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More prestigious: Rhodes scholarship or SCOTUS clerkship
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:53 PM Author: Mauve shrine (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27167732) |
Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:54 PM Author: anal fuchsia institution private investor 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: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: anal fuchsia institution private investor 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: Mauve shrine 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: drunken indirect expression 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: chestnut pit immigrant 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: Marvelous mildly autistic school giraffe (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: snowy beta chapel friendly grandma 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: pale startled public bath 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: pale startled public bath 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: Beady-eyed internet-worthy rehab 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: Mauve shrine 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: pale startled public bath 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: Mauve shrine 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: crawly church affirmative action 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: vivacious stock car 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: electric splenetic tanning salon toaster 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: crawly church affirmative action (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: Irradiated insecure parlor 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: Mauve shrine 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: laughsome piazza 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: Beady-eyed internet-worthy rehab 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: translucent adventurous university http://www.twirlingunlimited.com/scholar.htm
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 9:59 PM Author: electric splenetic tanning salon toaster 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: translucent adventurous university 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: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: electric splenetic tanning salon toaster Do explain
Thank |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:01 PM Author: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: electric splenetic tanning salon toaster 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: Vigorous crackhouse pozpig 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: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: Mauve shrine 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: crawly church affirmative action future POTUS.
http://www.forbes.com/pictures/mlj45eileg/joshua-matz-29/ |
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Date: January 22nd, 2015 10:12 PM Author: Mauve shrine 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: crawly church affirmative action 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: Mauve shrine 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: Hairless temple 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: violet trip chad 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: grizzly bateful tattoo 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: drunken indirect expression 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: Flatulent claret sweet tailpipe nursing home 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: Mauve shrine 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: electric splenetic tanning salon toaster 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: Mauve shrine 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 stubborn useless brakes 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: Vigorous crackhouse pozpig 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: violet trip chad 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: vivacious stock car "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: laughsome piazza 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: floppy maize gas station macaca 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: grizzly bateful tattoo 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: Irradiated insecure parlor 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: grizzly bateful tattoo (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: Irradiated insecure parlor 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: crawly church affirmative action 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: violet trip chad 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: grizzly bateful tattoo 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: violet trip chad 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: grizzly bateful tattoo 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: awkward trump supporter old irish cottage 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: Silver Home 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: Drab sinister stage voyeur 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: grizzly bateful tattoo (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: sadistic naked candlestick maker cuckold 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: Mauve shrine 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: Shaky electric furnace digit ratio (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: crawly church affirmative action 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: Vigorous crackhouse pozpig XO Noah Feldman
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Date: January 23rd, 2015 1:29 PM Author: grizzly bateful tattoo 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: Transparent arousing clown space 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: Drab sinister stage voyeur (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: Buck-toothed Bright Kitchen "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: canary territorial people who are hurt legal warrant 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: canary territorial people who are hurt legal warrant 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: Fragrant spot corn cake 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: Vigorous crackhouse pozpig 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: sadistic naked candlestick maker cuckold 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: Mauve shrine 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: Vigorous crackhouse pozpig *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: Shaky electric furnace digit ratio (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2789303&forum_id=2#27838211) |