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Bottom of the class @ HYS. How fucked? Martoma?

1L pumo here (well used to be 1L). MBB? Dropout?
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
I didn't think HYS even *have* a bottom. I thought everyone ...
stirring library mediation
  06/30/15
Well you thought wrong. Even YLS (which I may or may not hav...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  07/01/15
HYS is worth the prestige. You can probably get some gove...
Bateful shimmering locale
  06/29/15
What Non-law options? Can I do non-biglaw for my 2L summe...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Get your grades up, and try to land an in-house gig 2L. Y...
Bateful shimmering locale
  06/29/15
I have a shot at an Inhouse gig or AmLaw 200 as a 2L? Any...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Possibly with grades. And yeah, V200 and MidLaw will stil...
Bateful shimmering locale
  06/29/15
You were a CCN bro right? What makes HYS so special but medi...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Why the heck do you think MBB is that easy to get into?
dashing disgusting locus
  06/29/15
not that it's easy, people just think MBB is grade-indiffere...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
OP here. Not flame: I interviewed with one of BB for 1L summ...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
it is currently your 1L summer? what are you doing? what ...
razzmatazz learning disabled trump supporter church building
  06/29/15
how'd you let this happen bro? didnt you read xo's advice on...
curious irate meetinghouse macaca
  06/29/15
Please link us to these threads, lad, so we can avoid the sh...
Metal Sadistic Love Of Her Life Masturbator
  06/29/15
You've been on xo forever. Def longer than I have. Are you s...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Home market? Other markets with ties? Work experience?
dashing disgusting locus
  06/29/15
cqs
rough-skinned people who are hurt
  06/29/15
K-JD. Summer work exp @ bigname PI law (think ACLU), and a V...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
EDIT nm u answered ur market sry EDIT EDIT do you plau...
rough-skinned people who are hurt
  06/29/15
Nah, grew up in MFH metro area. Can I hide my head betwe...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
deliberately not doing 2L OCI makes zero sense. collecting n...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
Were you HUG or HLS? I know you're one or the other. You h...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
sorry i try not to get too specific about that and i don't t...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
I mean you don't have to tell me anything about yourself. It...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
You can do both. People do oci and the public interest job f...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
I'm RAing for this Rhodes/Marshall-->YLS-->SCOTUS prof...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Yes vault firms consider resumes from people who clerked and...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
Skipping 2L OCI just to save face with your classmates? Lol,...
glassy titillating nursing home
  06/29/15
What kind of litigation are we talking about? Environmental?...
dashing disgusting locus
  06/29/15
Do OCI with all of the worst firms that go to your school's ...
henna violent digit ratio
  06/29/15
Holy fuck this. The New York offices of the Kattens/Trout...
zombie-like spectacular point alpha
  06/29/15
you got the message.
Thriller Nibblets
  06/29/15
Have we spoken off-bort?
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
I did and if you havent been able to tell, I've completely r...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
What the hell is martoma?
dashing disgusting locus
  06/29/15
xo martoma
galvanic confused hell sound barrier
  06/29/15
That some kind of cancer?
Olive Spot
  06/29/15
You're in Martoma now.
Metal Sadistic Love Of Her Life Masturbator
  06/29/15
...
Olive Spot
  06/29/15
One thing that really factors in your job search is uh...how...
dashing disgusting locus
  06/29/15
HYS are need grant schools, but with base loans of ~45K/yr 1...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
You've come a long way, man. Regardless of what happens in ...
Irradiated university
  06/29/15
Lol my level of fortitude. I suppose in some ways I've soldi...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
why do you keep bringing up scumbag lawbreaker martoma? you ...
Mauve International Law Enforcement Agency Parlor
  06/29/15
Well he's enjoying prison because of securities fraud, not b...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Sorry, was gone for a while. You can e-mail me at 30ssphr@g...
Irradiated university
  06/30/15
Emailed you
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/30/15
...
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  06/29/15
Emailed you
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
YOU WILL GET IN EVERYWHERE YOU APPLY
Electric Tank Sandwich
  06/29/15
There are a lot of middling firm that are happy to have an H...
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  06/29/15
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canary dilemma
  06/29/15
cr Only way you don't get a law firm job is by being fuck...
zombie-like spectacular point alpha
  06/29/15
Satellite NYC office? Like a firm based mostly in DC/Chicago...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
This is inching into flame territory but you've played it pr...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
100% not flame. I'd poast my transcript if it didnt out me &...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Don't worry about what your friends think. You're not going ...
Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression
  06/29/15
Nearly every firm of any size has a New York office and thos...
Histrionic dark ratface
  06/29/15
I figure if I go to my UG market, there's no getting out. Th...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
The latter.
Histrionic dark ratface
  06/29/15
Well that's the situation where I'll have to hide my head fo...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
You have to embrace it. You may be surprised by what you fi...
Irradiated university
  06/30/15
If not flame, pull your grades up 2L and 3L. You can always...
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  06/29/15
Well the easy culprit to point the finger at is Adderall for...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/29/15
Don't talk about adderall in a job interview. Find a better ...
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  07/01/15
What the hell does 'bottom of the class" mean? If it...
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  06/29/15
1 LP or so
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  06/29/15
This is impt - what does "or so" mean? 1 LP and 2 ...
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  07/30/15
I graduated near the bottom of my class from HYS a few years...
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  06/30/15
You graduated at the bottom? Where were you at OCI time? ...
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  06/30/15
how does one get "lucky" a few years ago in a way ...
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  06/30/15
cq
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  07/01/15
You are a dumb asshole for caring what your friends think of...
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  06/30/15
OP here. Agreed. How should I strategize OCI & stealth g...
Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt
  06/30/15
Protip: these insufferable faggots that need to keep up appe...
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  06/30/15
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  06/30/15
Don't worry about your classmates' opinion. If you are real...
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  07/01/15
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  07/01/15
What's considered median upon graduation at H?
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  07/01/15
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  07/01/15
How do you know you're bottom of the class? Median after 1L ...
overrated forum
  07/01/15
Dude you will be fine every HYS grad who tries can get a job...
walnut idiot menage
  07/01/15
If Martoma is the way to go, it's now or never
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  07/23/15
Low vault firms will be happy to take you. But this is real...
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  07/24/15
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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:23 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

