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Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:03 pm

Disregard

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote:Top 20% at a Midwestern T25. Just found out today that I will not be on a journal. I honestly have no idea how, because it was my understanding that getting on one was pretty easy, and I put forth a good effort. I will likely still do moot court, but tryouts aren't until after OCI.

How much will this affect me at OCI? It has always been my understanding that getting on a journal isn't really a big deal, but it can hurt you if there isn't one on your resume. A lot of jobs say "journal preferred" and things like that. Am I screwed?

(note: If you know who I am, and I suspect some of you will figure it out, please just keep it to yourself.)

~~Did you get an email about it or did all of the other journals just hear already and you didn't hear anything? I haven't heard anything except that one came out last night.~~ 99% sure I know who you are... you can probably guess who I am just based on the usage rate of the rest of our class

Edit: well there's no way in hell I wrote onto LR and everyone else has heard, so guess that confirms loli'mfucked. Someone answer this question so I know whether to /self or not, since me and OP are twins.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:20 pm

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:42 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Did you get an email about it or did all of the other journals just hear already and you didn't hear anything? I haven't heard anything except that one came out last night. 99% sure I know who you are... you can probably guess who I am just based on the usage rate of the rest of our class
I just called the publications office and they said "All invites should have been sent." I'm guessing I know who you are and what school you're from. I still haven't gotten denied, but all three journals have supposedly made decisions. If that's not the case, I will be penning a NASTY email to the administration for the horrible mismanagement of this entire process (rolling out half the decisions and then letting everyone else languish in the dark??? WTF?)

I guess there is a slim, slim, sliiiiiiiim chance I got LR (which hasn't been announced, to the best of my knowledge), but can anybody give me some honest advice as to what I should do without journal and how I can possibly make up for it in an interview? How screwed am I?

edit: The weird thing is that I know of three other people who were outside top 10%, inside top 25%, who have not heard. And based on who I think you are, wouldn't it be safe to say that you are in this boat as well? I figured you graded on, even despite your rough second semester.

Yeah, I'm just inside top 20% too. lulz I thought I was going to, up until the grades started rolling in and I got my shit medianpwned this semester. I won't weigh in with my opinion on what I'd think about the state of things if I managed to write on (since it'd make me look like a dick), but seriously, what I wrote? It. Was. Bad. I didn't write on. But I thought like 80% of the class was on one of the journals journal so now I'm like HTF did I miss

And yeah, I know this is TLS and every single person here is either top 10% at UVA or on Columbia's law review, but there have to be some rising 3Ls/recent grads out there somewhere who can talk about this.

ndirish2010 · Post by **ndirish2010** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 3:44 pm

Assuming UIUC?

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Tue Jun 28, 2011 11:56 pm

Not having a journal on your resume can hurt you? I'm a bit skeptic of that. I certainly don't think you are doomed if you don't have it come OCI. Wouldn't grades be more important/looked at first then whatever journal you want/get? I guess it depends if one writes on or not?

traehekat · Post by **traehekat** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:17 am

Anonymous User wrote:Not having a journal on your resume can hurt you? I'm a bit skeptic of that. I certainly don't think you are doomed if you don't have it come OCI. Wouldn't grades be more important/looked at first then whatever journal you want/get? I guess it depends if one writes on or not?

Of course it is going to hurt you a little. Anything that is beneficial and a significant number of other students have that you don't is going to hurt. It's the same logic that applies to grades. How much it hurts I really don't know, but I'm sure it does at least a bit.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 12:30 am

traehekat wrote:
Anonymous User wrote:Not having a journal on your resume can hurt you? I'm a bit skeptic of that. I certainly don't think you are doomed if you don't have it come OCI. Wouldn't grades be more important/looked at first then whatever journal you want/get? I guess it depends if one writes on or not?
Of course it is going to hurt you a little. Anything that is beneficial and a significant number of other students have that you don't is going to hurt. It's the same logic that applies to grades. How much it hurts I really don't know, but I'm sure it does at least a bit.

Sure, its beneficial, I'm not saying that it isn't. How will a significant number of other students have it on their resume when it is already competitive/limited to those who can join? Depends on how many are selected, and what type of journal it is - though some may argue a journal is a journal. Also, when OP said "thought getting on was pretty easy" got me confused. Nothing in law school is "pretty easy".

Kilpatrick · Post by **Kilpatrick** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:08 am

ndirish2010 wrote:Assuming UIUC?

No, we don't find out until late July

ndirish2010 · Post by **ndirish2010** » Wed Jun 29, 2011 10:09 am

Interesting haha, we don't until July 15.

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