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Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:52 am

HYS grad, did well but not top 10, clerk on 2/9/DC.

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:10 am

Anonymous User wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:52 am
HYS grad, did well but not top 10, clerk on 2/9/DC.
Your chances are low only because so few people are chosen for SCOTUS and so, so many worthy applicants are rejected.

I assume you mean "not top 10 people" and not "not top 10 percent" right?

Are you clerking for a well-known feeder?

Do you have a well-known faculty recommender willing to write something like, "this is the most intelligent and capable student I have ever seen in my 30 years of teaching at HYS"?

Are you conservative? (This increases your chances)

Are you a Rhodes Scholar? Marshall Scholar? Or do you have some other very significant achievement in your past?

Are you a URM?

Do you have any personal connection to any of the justices?

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:10 am

Anonymous User wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 9:10 am
Anonymous User wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 8:52 am
HYS grad, did well but not top 10, clerk on 2/9/DC.
Your chances are low only because so few people are chosen for SCOTUS and so, so many worthy applicants are rejected.

I assume you mean "not top 10 people" and not "not top 10 percent" right? [Neither top 10 people nor top 10 percent]

Are you clerking for a well-known feeder? [No]

Do you have a well-known faculty recommender willing to write something like, "this is the most intelligent and capable student I have ever seen in my 30 years of teaching at HYS"? [No]

Are you conservative? (This increases your chances) [No]

Are you a Rhodes Scholar? Marshall Scholar? Or do you have some other very significant achievement in your past? [No]

Are you a URM? [No]

Do you have any personal connection to any of the justices? [No]

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:11 am

Doesn’t sound promising, then.

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:49 am

This is way too vague. Who did you clerk for, are you a URM, are you in Fed Sosc, do you have some prior interesting experience on the level of Rhodes, are you well connected, is this HYS Harvard or Yale?

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Fri Jun 03, 2022 10:58 am

This person is obviously trolling, lmfao

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by ksm6969 » Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:24 pm

When you say “chance me for SCOTUS,” do you mean chances of becoming a justice or a chances of becoming a clerk?

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Re: Chance me for SCOTUS?

Post by Anonymous User » Wed Jun 22, 2022 3:27 pm

ksm6969 wrote:
Fri Jun 03, 2022 3:24 pm
When you say “chance me for SCOTUS,” do you mean chances of becoming a justice or a chances of becoming a clerk?
Same odds tho either way

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