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Re: the NALP rule on 5 offers, I was told that the rule is a max of 5 offers per market. How is "market" defined? E.g. does Cali or Texas each count as a "market," or does each market = each individual city in each state?

Anonymous User wrote:Re: the NALP rule on 5 offers, I was told that the rule is a max of 5 offers per market. How is "market" defined? E.g. does Cali or Texas each count as a "market," or does each market = each individual city in each state?

Serious question: why would you have a need for more than five offers to be open at a given time? Even if you're simultaneously considering two markets.

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Anonymous User wrote:Re: the NALP rule on 5 offers, I was told that the rule is a max of 5 offers per market. How is "market" defined? E.g. does Cali or Texas each count as a "market," or does each market = each individual city in each state?

Serious question: why would you have a need for more than five offers to be open at a given time? Even if you're simultaneously considering two markets.

Agreed. And further, the rule doesn't even impose a hard cap of 5 offers at a given time. The rule simply requires students to, "within one week of receipt of the excess offer, release a previously received offer." So it's not like someone with 5 offers on hand needs to make a decision on the spot should a sixth offer come in. The student has a full week to select a single offer to release.

Also, holding onto that many offers is sort of a dick move. There’s no way you should be seriously considering 5+ firms. Let go of the ones you’re not interested in to free up offers for some of your classmates.

Dcc617 wrote:Also, holding onto that many offers is sort of a dick move. There’s no way you should be seriously considering 5+ firms. Let go of the ones you’re not interested in to free up offers for some of your classmates.

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