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kingpin101 wrote:Damn are there any top WUSTL students who don't want to transfer?

Nebby wrote:

kingpin101 wrote:Damn are there any top WUSTL students who don't want to transfer?

Maybe like 3. Unless you want to work in STL, there's no reason not to transfer if you can get into T6 and you want BigLaw, imo

Br3v wrote:

Nebby wrote:

kingpin101 wrote:Damn are there any top WUSTL students who don't want to transfer?

Maybe like 3. Unless you want to work in STL, there's no reason not to transfer if you can get into T6 and you want BigLaw, imo

What percentile at WUSTL is relatively NY Biglaw "secure"?

Nebby wrote: UVA and Stanford are black boxes and I think an app is wasted there

pancakes3 wrote:Doesn't UVA only take like 1 transfer a year?

PourMeTea wrote:WUSTL > transfer is like plan B when retake > ED UVA doesn't work out

Brut wrote:what is up with your list
u want nyc so u have cls, but not nyu?
u want chi, so u have northwestern, but not uchi?
u want dc but don't have uva, where d.c. is the second-most common destination for grads?
and u put in an app to stanford, so i assume u want cali, but no berkeley? unless it's a prestige thing, but then u don't want yale?

PeanutsNJam wrote: OP wants a school where the name is only one word. Knows he's not getting Yale.

PourMeTea wrote:

PeanutsNJam wrote: OP wants a school where the name is only one word. Knows he's not getting Yale.

tbh this is noticeable at firm receptions and if your nametag says "[school] law school" on it, you're boned

kingpin101 wrote:Damn are there any top WUSTL students who don't want to transfer?

Brut wrote:

sox49 wrote:Given that so many wustl students at the top transfer, how should we interpret job numbers? If this didn't happen in such large numbers, would their biglaw numbers be significantly better?

oci interviewers are generally given grade guidelines
ostensibly if it really was the case that a large percentage of top wustl ppl transferred out, it would lower the number of CBs offered at the more selective firms, lowering job numbers

current job placement numbers are c/o 2014
c/o 2014 matriculated in 2011, meaning their transfer cycle ended in 2012
wustl's 2012 509 indicates 18 transfers out

from this we can recalculate wustl's bl+fc, which i will do here, assuming the most favorable scenario for wustl for purposes of demonstration
that is, i'll assume 100% of the 18 transfers stayed and got bl/fc positions, and none of those jobs displaced positions for other wustl students
2014 bl/fc is 31.4%
with the transfers added back in, it's 35.9%

again, i gave wustl the rosiest scenario possible
i would take an educated guess and say that transfers out probably affect bl/fc by a couple of percentage points, but not enough to make a serious impact w/r/t choosing, unless one is truly on the fence

sublime wrote:
Obviously going through it, PMT would have a much better idea as far as your odds than I would.

sox49 wrote: Thanks, I wasn't considering that the class of 2017 had an unusual amount of transfers.

Is it easier to transfer for up from washu than for similarly ranked schools like gwu or nd? Or is it just that a lot of folks go there with the intent of moving up?