UChicago OCI 2014 Forum

[Anonymous User]

Are you more likely, generally, to get an offer from a callback than a callback from a screener?

[20141023]

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[Anonymous User]

Are you more likely, generally, to get an offer from a callback than a callback from a screener?

I've found screener->callback much easier than CB->offer. I think if you choose firms wisely initially and meet the grade cutoff you are quite likely to get a callback, whereas converting CBs into offers is way trickier. Then again, that really varies by firm: some will offer upwards of 90% of their cb candidates, others less than 40%.

[Anonymous User]

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

Wondering this too. Plus Proskauer, Milbank.

This is what I had thought about some other places, but it just turned out that non-TLSers had received CBs and not told anyone about it. I would be surprised if that weren't the case here as well.

I'm screwed.

[Anonymous User]

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

Wondering this too. Plus Proskauer, Milbank.

This is what I had thought about some other places, but it just turned out that non-TLSers had received CBs and not told anyone about it. I would be surprised if that weren't the case here as well.

I'm screwed.

Yea, the last two posts firmly place me in that category as well.

[Anonymous User]

Or it could be that the screener for one or more of those just got unusually busy. Proskauer at least told people it would be two days - and they only interviewed on Thursday. I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't get to the calls today.

Or maybe they did and we just haven't heard. But I'm not giving up hope til end of day tomorrow.

Are you more likely, generally, to get an offer from a callback than a callback from a screener?

As far as I know, the general consensus is that callbacks (particularly from firms out of town) mean that they are much more likely to hire you - after all, there's a fair amount of monetary investment in flying a student in, putting them up in a hotel, and taking them to lunch. However, exactly how much more likely is really hard to tell.

Kirkland, for example, calls back roughly a third of their screeners, or 30-odd people. Last year, they had something like 17 U of C kids in their summer class. This means that conservatively, they must have made offers to at least half the people they called back. They probably had to make offers to more than that, because some people likely turned them down for Sidley or Barack or Susman or whatever based on personal preference. So there's no way to say, your chance goes from one in three to one in two. But it does go up by at least that much.

I've also heard gossip that the large NYC firms have percentages that are more like 3 in 4 - as in, they make offers to something like 3 in 4 of the people they callback.

[Anonymous User]

Or it could be that the screener for one or more of those just got unusually busy. Proskauer at least told people it would be two days - and they only interviewed on Thursday. I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't get to the calls today.

Or maybe they did and we just haven't heard. But I'm not giving up hope til end of day tomorrow.

Friend got proskauer today. I'm crushed too.

[Anonymous User]

Any news on Hughes Hubbard, Cadwalader, or Fried Frank - all NYC offices? I'm still holding out hope at least another day for Cadwalader and FF

[Rahviveh]

Or it could be that the screener for one or more of those just got unusually busy. Proskauer at least told people it would be two days - and they only interviewed on Thursday. I wouldn't be surprised if they just didn't get to the calls today.

Or maybe they did and we just haven't heard. But I'm not giving up hope til end of day tomorrow.

Are you more likely, generally, to get an offer from a callback than a callback from a screener?

As far as I know, the general consensus is that callbacks (particularly from firms out of town) mean that they are much more likely to hire you - after all, there's a fair amount of monetary investment in flying a student in, putting them up in a hotel, and taking them to lunch. However, exactly how much more likely is really hard to tell.

Kirkland, for example, calls back roughly a third of their screeners, or 30-odd people. Last year, they had something like 17 U of C kids in their summer class. This means that conservatively, they must have made offers to at least half the people they called back. They probably had to make offers to more than that, because some people likely turned them down for Sidley or Barack or Susman or whatever based on personal preference. So there's no way to say, your chance goes from one in three to one in two. But it does go up by at least that much.

I've also heard gossip that the large NYC firms have percentages that are more like 3 in 4 - as in, they make offers to something like 3 in 4 of the people they callback.

Reposting this: CB/offer ratios from CLS

https://docs.google.com/a/uchicago.edu/ ... =399774523

[Anonymous User]

Any news on Hughes Hubbard, Cadwalader, or Fried Frank - all NYC offices? I'm still holding out hope at least another day for Cadwalader and FF

Hughes Hubbard gave callbacks within a day of screeners.

[Anonymous User]

Any news on Hughes Hubbard, Cadwalader, or Fried Frank - all NYC offices? I'm still holding out hope at least another day for Cadwalader and FF

Hughes Hubbard gave callbacks within a day of screeners.

I'm screwed.

[Anonymous User]

I've found that CB>offer is easier than screener>CB. With a screener you need to impress one or max two people whereas with CBs you have 4-5 to work on. It's more forgiving. Plus as someone else said here, at the CB level they're not looking to weed out people in quite the same way (or to the same degree) as with screeners.

[Anonymous User]

Any news on Hughes Hubbard, Cadwalader, or Fried Frank - all NYC offices? I'm still holding out hope at least another day for Cadwalader and FF

Hughes Hubbard gave callbacks within a day of screeners.

I'm screwed.

+1 I'm so fucked

[Anonymous User]

official PW email ding. AF

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DAT HOPE

[Anonymous User]

Anyone received or heard of an Irell cb?

[Anonymous User]

Proskauer ding

[Anonymous User]

Proskauer ding

Was that for NYC? Via email? And did they only have one set of interviewers?

[Anonymous User]

Proskauer ding

Was that for NYC? Via email? And did they only have one set of interviewers?

I'm not the earlier anon, but I also got an email ding - Proskauer NY - and yeah they had only one interviewer.

[Anonymous User]

Proskauer ding

Was that for NYC? Via email? And did they only have one set of interviewers?

NYC. Email.

[Anonymous User]

Any movement from Cadwalader ny or dc?

[Anonymous User]

Cadwalader NY CB yesterday evening. JM

[Anonymous User]

Skadden NY Ding AF/SS

[Anonymous User]

So what does it mean if both dings and CBs go out and you have neither?

[Anonymous User]

Schiff Chi ding. LB

[WhiteyCakes]

So what does it mean if both dings and CBs go out and you have neither?

Dude didn't OCS just send an email about this?