Starting to look at OCI firm profiles. Some say top 1/3 required or something equivalent in nature. Two questions:
1. What is top 1/3. I am extremely math challenged right now. My school only releases grading guidelines and does not tell you class rank. Let's say this is the breakdown given by the school
A & A +: Top 10%
A-: Next 20%
B+: Next 35%
B: Next 25%
Is anything below an A- equivalent GPA not going to be top 30%? That would be assuming that everyone in the top 30% never got below an A-, though, right? Anyways, can someone give me some guidance on this.
2. Are these cutoffs firm? Is it worth even bidding on a firm that has such a cutoff? As an example, a firm at my school has such a cutoff but info from career services suggests they have gone as low as a 3.0 within the past 5 or so years. Have their hiring credentials changed? Are they just blowing smoke?
Appreciate any thoughts.
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Re: OCI Bidding & Cutoff Question
Anonymous User wrote: 2. Are these cutoffs firm? Is it worth even bidding on a firm that has such a cutoff? As an example, a firm at my school has such a cutoff but info from career services suggests they have gone as low as a 3.0 within the past 5 or so years. Have their hiring credentials changed? Are they just blowing smoke?
thesealocust wrote:A wise and insightful person once wrote:
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 outsourcing 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 firm's 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 required" 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 there reading in paranoid law student land) career depends on it.
