Grading onto LR and Transfers Forum

[johansantana21]

Just curious, if your school takes around the top 6% as grade on for LR, but if around 3% of those top 6% transfer out, are those grade on invitations given to the next 3%?

[johansantana21]

Everyone else just as lost as I am?

[bdubs]

Ask someone on the membership committee of your LR. I would imagine this varies from school to school, but generally the number of members seems fixed so they have to replace those invitations with others in one way or another.

[NotoriousIIED]

Usually a school won't know who it lost until after the LR invitations have been extended and accepted because the write-on competition usually wraps up before the transfer application cycle does. I have never heard of a school offering newly opened slots (due to transfers) to the next people below the top 10% or whatever the cutoff is. What they will do is either allow some of their own transfers on through a transfer-only write-on competition or just take fewer people.

[vamedic03]

Usually a school won't know who it lost until after the LR invitations have been extended and accepted because the write-on competition usually wraps up before the transfer application cycle does. I have never heard of a school offering newly opened slots (due to transfers) to the next people below the top 10% or whatever the cutoff is. What they will do is either allow some of their own transfers on through a transfer-only write-on competition or just take fewer people.

I can assure you that some Law Reviews do accept more students based on transfers.

[jess]

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[Younger Abstention]

Generally the answer is no. Some schools might, but re-ranking (and the benefits that would come along with it) after transfers leave is rare.

[johansantana21]

k makes sense