bidding on firms when you don't meet the stated requirements Forum

[t3245]

waste of a bid? what if the stated requirement is top 15% and you're top 40%-go ahead and bid? lower tier 1

[270910]

PSA: When a firm lists its GPA preference and requirements, you should do the following: Ignore them entirely and mother fucking ask career services.

Firms lie through their god damned teeth on those things, and I want to keep harping on it, because it is VERY IMPORTANT TO YOUR CAREER PROSPECTS. The firms are lying or naive or outsourching their symplicity profiles to India or who knows what, but if you ask a 3 year old with a box of crayons to draw you the cut off for a firm you'll get a better answer than the firms published cutoff on your OCI software.

Firms aren't consistently high, or consistently low - they're just consistently full of shit. A firm that says "top third require" might hire to median, it might hire from the top 3% without exception, and there's even a remote chance it will hire from the top third. But those pieces of data simply cannot be relied upon /at all/. Not even in a cursory way. Not for comparison's sake, not when nothing else will do. You need to completely disregard them, and beg/borrow/steal data from career services. Your (and that's the royal 'your' for everyone out their reading in paranoid law student land) career depends on it.

[samiseaborn]

Yeah, I'm just the wrong side of 10%, but sending resumes to those that say top 10 only anyway.

[Anonymous User]

On a somewhat related note I applied to a firm way out of my league (Band 1 for IP in NYC) with not so spectacular grades from a T20 and managed to get pre-selected for an interview. What can I do to improve my chances and somehow blow them away during the interview that they forget about my grades etc. TYIA