Quoting this for posterity. Surely if W&C didn't mean anything to you, you wouldn't have written this screed attacking it.Anonymous User wrote:W&C rejection arrived today, rather like clockwork. I can't say I'm that surprised, or really disappointed. Before the interview, it was certainly one of my top choices (though not my top choice), but I emerged from the interview process placing it near the bottom. I suppose I now see what people talk about when they talk about "fit."
The attorneys I interviewed with did not seem particularly intellectual or smart--merely very, very aggressive. They seemed caught up in their own "prestige," to the point of having a chip on their shoulders. One associate with whom I interviewed, for instance, made a point of telling me that, whereas Harvard College is "the hardest ivy to get into but the easiest to get out of," his undergrad school--which shall remain nameless--was the "hardest ivy to get out of." I left sensing I didn't want to work surrounded by people still nursing wounds inflicted on them at the age of 17--wounds apparently not remedied by clawing one's way to the top of the class at Michigan Law or clerking on the Sixth Circuit.
So, W&C, while you may have aptly recognized that I just wanted to milk you for a clerkship bonus and salary for a year or two before dashing off to academia, know that I am manifestly smarter and better-qualified than every attorney who met with me.
Peace.
EDIT: Oops, didn't mean to be anonymous.
there's got to be more than the two of us posting in here, right?!
