I recently sent out paper applications for clerkships, and I’ve received a few paper rejection letters (without an interview). Some of these letters appear to be personalized, while others seem to be generic.
Is this common? I hadn’t heard of this from my peers who applied in previous cycles, but that may just be because people don’t care to discuss rejections.
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Re: Paper Rejection Letters
Paper rejection letters without an interview is uncommon. I think I must have sent out like 50 paper apps in my time and got just one of them.Anonymous User wrote: ↑Wed Mar 15, 2023 7:21 pmI recently sent out paper applications for clerkships, and I’ve received a few paper rejection letters (without an interview). Some of these letters appear to be personalized, while others seem to be generic.
Is this common? I hadn’t heard of this from my peers who applied in previous cycles, but that may just be because people don’t care to discuss rejections.
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Re: Paper Rejection Letters
As an alternative anecdote, I got quite a few paper rejections without interviews when I sent out paper apps. I don't have numbers now, but I'd say more like 10 out of 50.
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Re: Paper Rejection Letters
I have a nice stack of paper rejection letters from back in the day, but can't say there's an explanation for that vs radio silence. I think a judge I applied to twice only sent a rejection letter the second time around. Maybe I made it further in their process or maybe they really didn't want me to apply anymore 
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