debevoise & Plimpton LLP New York, NY 4
3 Kirkland & Ellis LLP New York, NY 1
4 Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP New York, NY 6
5 Ropes & Gray New York, NY 9
6 Clifford Chance New York, NY 6
7 Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP New York, NY 11
8 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton New York, NY 14
9 Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP New York, NY 15
10 Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP New York, NY 12
11 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP New York, NY 14
12 Latham & Watkins LLP New York, NY 17
13 Covington & Burling LLP Washington DC 20
14 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Palo Alto, CA 14
15 Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP New York, NY 17
16 Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP New York, NY 23
17 Shearman & Sterling LLP New York, NY *
18 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom Washington DC 20
19 Arnold & Porter LLP Washington DC 19
20 Steptoe & Johnson LLP Washington DC 25
21 Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP New York, NY 27
22 Jones Day New York, NY 24
23 Kirkland & Ellis LLP Washington DC 24
24 White & Case LLP Washington, DC 29
25 Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York, NY) New York, NY 24
26 Wilmerhale LLP Washington DC 27
27 O'Melveny & Myers LLP Washington DC *
28 Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Washington DC *
29 Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP New York, NY 30
30 Irell & Manella Los Angeles, CA *

So as an initial matter, you're not going to get the bids for firms in which their FFB is a number lower than where you placed them. You're not getting Kirkland at 3 when its FFB is 1, and you likely won't get A&P DC at 19, when its FFB is 19. You should really bid at least 2-4 spots above the firm's FFB number. For firms in your 1 through 10 slot, it might mean making some hard choices and cutting firms out of the top 10 slots in order to guarantee a screener.

[GoneSouth]

What's TCR for what to do if I missed getting a screener for a firm I want? Email the recruiter pre-EIP? Try to hit them up at EIP?

[kingpin101]

Is anyone else not seeing their schedule? It's not available but it was around noon.

[Anonymous User]

Is anyone else not seeing their schedule? It's not available but it was around noon.

Yeah same here. Saw mine around noon but now its gone.

[pinkiepie]

Is anyone else not seeing their schedule? It's not available but it was around noon.

Yeah same here. Saw mine around noon but now its gone.

Schedules are back.

[scubasteve1208]

How many interviews is everyone sitting at? Got 21. Don't know if that's a good, bad or average amount

[chasie]

I only got 10 interviews... Am I a goner, or?

[stoopkid13]

16 but I also know I threw away about 7 bids for hospitality suites so eh....

[Anonymous User]

25, but didn't have many firms with low FFB

[Anonymous User]

Sitting at 29 interviews.

If I want to drop a few interviews and let my friends have them, what is the most effective way to do that to make sure they aren't taken? It looks like the add period and drop period only overlap for about 4 hours?

[Anonymous User]

What do you do for interviews that are only 5 minutes apart?
Are interviewers understanding with being a few minutes late?

[Anonymous User]

Got 21 interviews. Missed a few that I wanted though. Missed Sidley at 3, Debevoise at 5, Simpson at 25, Shearman at 26. Anyone who got/missed these can you let me know where you had them?

[Anonymous User]

Got 21 interviews. Missed a few that I wanted though. Missed Sidley at 3, Debevoise at 5, Simpson at 25, Shearman at 26. Anyone who got/missed these can you let me know where you had them?

Got Sidley at 2, Debevoise at 3, and Shearman at 19

Missed Simpson at 23.

I was surprised I missed Akin at 11.

[Anonymous User]

Got 21 interviews. Missed a few that I wanted though. Missed Sidley at 3, Debevoise at 5, Simpson at 25, Shearman at 26. Anyone who got/missed these can you let me know where you had them?

Got Debevoise at 2, missed Shearman at 25.

[Anonymous User]

Missed Boies at 1, which sucks

[Anonymous User]

23 interviews here. Anyone get Paul Hastings?

Also could anyone speak to how the add/drop process works: (1) do you have to drop an interview in order to take on a new one? (2) could you simply switch time slots without having to drop a firm?

EDIT: for clarity

[stoopkid13]

Missed debevoise at 3 so guess we found that FFB...
got akin at 10.

[Tiago Splitter]

What do you do for interviews that are only 5 minutes apart?
Are interviewers understanding with being a few minutes late?

Take the stairs and you should be fine.

[Anonymous User]

Missed Boies at 1, which sucks

Missing Boies at 1 is not a big deal. I schmoozed at the hospitality suite and went straight to callback even though I missed it.

[Anonymous User]

missed Gibson DC at 11. wtf it was 18 last year.

[Anonymous User]

Got 21 interviews. Missed a few that I wanted though. Missed Sidley at 3, Debevoise at 5, Simpson at 25, Shearman at 26. Anyone who got/missed these can you let me know where you had them?

Missed simpson @ 22.

[Anonymous User]

Ended up with 22. Happy with results overall, but missed Weil at 4 and Akin at 11. Pleasantly surprised to get Kirkland at 3 though.

[Anonymous User]

Missed debevoise at 3 so guess we found that FFB...
got akin at 10.

I missed debevoise at 2. Really shocked.

[Anonymous User]

I only got 10 interviews... Am I a goner, or?

Yeah, I only got thirteen and I was thinking the same thing. Ideally we can pick up some more during the Add/Drop period.

[stoopkid13]

Missed debevoise at 3 so guess we found that FFB...
got akin at 10.

I missed debevoise at 2. Really shocked.

That's really weird because someone else said they got debevoise at 3 a few posts up.