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Anonymous User wrote:This is probably a question with an easy answer, but I was wondering if the CB-to-offer ration at any firms is published somewhere, or if it's just based on anecdotal evidence?

This board has a number of past posts about Dechert calling back tons of people and only giving offers to 30% or less. Where do these numbers come from?

Anonymous User wrote:Here are the %s for Fordham's OCI

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP 20%
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 83%
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 50%
Davis, Polk & Wardwell LLP 100%
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 86%
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 50%
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP 33%
Kirkland & Ellis LLP 83%
Latham & Watkins LLP 73%
Latham & Watkins LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 50%
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP 54%
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 43%
Sidley Austin LLP 71%
White & Case LLP 25%
Jones Day 50%
Arnold & Porter LLP 0%
WilmerHale LLP 20%
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP 78%
O'Melveny & Myers LLP 57%
Ropes & Gray LLP 82%
Ropes & Gray LLP
Clifford Chance US LLP 83%
Paul Hastings LLP
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Linklaters 44%
Mayer Brown LLP 88%
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP 29%
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP 32%
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 45%
Allen & Overy LLP 100%
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 43%
Baker Botts LLP 29%
Proskauer Rose LLP 25%
Proskauer Rose LLP 18%
Goodwin Procter LLP 83%
Winston & Strawn LLP 0%
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP 33%
King & Spalding LLP 33%
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP 79%
Bingham McCutchen LLP 33%
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 40%
Hogan Lovells LLP 100%
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP 60%
Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. 100%
Alston & Bird LLP 40%
Dechert LLP 78%
Vinson & Elkins LLP 0%
McDermott Will & Emery LLP - CORPORATE 0%
McDermott Will & Emery LLP - LITIGATION
K&L Gates LLP 50%
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP 100%
Greenberg Traurig LLP 100%
Cooley LLP 25%
Nixon Peabody LLP 29%
Holland & Knight LLP 100%
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Kaye Scholer LLP 71%
Bryan Cave LLP 17%
Crowell & Moring LLP 100%
Patton Boggs LLP 50%
Patton Boggs LLP
Arent Fox PLLC 67%
Chadbourne & Parke LLP 20%
Hunton & Williams LLP 0%
Venable LLP
Baker & Hostetler LLP 100%
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP 53%
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 56%
Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky LLP 50%
Blank Rome LLP 33%
Bracewell & Giuliani LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP 20%
Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP 40%
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP 57%
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP 17%
Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP 100%
Troutman Sanders LLP
Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP 17%
Olshan Grundman Frome Rosenzweig & Wolosky LLP 67%
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP 40%
Duane Morris & Hecksher LLP 25%
Seward & Kissel LLP 17%
Fox Rothschild LLP 43%
Riker, Danzig, Scherer, Hyland & Perretti LLP 67%
Vedder, Price, Kauffman & Kammholz P.C. 50%
Herrick, Feinstein LLP 50%
Cullen and Dykman LLP 50%
Mound, Cotton, Wollan & Greengrass 0%
Pryor Cashman LLP 43%
Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP 80%
Wiggin and Dana LLP 0%
Cole, Schotz, Meisel, Forman & Leonard, P.A. 17%
Brown Rudnick LLP 25%
Hahn & Hessen LLP 0%
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP 20%
Haynes and Boone, LLP 100%
Schiff Hardin LLP 50%
Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C. 0%
Day Pitney LLP
Otterbourg, Steindler, Houston & Rosen P.C. 0%
Lowenstein Sandler PC 0%
Porzio, Bromberg & Newman, P.C. 0%
Shipman & Goodwin LLP 0%

Perseus_I wrote: Dechert at 78%? Something sounds screwy about that.

Anonymous User wrote:Those Fordham CB/Offer ratio seems absurdly high. Most firms are over 50%. Do they only CB superstars at Fordham?

Anonymous User wrote:Completely forgot Fordham was preselect. That would explain the high CB/Offer ratio.

Anonymous User wrote:No something is definitely off with some of those numbers. DPW for sure, as I had a CB with them and did not get an offer - and was at their CB reception with around 10 other Fordham students, only 2 of whom (maybe 3 max) got offers. As was already said, typically not super selective at the callback stage so they'll bring in a fair amount of people, but only ~1/3 or so translate to offers

Anonymous User wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:No something is definitely off with some of those numbers. DPW for sure, as I had a CB with them and did not get an offer - and was at their CB reception with around 10 other Fordham students, only 2 of whom (maybe 3 max) got offers. As was already said, typically not super selective at the callback stage so they'll bring in a fair amount of people, but only ~1/3 or so translate to offers

Yeah DPW is off - I'm the anon who posted the data, that one used the wrong column. It's 13 CBs - 3 Offers (Making it 23%). I'll check the other high ones, but I think that was an isolated error

ETA: Went through the list and pretty sure it's the only time that happened.

And Re: Dechert - their data is correct. 9 accepted CBs and 7 got offers. But they only seem to make offers/CBs to the cream of the crop who are out of their league anyway, evidenced by the fact that only 1 person accepted the offer, and more than half of the people offered CBs (20 CB offers) didn't take them.

Perseus_I wrote:
Wait, how could Dechert be out of anyone's league at Fordham? Columbia, maybe. Doesn't Fordham require at least top 20% to be even considered by the crap NLJ 250 firms? Dechert is not Cravath, but it's definitely up there.

If anyone says differently, I am going to start kicking myself for taking a full ride to UT over a full ride to Fordham since NYC is the only place I want to work.

Anonymous User wrote:

Perseus_I wrote:
Wait, how could Dechert be out of anyone's league at Fordham? Columbia, maybe. Doesn't Fordham require at least top 20% to be even considered by the crap NLJ 250 firms? Dechert is not Cravath, but it's definitely up there.

If anyone says differently, I am going to start kicking myself for taking a full ride to UT over a full ride to Fordham since NYC is the only place I want to work.

Weirdest /humblebrag I've seen in a while

Perseus_I wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

Perseus_I wrote:
Wait, how could Dechert be out of anyone's league at Fordham? Columbia, maybe. Doesn't Fordham require at least top 20% to be even considered by the crap NLJ 250 firms? Dechert is not Cravath, but it's definitely up there.

If anyone says differently, I am going to start kicking myself for taking a full ride to UT over a full ride to Fordham since NYC is the only place I want to work.

Weirdest /humblebrag I've seen in a while

Not really. I am actually seriously disappointed at the moment and do not consider myself a star by any means. Basically a terrible interviewer with ok grades. After being hammered nonstop about ties at 15 NYC interviews, I really do regret going to UT and would even have considered schools like Cardozo or Brooklyn (debt free - I do not believe in education debt) were I to do this process over again.

Anonymous User wrote:

Perseus_I wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:

Perseus_I wrote:
Wait, how could Dechert be out of anyone's league at Fordham? Columbia, maybe. Doesn't Fordham require at least top 20% to be even considered by the crap NLJ 250 firms? Dechert is not Cravath, but it's definitely up there.

If anyone says differently, I am going to start kicking myself for taking a full ride to UT over a full ride to Fordham since NYC is the only place I want to work.

Weirdest /humblebrag I've seen in a while

Not really. I am actually seriously disappointed at the moment and do not consider myself a star by any means. Basically a terrible interviewer with ok grades. After being hammered nonstop about ties at 15 NYC interviews, I really do regret going to UT and would even have considered schools like Cardozo or Brooklyn (debt free - I do not believe in education debt) were I to do this process over again.

Grades?

Perseus_I wrote:
Top 25-15% + Law Review? I am not sure exactly since we don't rank.