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Is it on par with Phi Beta Kappa in UG or does no one care about it?

You have it mixed up. No one cares about PBK. Everyone cares about Coif.

It just means top ten percent. I doubt anyone with top ten percent grades ever got a job because of the order of the coif distinction that they wouldn't have gotten if they were at an equivalent non-coif school.

People care about it just like they care about Law Review. It's a signal that you did really well in law school. It's not like you're going to go network with other Coif members or something.

I have seen some very prestigious professors with coif on their resumes.

UnderrateOverachieve wrote:I have seen some very prestigious professors with coif on their resumes.

Must be the coif that made them prestigious. They would be TTTT profs without it.

kalvano wrote:You have it mixed up. No one cares about PBK. Everyone cares about Coif.

+180. Grab your complimentary Champaign on the way to HR.

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J. D. wrote:

kalvano wrote:You have it mixed up. No one cares about PBK. Everyone cares about Coif.

+180. Grab your complimentary Champaign on the way to HR.

I lol'ed.

Whether or not one is admitted to the Order determines their entire future in law

Yukos wrote:

UnderrateOverachieve wrote:I have seen some very prestigious professors with coif on their resumes.

Must be the coif that made them prestigious. They would be TTTT profs without it.

Lol. Yes, UnderrateOverachieve. I can assume with a high degree of certainty that you were either not a philosophy major in UG or were a very poor one (regardless of your GPA).

when this topic comes up a few times a year, the general resolution is that PBK and Coif are of the very few things that generally make a law firm bio, but whether they have independent significance is doubtful.

Coif is helpful, however, at schools without Latin honors. For instance, UVA doesn't give any latin honors, so it might be marginally helpful for a person moving jobs in 5-10 years when the employer will not be scouring a transcript to discover GPA. it just provides a quick reference that the person wasn't at the bottom of the class or whatever. but if your school has latin honors, then its mostly duplicative, probably

Kafkaesquire wrote:Lol. Yes, UnderrateOverachieve. I can assume with a high degree of certainty that you were either not a philosophy major in UG or were a very poor one (regardless of your GPA).

Not every post on this forum is an attempt at circle jerking how accomplished we are. Sorry to burst your bubble.

Is law school flame?

Is flame flame?

Kafkaesquire wrote:

Yukos wrote:

UnderrateOverachieve wrote:I have seen some very prestigious professors with coif on their resumes.

Must be the coif that made them prestigious. They would be TTTT profs without it.

Lol. Yes, UnderrateOverachieve. I can assume with a high degree of certainty that you were either not a philosophy major in UG or were a very poor one (regardless of your GPA).

philosophy majors are TTT

RedLightGreenLight wrote: philosophy majors are TTT

http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estima ... ege-major/

Dr. Dre wrote:

RedLightGreenLight wrote: philosophy majors are TTT

http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estima ... ege-major/

And:
http://www.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/whatis/LSATtable.html

http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/AAS/Ph ... Majors.pdf

http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/articl ... e_average/

This thread went downhill fast.

Travis12 wrote:

Dr. Dre wrote:

RedLightGreenLight wrote: philosophy majors are TTT

http://www.statisticbrain.com/iq-estima ... ege-major/

And:
http://www.phil.ufl.edu/ugrad/whatis/LSATtable.html

http://www.potsdam.edu/academics/AAS/Ph ... Majors.pdf

http://www.abajournal.com/mobile/articl ... e_average/

Dr. Dre wrote:

LMAO. CompuTTTTer science.

Used to be such a great degree.

How did this turn into a philosophy circle-jerk? high test scores aside, the intelligence of a person who majors solely in philosophy is remarkably low

5ky wrote:How did this turn into a philosophy circle-jerk? high test scores aside, the intelligence of a person who majors solely in philosophy is remarkably low

DESCRIBE

Dr. Dre wrote:

5ky wrote:How did this turn into a philosophy circle-jerk? high test scores aside, the intelligence of a person who majors solely in philosophy is remarkably low

DESCRIBE

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/ ... -sort.html

Yukos wrote:
http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/ ... -sort.html

Damn. HisTTory and maTTh aren't as TTTT as I thought.