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More prestigious: Rhodes scholarship or SCOTUS clerkship
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:53 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167732) |
Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:54 PM Author: well-lubricated gold scourge upon the earth i would be more impressed by someone with rhodes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167743) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:55 PM Author: overrated cruise ship really depends on state. I remember someone from UG winning a rhodes telling a couple of us "thank god for the intellectual ineptitude of my state". (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167754) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:56 PM Author: well-lubricated gold scourge upon the earth maybe it's because i'm a lawyer, but i just don't GAF about scotus clerks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167772) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:05 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour U seem awfully jelly of scotus clerkships (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167862) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:36 PM Author: judgmental self-centered multi-billionaire friendly grandma When I was at Oxford, I would tell my British friends that so-and-so had won the Rhodes scholarship for a fully-funded master's in Gay African Women's Studies because she had outwitted a cactus and a buffalo. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168746) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 11:05 AM Author: Swashbuckling Double Fault feels like an Edinburgh tp post (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27170361) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 11:31 AM Author: glittery jewess (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27170527) |
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Date: January 29th, 2015 1:04 AM Author: Lake deep heaven mexican This (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27207642) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:54 PM Author: yapping turquoise persian idiot probably rhodes but they're fairly close. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167749) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:55 PM Author: Vengeful Stead Probably SCOTUS I would think. A lot more Rhodes scholars every year, right? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167752) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:57 PM Author: yapping turquoise persian idiot there's what 40 SCOTUS clerks? i don't think there are THAT many more US rhodes, like 50 or 60 maybe. and they're drawing from a much larger pool. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167779) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:58 PM Author: galvanic obsidian round eye it's just that rhodes are chosen for even more faggot reasons (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167784) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:00 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Link to recent Rhodes scholarship winners (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167803) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:59 PM Author: Vengeful Stead They're drawing from a smaller pool because of what you have to go through to even be considered for a clerkship. You need to most likely get into a top school, dominate there, and get a prestigious COA clerkship to even be considered. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167796) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:06 PM Author: yapping turquoise persian idiot incoherent. try again. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167879) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:07 PM Author: Vengeful Stead A much wider range of applicants have a shot at getting a Rhodes is what I'm getting at. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167890) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:07 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Wat do u have to do to be considered for the Rhodes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167887) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:08 PM Author: Vengeful Stead Football players and shit get it sometimes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167894) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:09 PM Author: Charismatic Sweet Tailpipe Hospital yea, like Corey Booker (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167908) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:13 PM Author: Vengeful Stead And Myron Rolle. That guy basically gave up his NFL career to do the Rhodes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167938) |
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Date: January 24th, 2015 1:34 AM Author: Medicated Sooty Regret 32 Americans, so there are more SCOTUS clerks.
Also SCOTUS clerkships are for (and useful to) lawyers, so it's more people taken from a smaller group of interested people. |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:55 PM Author: provocative spot fanboi Rhodesians are faggots who just racked up a bunch of ECs and are "diverse"
Scotus needs you to actually be sharp so you can write opinions |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:56 PM Author: Charismatic Sweet Tailpipe Hospital (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167768) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:56 PM Author: Primrose Address Ratface what about marshall scholars? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167762) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:57 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Marshall scholarship is ubeleivably underrated on xo (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167773) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:56 PM Author: Concupiscible Soggy Travel Guidebook lol SCOTUS and it's not even close (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167764) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:56 PM Author: galvanic obsidian round eye SCOTUS clerk IMO (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167771) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:57 PM Author: sepia misanthropic sanctuary http://www.twirlingunlimited.com/scholar.htm
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:59 PM Author: provocative spot fanboi Did you hear about twirl gate? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167790) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:04 PM Author: sepia misanthropic sanctuary No. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167856) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:59 PM Author: overrated cruise ship I know 3 rhodes, 1 SCOTUS. the SCOTUS clerk is basically not human. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167789) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:59 PM Author: provocative spot fanboi Do explain
Thank |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:01 PM Author: overrated cruise ship Her resume/career trajectory is insane. If I heard one day "she is a candidate for democratic nom for POTUS" I would think "eh, that's about right." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167815) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:02 PM Author: Vengeful Stead is she aspie at all? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167828) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:04 PM Author: overrated cruise ship No. She's charming in that international socialite way from the 80s. She's also pretty hot. The guy she married is loaded loaded, but not very attractive. I wouldn't say she's chill. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167847) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:06 PM Author: Vengeful Stead I'm sorry for the doobsian line of questioning, but I'm just curious what type of practice area she is in if she is in a firm. Appellate shit? Feel free not to answer if you're worried about outing or whatever. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167872) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:07 PM Author: overrated cruise ship not firm now. gov. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167888) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:55 PM Author: provocative spot fanboi She a lib? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168342) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:40 PM Author: Supple dilemma sandwich i think i know the girl you're talking about. did she do emory ug and HLS? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168782) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 2:25 PM Author: overrated cruise ship nah. what's an emory? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171748) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:02 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour SCOTUS clerks don't make good POTUS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167836) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:06 PM Author: Charismatic Sweet Tailpipe Hospital future POTUS.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45eileg/joshua-matz-29/ |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:12 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Lol seems like a little faggot (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167929) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:14 PM Author: Charismatic Sweet Tailpipe Hospital exactly, more likely to be future POTUS (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167949) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:17 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Lol no.
