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Let's try this again. Can someone comment on this partial bid list? Low GPA so looking for big classes and/or flexiblity on cut offs. Which ones am I missing? Which ones should not be here a all? Which should I move up or dowm?

Info: GULC, URM (latino, lgbt), 3.09, above average legal experience pre-law school (though not extraordinary). Great personality (or so I've been told by my mom).

Thanks!

1 Kramer Levin NYC
2 Schulte Roth NYC
3 Paul Hastings NYC
4 Winston Strawn NYC
5 Seward Kissel NYC
6 Stroock NYC
7 Greenberg Traurig NYC
8 Pryor Cashman NYC
9 DLA Piper NYC
10 Kelley Drye NYC
11 Curtis Mallet NYC
12 Norton Rose NYC
13 Morgan Lewis NYC
14 Fried Frank NYC
15 Baker Hostetler NYC
16 Holland Knight DC
17 Squire Patton DC
18 Venable DC
19 Linklaters London
20 Freshfields London
21 Allen & Overy London
22 Weil Gotshal NYC
23 White Case NYC

I mean, the list is better in that you're targeting NYC with more realistic firms now, but you're still in a pretty bad hole.

A lot of the firms on the top of your list have pretty small classes, and your GPA is like bottom 20% bad, at a school that already has hundreds of people trying to do BigLaw.

I wouldn't be surprised if you strike out.

UnemployedHoya wrote:Let's try this again. Can someone comment on this partial bid list? Low GPA so looking for big classes and/or flexiblity on cut offs. Which ones am I missing? Which ones should not be here a all? Which should I move up or dowm?

Info: GULC, URM (latino, lgbt), 3.09, above average legal experience pre-law school (though not extraordinary). Great personality (or so I've been told by my mom).

Thanks!

1 Kramer Levin NYC
2 Schulte Roth NYC
3 Paul Hastings NYC
4 Winston Strawn NYC
5 Seward Kissel NYC
6 Stroock NYC
7 Greenberg Traurig NYC
8 Pryor Cashman NYC
9 DLA Piper NYC
10 Kelley Drye NYC
11 Curtis Mallet NYC
12 Norton Rose NYC
13 Morgan Lewis NYC
14 Fried Frank NYC
15 Baker Hostetler NYC
16 Holland Knight DC
17 Squire Patton DC
18 Venable DC
19 Linklaters London
20 Freshfields London
21 Allen & Overy London
22 Weil Gotshal NYC
23 White Case NYC

No clue why any London firms are on there

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No clue why you have Holland & Knight DC on there. They usually take literally 1 or 2 summers. Agreed that the London firms also make zero sense.

Lets be real here OP- you are in a bad position grade wise. You are a prime candidate to strike out. You need to put your full effort on not selective NYC firms with HUGE summer classes. Any other bid is likely a waste. You can and should still mass mail the dc, boston, chicago, and even London offices, but OCI needs to be focused on the huge NYC summer classes to have a shot,

Fried Frank should be significantly higher.

I'm not giving substantive feedback 'till your 3rd thread

Morgan Lewis should be your number 1....put Greenberg much higher at like number 4...take out Winston Strawn...

sparkytrainer wrote: You need to put your full effort on not selective NYC firms with HUGE summer classes. Any other bid is likely a waste.
...OCI needs to be focused on the huge NYC summer classes to have a shot,

I will move firms with bigger classes (e.g. Fried, Greenberg) to the top. Can you think of any others I should move/add? GULC wasn't great at providing us with class sizes and I haven't found sizes for specific offices online (just combined number of all offices). Thanks!

Anonymous User wrote:Morgan Lewis should be your number 1....put Greenberg much higher at like number 4...take out Winston Strawn...

Moving Morgan and Greenberg up. Why should I remove Winston? The info GULC gave us makes it seem like they're flexible but if that isn't the case (outliers) please let me know so I can remove it. Thanks!

Kelley should be higher, too.

UPDATED with some of the comments. All of them NYC except the last 2.

Thoughts?

Morgan Lewis
Kelley Drye
Fried Frank
Greenberg Traurig
Schulte Roth
Kramer Levin
Paul Hastings
Winston Strawn
Seward Kissel
Stroock
DLA Piper
Curtis Mallet
Norton Rose
Baker Hostetler
Squire Patton -DC
Venable -DC