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So we get 50 bids, but supposedly only an average of 10 interviews. Since it's based purely on lottery, should we even worry about the bids after, say, 20?

My spouse and I would be happy in Texas, Atlanta, Minneapolis, or DC. Should I bid with the the secondary market firms (the easier ones to get interviews) spread throughout the 50 and put the DC firms sprinkled among them? Or should I just chalk up the DC firms and pound the secondary markets (or maybe just one) in those top 20 or so and then just randomly throw firms in after that?

Would appreciate any help you have.

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Thanks for the info. I saw your post from last year about only getting 10 interviews, and that made me seriously doubt my bidding strategy, so I made this post. Luckily, I have ties to those markets, so I'm just worried about maximizing interviews. Problem is, many firms in those markets are interviewing for dc/ny in the same slot, so it gets hammered.

Here's the list I had before I started doubting (generally... the numbers I put in based on 'feel' and then sorted, so there are duplicates). Any other thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

Firm Bid (approx) Offices
Haynes and Boone 1 Austin, Dallas, Houston
Alston & Bird 2 Dallas, Atlanta, DC
Fried, Frank 3 DC
Vinson & Elkins 4 Dallas, Houston, DC
Patton Boggs 5 Dallas, DC
Crowell & Moring 6 DC
King & Spalding 7 Atlanta, DC
WilmerHale 8 DC
hogan lovells 9 DC
Locke Lord Bissell 9 Austin, Dallas, Houston
Jones Day 10 Atlanta, DC
Baker Hostetler 10 Houston
Bryan Cave 10 Atlanta, DC
Akin Gump 10 DC
Mayer Brown 11 Houston, DC
Baker Botts 11 Dallas, Houston, DC
Gibson, Dunn 11 Dallas, DC
Hughes Hubbard 11 DC
Jones Day 12 Dallas, Houston
Latham & Watkins 12 Houston
Latham & Watkins 12 DC
Reed Smith 12 Falls Church, DC
Holland & Knight 13 Atlanta, McLean, DC
Sutherland 13 DC
Cooley Godward 14 Reston, DC
K&L Gates 14 DC
Hunton & Williams 15 Dallas, Atlanta, DC, Richmond(?)
Pillsbury Winthrop 15 DC
McGuire Woods 15 Richmond, DC
Wilson Sonsini 17 Austin, DC
McKenna Long 17 DC
Watt, Tieder 18 McLean
K&L Gates 19 Dallas
hogan lovells 20 McLean
Robins, Kaplan 21 Minneapolis
Baker Hostetler 22 DC
Cadwalader 25 DC
Morrison &Foerster 26 McLean, DC
Maslon, Edelman 26 Minneapolis
Paul, Hastings 27 Atlanta, DC
Arent Fox 27 DC
clifford chance 28 DC
Dorsey & Whitney 33 Minneapolis
Fish & Richardson 33 Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Minneapolis, DC
Chadbourne Parke 34 DC
Dechert 35 Austin
Epstein Becker 41 Atlanta, DC
Foley & Lardner 41 DC
Morgan, Lewis 44 DC
Morgan, Lewis 45 Houston, Dallas
McDermott 50 Houston