GW OCI 2014 - Meh? Forum

[Anonymous User]

Nixon Peabody post-cb ding

[Anonymous User]

Anything recently? I'm basically struck out, but hoping for my class mates.

[Anonymous User]

Still waiting post screener for Finnegan & Milbank DC. Rude.

[Anonymous User]

Just got a snail mail ding from Christie Parker Hale thanking me for interviewing with them.

I never got selected for a screener.

[Anonymous User]

Any word from Fish & Richardson?

[Anonymous User]

Any word from Simpson Thacher (DC)?

[misanthrope]

All offers at GULC for Simpson have gone out. Friend said Simpson seemed to be finished with recruiting a few weeks ago.

[Anonymous User]

As someone who has just been admitted to GW, curious about how OCI bids work at GW?

Is it completely dependent on GPA? They don't care about LSAT/Undergrad GPA?

Thx

[Anonymous User]

Completely GPA and a bloodbath. Don't come here.

[Avian]

As someone who has just been admitted to GW, curious about how OCI bids work at GW?

Is it completely dependent on GPA? They don't care about LSAT/Undergrad GPA?

Thx

I don't know if any OCI employers care about your LSAT or Undergrad GPA.

[postard]

Some firms will ask for your undergraduate transcript (especially for IP positions), but I think its more to see relevant course work than for the GPA. What school your going to is a pretty good proxy for that.

[Anonymous User]

So OCI seems to have gone very poorly this year...Any sense of whether GW is still IPSecure?

[Anonymous User]

The school admitted 100 more in the entering class and admitted a 100 person transfer class. They're doubling down going forward. Avoid.

[fltanglab]

So OCI seems to have gone very poorly this year...Any sense of whether GW is still IPSecure?

Yes. IP 2Ls did really well. I think better than last year.

[Anonymous User]

Did people really feel like OCI was more of a bloodbath than usual? To be clear, OCI at GW is always a bloodbath--I think only 20% get an SA, which is a reasonable estimate when one considers GW's information on LST--but I'm not convinced this year was worse than that. Seemed like GW scholars got offers generally, upper-crust of TM got offers at like a 50/50 rate, and past that it was a crapshoot other than IP kids.

Also, to future GW students reading this thread--if you want biglaw, you need to bid in the NY regional. This is particularly true if you are upper TM, think top 15%-top 25%. I don't care if you don't want to live in NYC. I know multiple people with decent-to-great credentials who got no callbacks in DC but several in NYC. You will not be an exception to this rule.

[Anonymous User]

Did people really feel like OCI was more of a bloodbath than usual? To be clear, OCI at GW is always a bloodbath--I think only 20% get an SA, which is a reasonable estimate when one considers GW's information on LST--but I'm not convinced this year was worse than that. Seemed like GW scholars got offers generally, upper-crust of TM got offers at like a 50/50 rate, and past that it was a crapshoot other than IP kids.

Also, to future GW students reading this thread--if you want biglaw, you need to bid in the NY regional. This is particularly true if you are upper TM, think top 15%-top 25%. I don't care if you don't want to live in NYC. I know multiple people with decent-to-great credentials who got no callbacks in DC but several in NYC. You will not be an exception to this rule.

This is all 100% accurate.

[Anonymous User]

Soooo...Howard put more into NLJ 250 in the Class of 2014 than GW...

TTTT>>"T20"?

(Granted, NLJ250 undercounts so we should wait for LST scores, but still, this is quite the symbol)

[Anonymous User]

I think the increase in class size really fucked some of us over.

Meh. Howard has a ton of URM and they consistently outperform their rankings.

Honestly, gw placed about the same percentage into big law last 3 years. always between 20%-22%