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Anonymous User wrote:The Law Consortium Hiring Criteria:
Boston College - Top 10%
Boston University - Top 10%
George Washington - Top 15%
Northwestern - Top 40%
University of Texas - Top 30%

I don't really have any feelings on this...just don't care I guess. But since most of TLS is secretly super concerned with prestige , I thought this was poast worthy. Though most big firms don't poast this outright, I'd imagine their hiring criteria is probably around these ranges for these schools.

byunbee wrote:are these the only schools PR hires from? isn't this list incomplete?

Anonymous User wrote:didn't know PR was preffftigious

byunbee wrote:
eh, they've got kind of an interesting thing going on--a lot of sports related stuff.

Anonymous User wrote:

byunbee wrote:
eh, they've got kind of an interesting thing going on--a lot of sports related stuff.

you should eat a lot of fibrous veggies and drink much water

thesealocust wrote:

markymark wrote:What about schools that prescreen and don't have a GPA/Class Rank?

How can they differentiate top 45% from top 40%?


Are these really "Hard" cutoffs?

None of these cutoffs are hard at all. One firm will say "top 10% preferred" but routinely hire down to median, another will say "median required" but only take students from top 3%, while others won't list anything at all. You have to get data from other sources.

As far as differentiating, they know exactly where people stand because of the huge #s of applicants they get coupled with rudimentary understanding of statistics.

markymark wrote:

thesealocust wrote:

markymark wrote:What about schools that prescreen and don't have a GPA/Class Rank?

How can they differentiate top 45% from top 40%?


Are these really "Hard" cutoffs?

None of these cutoffs are hard at all. One firm will say "top 10% preferred" but routinely hire down to median, another will say "median required" but only take students from top 3%, while others won't list anything at all. You have to get data from other sources.

As far as differentiating, they know exactly where people stand because of the huge #s of applicants they get coupled with rudimentary understanding of statistics.

Yea I get this, but I doubt anyone, even with huge applicant #s, could differentiate between top 45% and top 40% at Penn when there are no GPAs. It would take a lot of attorney time calculating an imaginary GPA for every applicant...

Desert Fox wrote:

markymark wrote:

thesealocust wrote:

markymark wrote:What about schools that prescreen and don't have a GPA/Class Rank?

How can they differentiate top 45% from top 40%?


Are these really "Hard" cutoffs?

None of these cutoffs are hard at all. One firm will say "top 10% preferred" but routinely hire down to median, another will say "median required" but only take students from top 3%, while others won't list anything at all. You have to get data from other sources.

As far as differentiating, they know exactly where people stand because of the huge #s of applicants they get coupled with rudimentary understanding of statistics.

Yea I get this, but I doubt anyone, even with huge applicant #s, could differentiate between top 45% and top 40% at Penn when there are no GPAs. It would take a lot of attorney time calculating an imaginary GPA for every applicant...

Anonymous User wrote:Boston College - Top 10%
Boston University - Top 10%
George Washington - Top 15%
Northwestern - Top 40%
University of Texas - Top 30%

mallard wrote:These seem generous ITE.

dresden doll wrote:

mallard wrote:These seem generous ITE.

I was about to say the same. I don't know that Proskauer will be courting CCN's median (which is what I assume would be the case if these digits were correct, since it presumably hires top 40 percent at NU).