1L pumo here (well used to be 1L).

MBB?

Dropout?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224088)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 10:14 PM
Author: stirring library mediation

I didn't think HYS even *have* a bottom. I thought everyone at HYS is in the top half.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28234035)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 8:18 AM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Well you thought wrong. Even YLS (which I may or may not have gotten into, and may or may not be currently attending), with the most "mysterious" grading system, has a "creme de la creme" who amass all the Honors, with few to spare for the rest.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28237078)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:25 PM
Author: Bateful shimmering locale

HYS is worth the prestige.

You can probably get some government job and PAYE/PSLF it out. Also one of the few schools where non-law is an option.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224106)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:29 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

What Non-law options?

Can I do non-biglaw for my 2L summer and gun for 3L OCI?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224138)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:29 PM
Author: Bateful shimmering locale

Get your grades up, and try to land an in-house gig 2L.

You might have a shot at AmLaw 200.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224141)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:45 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

I have a shot at an Inhouse gig or AmLaw 200 as a 2L?

Any chance I can grind my way back to V-something respectability land as a 3L?

Or will I forever feel ashamed of telling my classmates where I'm "summering"?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224254)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:47 PM
Author: Bateful shimmering locale

Possibly with grades.

And yeah, V200 and MidLaw will still be options for you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224279)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:43 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

You were a CCN bro right? What makes HYS so special but median @ Chicago pwned?

Is MBB my only save-face route?

You got a throwaway to chat off-bort?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225116)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:50 PM
Author: dashing disgusting locus

Why the heck do you think MBB is that easy to get into?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225143)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:59 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

not that it's easy, people just think MBB is grade-indifferent in hiring law grads. true to an extent, but MBB isn't exactly where the misfit toys of law school go to "find" themselves either. the people they hire from law school and business school tend to have pretty strong records whether they're actively screening for grades or not.

not that it isn't worth trying. you have little to lose aside from the time prepping case interviews. generally not all of MBB is even willing to hire law students though. mckinsey is the most receptive.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225194)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:32 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

OP here. Not flame: I interviewed with one of BB for 1L summer. Had a 800 Math SAT on my resume (and high 700s on the other 2 sections). Didn't get the job because it turned out they were just doing a "trial" recruitment program on 1Ls and only hired 1 out of 25 people who received a 1st round invite.