SCOTUS CLERKS are generally the aspiway of the aspie. Their skill set does not translate over to the skill set required to be POTUS. The best positions these SCOTUS CLERKS can have are judges, biglaw partners at V10s, or CEOs of some finance business |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:29 PM Author: pontificating stain MOTHER FUCKING LOL AT "or CEOs of some finance business" nice try lawfag (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168692) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:43 PM Author: laughsome international law enforcement agency quadroon The best job they can have is Professors of Law @ T14s. HTH. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168817) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:52 PM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168295) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:38 PM Author: judgmental self-centered multi-billionaire friendly grandma Reptilian in a Rothschildish way. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168762) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:07 PM Author: Vengeful Stead I wouldn't think so either. The vast majority of the population would have no idea how impressive a SCOTUS clerkship is. People would just assume a clerk just files shit or something. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167881) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:18 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167978) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:56 PM Author: provocative spot fanboi Like how a banker cashes ur checks (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168356) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:01 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Explain (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167816) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:02 PM Author: mind-boggling grizzly school cafeteria marketing idea I know 1 rhodes, 1 scotus and 1 marshall.
marshall is most successful of the 3 (hbs/top pe), followed by scotus, and in a distant 3rd is rhodes |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:42 PM Author: Supple dilemma sandwich marshall scholars do very well in business while rhodes tend to go into law and academia. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168810) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:01 PM Author: laughsome international law enforcement agency quadroon I mean just in terms of percentages, it has to be the SCOTUS clerk. The job they do is also more substantial.
However, SCOTUS clerks are undoubtedly the 99.9999%ile of law school grinders, aspies, etc. So I wouldn't be impressed just due to bias. |
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Date: January 24th, 2015 1:37 AM Author: Medicated Sooty Regret "I mean just in terms of percentages, it has to be the SCOTUS clerk."
Explain. |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:07 PM Author: Concupiscible Soggy Travel Guidebook OP is a SCOTUS clerk basking in his prestige (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167882) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:09 PM Author: overrated cruise ship if so, earned victory lap. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167909) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:51 PM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace SCOTUS clerk is only prestigious to law bros. Random people probably think it's equivalent to being an intern for a Senator or some shit. Rhodes got dat lay prestige. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168280) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:53 PM Author: Primrose Address Ratface they think it's literally clerical work, i'd imagine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168314) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:55 PM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168329) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:56 PM Author: Primrose Address Ratface can you imagine some law dork who grinded hard enough to make it to the SCOTUS trembling with rage when someone asked why he spent 7 years in school to be a secretary? ljl. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168348) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:02 PM Author: Charismatic Sweet Tailpipe Hospital showed my gf this SCOUTUS clerks resume and she responded, "why do you care? he's just a clerk. You're a real attorney."
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:55 PM Author: laughsome international law enforcement agency quadroon lol sure it does.
SCOTUS clerk to are country prole: I'm a clerk for S. Ct. Justice Scalia.
Prole: What's that?
Clerk: I help him write opinions and guide the law in Amerika!
Rhodes Scholar to prole: I got a scholarship to study at Oxford: Prole: Elitist liberal! |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:59 PM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace Most people think a "clerk" is the guy who rings them up at Sam's Club. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168390) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:59 PM Author: laughsome international law enforcement agency quadroon Those same people don't know what a Rhodes Scholarship is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168400) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:00 PM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace They do, but they think it's called a Road Scholar. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168407) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:43 PM Author: Razzle-dazzle chrome site clerks - like the guys at ralphs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168814) |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 11:58 PM Author: 180 bisexual factory reset button shrine SAN DIMAS HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL RULES (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27168931) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 10:57 AM Author: erotic curious ticket booth sound barrier XOXO is so aspie.
Non-lawyers don't know or care WTF a "SCOTUS clerk" is.
Rhodes Scholars are internationally thought of as brilliant and elite. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 10:58 AM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27170340) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 11:03 AM Author: Outnumbered digit ratio senate of the few i know, the scotus clerks are smarter. but rhodes is probably more prestigious all told (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27170355) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 11:15 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Intelligence >> prestige (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27175133) |
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Date: May 7th, 2015 12:15 AM Author: Sinister impertinent mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27838225) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:20 PM Author: Charismatic Sweet Tailpipe Hospital Just cop both like Goodwin Liu (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171284) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:21 PM Author: Supple dilemma sandwich XO Noah Feldman
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:29 PM Author: cerebral submissive abode electric furnace Obviously a SCHOLAR >>>>>> a mere clerk. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171363) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:34 PM Author: Irradiated temple Rhodes. No one even knows what SCOTUS clerkship is. Literally no one knows what it is. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171402) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 3:18 PM Author: erotic curious ticket booth sound barrier (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27172177) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:40 PM Author: lascivious pocket flask nursing home "You clerked at the Supreme Court? I clerked at Staples for a few years during college." (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171439) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:59 PM Author: Maize Church Building I view SCOTUS clerks as more preftigious. They go through more filters and more rigorous filters.
Top law school --> top of class --> top clerkship --> SCOTUS clerk
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 2:01 PM Author: Maize Church Building Rhodes scholars are the Rolex of prestige. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171574) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 2:41 PM Author: Haunting institution preventive strike Whoever said "just do both" hit the nail squarely on the head. Consider the following:
http://ww3.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty/faculty_cvs/Penalver.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodwin_Liu
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/lawrence-tu/1a/3a7/a9a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_P._Ellison
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_White
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/fashion/weddings/jennifer-wynn-damian-williams-weddings.html
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 2:43 PM Author: Supple dilemma sandwich harvard jd/mba is more prestigious than both (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171912) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 2:44 PM Author: Outnumbered digit ratio senate lol jjc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27171918) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 11:27 PM Author: citrine floppy parlour Lol (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27175201) |
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Date: January 29th, 2015 1:11 AM Author: Supple dilemma sandwich *guy who didn't realize that there are fewer harvard jd/mba each year than rhodes or scotus clerks* (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27207683) |
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Date: May 7th, 2015 12:12 AM Author: Sinister impertinent mad-dog skullcap (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27838211) |