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dissonance1848 wrote:What did you guys do to place so fucking well (seriously, mad fucking props)? PM me, please, seriously.

JPU wrote:My results are in the generic OCI results thread, I would rather not re-post here for anonymity reasons.

Anonymous User wrote:School Range: CCN transfer
Market: NYC
Approx. class rank: Top 5% at T2
Law Review: Graded on at old school, secondary at new
Work experience: No
IP: No
Self-assessed interview capability: Must be pretty low based on results
Screening interviews: 17
Mass mails: ~10, nothing came of it
Callbacks received: 9
Callbacks accepted: 9 (throughout the spectrum of the v100 + 1 non vault
Offers: 1 from non-vault market paying firm. Happy with the offer, thought my results would be better, but can't complain.

Anonymous User wrote:School Range: HYS transfer
Markets: Chi, Boston
Approx. class rank: Top 5% at T30
Law Review: secondary journal
Work experience: 1 year at large corp
IP: No
Self-assessed interview capability: 9
Screening interviews: 31
Mass mails: 0
Callbacks received: 23
Callbacks accepted: 10
Offers: 10 (1 V5, 1 V10, 3 V20, 3 V50, 2 market non-vaults)

Anonymous User wrote:School range: DCNG
Market(s): NY, DC, CA
Approx. class rank: P/T Transf, Top 15% original school (T-30), Top 20ish at DCNG
Law review: 2ndary Journal Offer but not accepted
Work experience: Significant (5+) non-legal managerial, Still working F/T
IP background: Yes, but did not apply to IP firms.
Self-assessed interview ability (1-10): 9.
Screening Interviews: 15.
Resume Drop/Mailings: 8
Callbacks received: 3 (DC), 5 (NY), 1 (other), 1 Phone Screen from resume drop (CA)
Callbacks accepted: 8.
Offers w/vault ranges: 2: (V40, V100) (1 in DC, 1 in NY).

Anonymous User wrote:School Range: MVP
Markets: Philly, DC, NYC
Approx Class Rank: Transfer, Top 10% at school in the 50s
Law review: no
Work experience: straight through, 0 yrs
Self Assessed Interview Ability: hard to tell, maybe a 5 or 6
Screening Interviews: 30
Mass mail: 0
Callbacks received: 5 (ranging from V20-V100, from Philly, DC and NYC)
Callbacks accepted: 5
Offers within vault ranges: V40 in NYC, V100 in DC, 1 reject (V50 Philly), withdrew from V20 and V30 in NYC bc I accepted one of the offers

Anonymous User wrote:School range: MVP (transfer)
Market(s): DC, NY, Philly, LA, SD
Approx. class rank: Top 10% at school in 50s
Law review: secondary
Work experience: 0 yr
Self-assessed interview ability (1-10): 9
Screening Interviews: 24
Mass mails: 0
Callbacks received: 8 (7 Vault range CBs)
Callbacks accepted: 8
Offers w/vault ranges: 3 offers (V100 in Philly, V50 DC, V100 SD)
Accepted: V50 in DC

Surprised by number of callbacks and offers as a transfer

Anonymous User wrote:School range: MVP
Market(s): Chicago, TX, secondary market
Approx. class rank: Transfer, #1 at T3
Law review: No
Work experience: No
IP background: No
Anything else that might have an impact?: Multiple languages, URM.
Self-assessed interview ability (1-10): Based on my performance this season, 4 during OCI and ~6-7 at the CBs
Screening Interviews: 14
Mass mails: 10
Callbacks received: 5 (2 from mass mail)
Callbacks accepted: 5
Offers w/vault ranges: 4 (2 V50, 1 V60, 1 secondary market), 1 ding

Anonymous User wrote:School range: HYS
Market(s): NYC, Boston
Approx. class rank: Transfer, top 1-3% at a t25
Law review: invited to join at old law school
Work experience: 1 year doing random jobs, 1 year as a paralegal
IP background: No
Anything else that might have an impact?: LGBT
Self-assessed interview ability (1-10): 9
Screening Interviews: 30
Mass mails: 0
Callbacks received: 18
Callbacks accepted: 10 (canceled 3 after offers)
Offers w/vault ranges: 6 (1 V5, 1 V15, 1 V25, 2 V50, 1 V100), 1 ding
Accepted: V25

Anonymous User wrote:Looks like I can officially call a wrap to my cycle and I think it should be useful to post for next year's class.

School Range: T14 (transfer from 40-100 school)
Markets: DC (with the exception of a few in a secondary market)
Law Review: Invited to LR at 1L school, secondary journal at T14
Class Rank: Top 3-4% at 1L school
Work Experience: couple years as Biglaw paralegal
Screening Interviews: Approximately 30-35 (a few obtained outside OCI)
Callbacks: 1 in a secondary market
Offers: 0

Still attempting to mail further law firms but recruiting seems to be winding down at most places by now.

Anonymous User wrote:School range: TTT to t14 transfer
Market(s): LA / NYC / Midwest
Approx. class rank: top 5% at old school
Law review: Graded on at old school, Secondary at new
Work Experience: No
Self-assessed interview ability: 8, I didn't have any interviews that went "bad" per se but I know I said some dumb things at a few
Screening Interviews: 27
Mass mails: 10
Callbacks received: 3 (1 through OCI (v20) , 2 through mailing v100 and big regional firm))
Callbacks accepted: 3
Offers w/vault ranges: 1 v20 (midwest), v100 ding and silence from regional

Accepting the v20, Couldn't be happier