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Dear TLS:

I am a student at a t2 law schools who recently received a late acceptance to a T10. I have not yet accepted the transfer offer, but I am strongly considering it. Nevertheless, I am forced to participate in my current school's OCI, where I have a significant amount of pre-selects. At the time of these interviews, I will not yet have accepted my offer and will definitely not be participating in the new schools OCI if I do. My question is as follows:

Assuming I do well at the screeners and get callbacks, at the callback stage will the employers look negatively, positively, or be neutral to the fact that I am at a different school than I was at the OCI stage?

I know a couple people who did OCI at their previous schools, got offers, then transferred and told their firm that they transferred. The firms didn't care. Anecdotal, but I think you'll be fine.

Anonymous User wrote:Dear TLS:

I am a student at a t2 law schools who recently received a late acceptance to a T10. I have not yet accepted the transfer offer, but I am strongly considering it. Nevertheless, I am forced to participate in my current school's OCI, where I have a significant amount of pre-selects. At the time of these interviews, I will not yet have accepted my offer and will definitely not be participating in the new schools OCI if I do. My question is as follows:

Assuming I do well at the screeners and get callbacks, at the callback stage will the employers look negatively, positively, or be neutral to the fact that I am at a different school than I was at the OCI stage?

If you're transferring to a better school, the worst case is no difference, the likely case is that it will give you a slight boost.

Thank you for the responses. I reached the same logical conclusion and only can think of 2 ways in which it could hurt me. 1) A partner/associate at the callback stage happens to be an alum of the school from which I transferred out, or 2) Firms that are really set on law review-journal, because due to late acceptance I missed the write-on and will only be able to be on a journal for the 3L year (at my current school am on law review).
Otherwise, seems reasonable that if they were willing to hire me as a T2 student then, if anything, being a T10 student at the callback does seem like a boost.

Anonymous User wrote:Thank you for the responses. I reached the same logical conclusion and only can think of 2 ways in which it could hurt me. 1) A partner/associate at the callback stage happens to be an alum of the school from which I transferred out, or 2) Firms that are really set on law review-journal, because due to late acceptance I missed the write-on and will only be able to be on a journal for the 3L year (at my current school am on law review).
Otherwise, seems reasonable that if they were willing to hire me as a T2 student then, if anything, being a T10 student at the callback does seem like a boost.

if it helps I sort of did something like this- a partner and an alum of my old law school (T3) was helping me with interviews and before I met with him I wanted to be upfront and tell him that i found out that i'll be transferring to GULC. I was terrified he was going to say he wouldn't help me anymore, but he completely understood, and even got me an interview at his biglaw firm- which he couldn't do before I transferred. So definitely don't be worried about that- I think most are really understanding and get why you'd transfer. The partner even said "let's be real, [old law school] is not great"
also definitely don't worry about law review- you'll have your old school's law review on your resume. But otherwise I don't think it makes a huge difference.