Grades after securing SA position Forum

[Mce252]

If you have SA positions lined up and don't plan on clerking, are there any compelling reasons to continue gunning for the top of the class?

[dingbat]

If you have SA positions lined up and don't plan on clerking, are there any compelling reasons to continue gunning for the top of the class?

So you don't give them an excuse to cut you
Also, apparently some lateral opportunities require good grades

[thesealocust]

The overwhelming evidence is that for the overwhelming majority of people your grades won't matter at all after securing an SA position (and getting an offer, though the offer itself isn't hanging on your grades nearly as much as your work product and the firm's finances).

You can be as paranoid as you want that I'm wrong about that, and you can successfully come up with counterexamples, but... life is short.

Fun Fact: To my knowledge, nobody knows my 2L or 3L law school grades. I checked my 1L grades, got a summer job, then stopped checking. My school doesn't rank and to my knowledge my employer never checked, so unless somebody in my school's admin got curious, I have Schrodinger's GPA.

I'll holler if it winds up being an issue when/if I lateral. I'm doubting it, though.

[alicrimson]

The overwhelming evidence is that for the overwhelming majority of people your grades won't matter at all after securing an SA position (and getting an offer, though the offer itself isn't hanging on your grades nearly as much as your work product and the firm's finances).

You can be as paranoid as you want that I'm wrong about that, and you can successfully come up with counterexamples, but... life is short.

Fun Fact: To my knowledge, nobody knows my 2L or 3L law school grades. I checked my 1L grades, got a summer job, then stopped checking. My school doesn't rank and to my knowledge my employer never checked, so unless somebody in my school's admin got curious, I have Schrodinger's GPA.

I'll holler if it winds up being an issue when/if I lateral. I'm doubting it, though.

Haven't gotten first semester 2L grades, but am hoping you are correct with full knowledge that you probably are because, well, you're never wrong.

[thesealocust]

Nah I'm full of shit plenty of the time, I just post a lot and like the sound of my own... keryboard?

[Bildungsroman]

If you have SA positions lined up and don't plan on clerking, are there any compelling reasons to continue gunning for the top of the class?

So you don't give them an excuse to cut you
Also, apparently some lateral opportunities require good grades

No 2Ls/3Ls are really interested in hearing job advice from a 1L.

[rad lulz]

The overwhelming evidence is that for the overwhelming majority of people your grades won't matter at all after securing an SA position (and getting an offer, though the offer itself isn't hanging on your grades nearly as much as your work product and the firm's finances).

You can be as paranoid as you want that I'm wrong about that, and you can successfully come up with counterexamples, but... life is short.

Fun Fact: To my knowledge, nobody knows my 2L or 3L law school grades. I checked my 1L grades, got a summer job, then stopped checking. My school doesn't rank and to my knowledge my employer never checked, so unless somebody in my school's admin got curious, I have Schrodinger's GPA.

I'll holler if it winds up being an issue when/if I lateral. I'm doubting it, though.

Dude didn't you know GDC no offers for grades bro

[rad lulz]

If you have SA positions lined up and don't plan on clerking, are there any compelling reasons to continue gunning for the top of the class?

So you don't give them an excuse to cut you
Also, apparently some lateral opportunities require good grades

No 2Ls/3Ls are really interested in hearing job advice from a 1L.

But he was in finance bro so he has VALUABLE and WORTHWHILE contributions.

[alicrimson]

Nah I'm full of shit plenty of the time, I just post a lot and like the sound of my own... keryboard?

Damn it. Back to the ulcer-inducing panic.