UChicago OCI 2014 Forum

[Anonymous User]

Paul Hastings Chi ding by email- BR

[Anonymous User]

Skadden Chi CB (Phone)-- FP

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[20141023]

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[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss NY email ding. K&E/LR/2y WE.

Interviewer seemed to decide I wasn't going to get the CB within five seconds of me walking in the room. Anyone else had this happen? I'm pretty sure it isn't grades or handshake... if it's something fixable, I'd love to know.

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Paul Weiss NY email ding. K&E/LR/2y WE.

Interviewer seemed to decide I wasn't going to get the CB within five seconds of me walking in the room. Anyone else had this happen? I'm pretty sure it isn't grades or handshake... if it's something fixable, I'd love to know.

Are you doing fine with CBs else wise? You're going to miss some firms. It's the name of the game.

[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss NY email ding. K&E/LR/2y WE.

Interviewer seemed to decide I wasn't going to get the CB within five seconds of me walking in the room. Anyone else had this happen? I'm pretty sure it isn't grades or handshake... if it's something fixable, I'd love to know.

At another CCN, received CB's and offers throughout the V10 & from several more selective firms than PW but they email dinged me post-screener as well, and I too felt DOA. There's definitely a je ne sais quoi with them but this is also a random process

[Anonymous User]

Paul Weiss NY email ding. K&E/LR/2y WE.

Interviewer seemed to decide I wasn't going to get the CB within five seconds of me walking in the room. Anyone else had this happen? I'm pretty sure it isn't grades or handshake... if it's something fixable, I'd love to know.

Are you doing fine with CBs else wise? You're going to miss some firms. It's the name of the game.

Yea I'm doing fine elsewhere. It just didn't feel very good to walk in and feel decided against from the get-go. If it was something silly like having languages in my interests section (cf. that silly thread) or not saying some particular formality, stuff that I could fix easily, I wanted to know as most of my top firms are still coming up later this week. I know no one is going to get every CB (well, maybe some people are) but I still don't want to torpedo an option for a dumb, easily correctable mistake.

Paul Weiss NY email ding. K&E/LR/2y WE.

Interviewer seemed to decide I wasn't going to get the CB within five seconds of me walking in the room. Anyone else had this happen? I'm pretty sure it isn't grades or handshake... if it's something fixable, I'd love to know.

At another CCN, received CB's and offers throughout the V10 & from several more selective firms than PW but they email dinged me post-screener as well, and I too felt DOA. There's definitely a je ne sais quoi with them but this is also a random process

Thanks - appreciate hearing this.

[2014]

Yeah it just happens sometimes, unfortunately callbacks are not always as merit based as you might want. They might have mentally given all their cbs before you walked in the door, maybe their blackberry went off with a fire drill as you walked in the door, maybe they really needed coffee, maybe they wanted a different diversity demographic for some portion of their CBs than you were, maybe they were yield protecting, etc. Most of the time it is your fault but if you are doing well elsewhere in this case it probably wasn't.

Fortunately across 20+ interviews you will be the beneficiary of this randomness in several cases. Unfortunately you can't predict when this will be which is why it's absolutely crucial to not get mentally invested in a firm till an offer or at least a CB is in hand. I learned this the hard way last year haha

[Anonymous User]

Susman Houston CB. RH/LC. Email.

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WH NY ding

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Boies NY CB. Email.

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PW CB's - did y'all get your emails following up yet? I haven't gotten mine but was told I would receive it today.

[Anonymous User]

PW CB's - did y'all get your emails following up yet? I haven't gotten mine but was told I would receive it today.

I got mine today.

[Anonymous User]

PW CB's - did y'all get your emails following up yet? I haven't gotten mine but was told I would receive it today.

+1 no email received, think we should contact the Recruiting Dept? Idk what to do

[Anonymous User]

PW CB's - did y'all get your emails following up yet? I haven't gotten mine but was told I would receive it today.

+1 no email received, think we should contact the Recruiting Dept? Idk what to do

I just shot 'em an email, doubt you need to too, one is probably enough

Thanks to both of you for replying

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PW CB's - did y'all get your emails following up yet? I haven't gotten mine but was told I would receive it today.

+1 no email received, think we should contact the Recruiting Dept? Idk what to do

I just shot 'em an email, doubt you need to too, one is probably enough

Thanks to both of you for replying

just got email

[Anonymous User]

Jones Day NYC CB, RA. Phone

[Anonymous User]

Jones Day Chi CBs are going out. I haven't heard yet to it seems like it's based on interviewer.

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Now to wait and hope that JD's other offices make calls soon (and that I get one)...

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nvm

[Anonymous User]

Miller shakman CB. Phone, earlier today.

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BB DC ding email

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Bryan Cave ding, via email. KH.

[Anonymous User]

Any news on Fried Frank? They seem uncharacteristically slow for a NYC firm.

[Anonymous User]

Any news on Fried Frank? They seem uncharacteristically slow for a NYC firm.

Wondering this too. Plus Proskauer, Milbank.