GPA requirements for these firms Forum

[Anonymous User]

MVP. Assuming no LR. What are ballpark GPA requirements for the DC offices at these firms:


Arnold Porter
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider
Beveridge & Diamond
dla piper
freshfields bruckhaus deringer
Ivins, Phillips & Barker
LeClairRyan
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville

[bdubs]

MVP. Assuming no LR. What are ballpark GPA requirements for the DC offices at these firms:


Arnold Porter
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider
Beveridge & Diamond
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Ivins, Phillips & Barker
LeClairRyan
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville

Where the hell did you come up with this list? It seems totally random.

Also, MVP have entirely different curves. The GPA reqs will vary between the three.

[portaprokoss]

MVP. Assuming no LR. What are ballpark GPA requirements for the DC offices at these firms:


Arnold Porter
Axinn Veltrop & Harkrider
Beveridge & Diamond
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Ivins, Phillips & Barker
LeClairRyan
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville

Where the hell did you come up with this list? It seems totally random.

Also, MVP have entirely different curves. The GPA reqs will vary between the three.

lol, M. These are list of firms interviewing for DC for which I do not have GPA information.

[bdubs]

A&P is relatively grade selective at NU. It seems slightly less grade sensitive than some of the other big DC offices (WilmerHale, Covington) but still up there. I would use them as a benchmark since the differences most years are small.

I don't know about the other firms.

[wiseowl]

I don't have any GPA info but you should be aware that Ivins is a tax boutique and Beveridge pretty much only does environmental litigation.

Take it from someone who's been there - don't interview with those two if you don't have the background.

[Anonymous User]

I was a summer associate at A&P, so here are some thoughts.

A&P is very grade selective (at least top ten percent usually--I think I was in the top 5-10%) but is also very picky about "fit." It only has a class size of about 25, and generally that allows it to take only about one student per top 14 school. [There are exceptions to this: I believe last summer it had 5-6 summers from Yale (including two Rhodes Scholars(!)), and the summer before that it had 5-6 summer associates from Harvard. But aside from multiple students from HYS, there are usually only 1-2 students from the other top schools.] A&P puts a serious emphasis on personality and looks for people who connect with their interviewers and will fit well in a laidback, unpretentious, but professional, firm culture. If you meet the grade threshold and click with your interviewers, you could definitely score a callback over students with higher grades.

Hope this helps.

[Anonymous User]

I was a summer associate at A&P, so here are some thoughts.

A&P is very grade selective (at least top ten percent usually--I think I was in the top 5-10%) but is also very picky about "fit." It only has a class size of about 25, and generally that allows it to take only about one student per top 14 school. [There are exceptions to this: I believe last summer it had 5-6 summers from Yale (including two Rhodes Scholars(!)), and the summer before that it had 5-6 summer associates from Harvard. But aside from multiple students from HYS, there are usually only 1-2 students from the other top schools.] A&P puts a serious emphasis on personality and looks for people who connect with their interviewers and will fit well in a laidback, unpretentious, but professional, firm culture. If you meet the grade threshold and click with your interviewers, you could definitely score a callback over students with higher grades.

Hope this helps.

this is true of W&C, Wilmer, and Covington as well

they take 1-2 students from all the T14's (usually kids in the top 10%) except for Harvard/Yale (where they take about 5-6)

Stanford is not usually overrepresented in DC as much as Harvard and Yale

[jess]

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[Arbiter213]

does w&c refer to williams & connolly or white & case?

In the context of this conversation that answer should be obvious, but to help you out: Williams & Connolly

[Anonymous User]

does w&c refer to williams & connolly or white & case?

W&C = williams & connolly

no one really cares enough about white & case to talk about them

[jess]

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