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Yeah UChicago weights GPAs pretty heavily, so if international students get a different scale that doesn't influence that (and remember the class size is below 200, so it's easier to tweak a median) at all, maybe they're less likely to throw money at internationals? I think to be in a good position ...

but box-checking is done for reporting purposes. iirc, only african americans, native americans, mexicans, and puerto ricans are considered URMs for admission purposes. How do you know this? Since race/ethnicity statistics only say "Hispanic," why would other Latin American countries not fall under...

Oh I missed the Native thing. I wouldn't call yourself that based on being Chamorro. It doesn't really fit into the framework, and especially don't do it if you haven't identified yourself like that in the past. I'm not sure the URM bump is solely for Mexican/Puerto Rican descent (although that woul...

If you identify as both Hispanic and Pacific Islander I think you'll be able to indicate both of those on your applications. IIRC, the question about Hispanic descent is basically a separate question from your ethnicity- it's sort of a one-off "Hispanic Y/N?" coupled with (I think) a request regardi...

I think there is a sliding scale of deference to these sorts of objective measures of employment. BL/FC% is a proxy for "financially acceptable" outcome, but more deference should be given to Stanford than is given to WUSTL, more deference to Harvard than Duke, and likely NU JD/MBA to UCLA JD advan...

SLS takes a lead over YLS in the clerking numbers this year! Also LOL@ their defensive-sounding specificity w/ the JD-Advantage jobs... "THESE ARE THE COOL ONES, NOT THE LAME ONES GUYS!!!" In all seriousness, those are quite impressive JD-advantage gigs though! Harvard continues to lag Chicago on c...

SLS takes a lead over YLS in the clerking numbers this year! Also LOL@ their defensive-sounding specificity w/ the JD-Advantage jobs... "THESE ARE THE COOL ONES, NOT THE LAME ONES GUYS!!!" In all seriousness, those are quite impressive JD-advantage gigs though! Harvard continues to lag Chicago on c...

Harvard continues to lag Chicago on clerkships huh? Tsk tsk... I suspect UChi is a little inflated by the quality of the Fed Soc pipeline + a broader pool of potential candidates who aren't averse to clerking in far-flung non-coastal places, but I think some of it too is just how strongly the schoo...

SLS takes a lead over YLS in the clerking numbers this year! Also LOL@ their defensive-sounding specificity w/ the JD-Advantage jobs... "THESE ARE THE COOL ONES, NOT THE LAME ONES GUYS!!!" In all seriousness, those are quite impressive JD-advantage gigs though! Harvard continues to lag Chicago on cl...

wow, that means hunter biden must have done really well if his gulc grades made transfer even plausible (considering how tough yls transfer is). it doesn't seem he graduated YLS with any latin honors though, which is a bit surprising considering he must have had almost top grades after 1L. Does YLS...

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Mon Dec 09, 2019 2:57 pm

idk if there was a different thread for different school's LRAPs but UChicago mildly improved theirs this year!

+1

Also discovering that the whole "clerkships are covered" thing is not nearly as standard as I initially believed...

Just to look at the financial benefit side of things alone- the bonus is like 350k now, right? So you're comparing No-SCOTUS earnings (70k clerk + 50k bonus + 200k salary Y2 + 25k bonus)= 2 yr total of 345k vs. Yes-SCOTUS earnings (70k clerk + 85k clerk Y2 + 350k SCOTUS bonus)= 505k earnings. So the...

Plenty of seminars at UChicago (only CCN I know about) are curved up to a 178/179. Do just a little better than average there, and you're looking at a 180 (i.e. an A). Maybe NYU/CLS don't do that at all in seminars, but my general impression is that plenty of people (especially those doing transacti...

I mean this respectfully, but median grades at CCN shouldn’t be a death sentence for your goals. Getting a federal clerkship with median grades? I am quite skeptical. But that is also far from my concerns at the moment. If you're only about to start 2L, it's way too early to dismiss the possibility...

Jeez Nony, just tell me you're gonna write a better version of my response next time and it'll save me some time!

You can say "researched [or whatever] on legal issues including issue X, issue Y, and LIBOR." It's fine. The point is more that you got experience doing legal research, not that you're claiming you're an expert on everything you researched. Because your job had you research LIBOR doesn't mean that'...

Yeah like at some point you just gotta resolve to win the race to the bottom right?

Clerkship listservs are definitely buzzing with interviews and some acceptances, but I don't think that necessarily means it's time to give up hope. But both appellate and district judges are definitely well into interviewing and beginning to extend offers.

One damn exam left here... I spent basically 1.67 years taking nothing but in-class 3 hour exams, and now for whatever reason my very last exam period is nothing but take-homes. Not my favorite way to spend my last finals season, but at least it's almost done. @Beep + Skers: Advice on Picker Antitru...

Just to back up what Nony said, here's the 2018 results I think.

https://prawfsblawg.blogs.com/prawfsbla ... ng-report/

Should have a link to a Google Doc summarizing.

Forgot to mention that at least two profs also had PHDs in another field (one from Harvard, one from MIT). So that's another credential you may need to check off. Yeah check the academic hiring results that lawprofblog and Leiter (grr) put out each. Sort by "other degree" and see how many have a Ph...

Dammit- bit the necro-post hook line and sinker. Did they pay full freight at HLS? That's like the extreme of the debt v. prestige trade-off, bottom of the T14 at $0 v. HLS for about $300k...

Edit: I miss Smokey!

Can't speak to the Jacobson program, but if it's anything like the Doctoroff (and I think it is based on vague memories from app process), it's definitely not worth really factoring in. Main perks for Doctoroff are a mentor who can help with 1L jobs and preferred access to some B-school classes, not...

Yeah 65k is squarely in the range where family benefits + relocation expense + spouse being able to retain a job makes sense decision-wise. The fact that NYU is probably a bit better at NYC Biglaw employment is just the cherry on top!

Congratulations! That's a fantastic outcome and I think awareness of how volatile MyLSN can be w/ certain groups (I doubt the non-AA semi-splitter sample is particularly large) is absolutely important in encouraging folks to apply. Edit: Thought this was the other thread, feel free to delete if I'm ...