But case interviews ain't no sweat.

And McKinsey and its 2L & 3L hiring are much larger than this BB "trial" on 1Ls, though even BB have "established" but slim 2L & 3L hiring.

It won't be easy, but I was asking whether it/Goldman/JPM/etc are my only chances at getting out of 2L OCI with my head held high instead of hidden between my legs. Or Martoma

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225385)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:30 PM
Author: razzmatazz learning disabled trump supporter church building

it is currently your 1L summer? what are you doing?

what is your UG major?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224147)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:32 PM
Author: curious irate meetinghouse macaca

how'd you let this happen bro? didnt you read xo's advice on 1l?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224155)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:54 PM
Author: Metal Sadistic Love Of Her Life Masturbator

Please link us to these threads, lad, so we can avoid the shameful fate of faggot OP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225162)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 8:19 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

You've been on xo forever. Def longer than I have. Are you seriously about to start 1L?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225985)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:37 PM
Author: dashing disgusting locus

Home market?

Other markets with ties?

Work experience?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224198)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:38 PM
Author: rough-skinned people who are hurt

cqs

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224205)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:43 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

K-JD. Summer work exp @ bigname PI law (think ACLU), and a V100 firm. That was all pre1L.

1L summer: RAing for an Ivy-->Rhodes/Marshall-->YLS-->Feeder CoA-->SCOTUS prof. Makes the NYT every now and then, gets involved in litigation.

Just NYC and my UG "market" which I'd rather not go back to.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224236)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:46 PM
Author: rough-skinned people who are hurt

EDIT nm u answered ur market sry

EDIT EDIT

do you plausibly have any connection to a non-NYC market (where you would also be willing to live)?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224273)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 4:39 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Nah, grew up in MFH metro area.

Can I hide my head between my tails, "choose" not to do 2L OCI to save face, then gun back to top 3rd (doable but improbable) for 3L OCI?

Doable at HYS?

Or are my only options Martoma/drop-out/self?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224714)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 4:46 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

deliberately not doing 2L OCI makes zero sense. collecting no call backs and just not showing up is the same for 3L OCI. might as well go.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224756)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:42 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Were you HUG or HLS? I know you're one or the other.

You have a throwaway to chat off-bort?

What about the shame of striking out @ OCI? By "choosing" to sit it out, at least I'm going out on my own terms, then "rediscover" myself during 3L OCI

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225111)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:52 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

sorry i try not to get too specific about that and i don't talk to people off the board. i'll answer any questions you have, within reason, on the board though.

my point about OCI is that you just don't gain anything. it's like someone who got no-offered over the summer telling 3L OCI they "chose" to withdraw from offer consideration before decisions were made bc they knew they didn't want to work at the firm. i know a guy who actually did do this, but the fact he could honestly say he withdrew before getting a decision on whether he'd get an offer was meaningless because it strains credulity to think someone "voluntarily" withdrawing was doing it for any reason other than to strategically avoid the stigma of a no-offer that was all but certain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225152)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 8:26 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

I mean you don't have to tell me anything about yourself. It'd just be a faster way to chat than this shitbort. I thought it was already widely known that you were an H alum, probably not practicing in MFH.

Yea quitting only allows the "he did it to preempt NO OFFER" inference, but doing something non-big law doesnt have to imply "He struck out at OCI." Could be "he came to LS wanting non-biglaw, so he did that as a 2L, but his 2L job supervisors commended the training of biglaw, hence why he's interviewing for biglaw as a 3L"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226034)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 8:34 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

You can do both. People do oci and the public interest job fairs. I don't know what "bottom of the class" means but unless it's like straight LPs and Fs I don't think you're wasting your time at oci. Your CSO should provide pretty useful tables of X grades got Y amt of callbacks and whatnot as at HYS level schools are pretty transparent about that stuff. Shouldn't be a problem to get Y and S's data sheets if you're at H too, and vice versa. Look at some hard data before you call oci hopeless.

If you want to be a lawyer I don't think you should drop out. If you're just in law school because hey it was there, I dunno. But it's worth doing oci I'm guessing.

Edit: also if you do want to be a lawyer and like litigation and strike out at OCI start setting yourself up to clerk. Not at all unheard of for people who struck out or got latham'd to play their way back in after one or two clerkships.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226083)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:05 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

I'm RAing for this Rhodes/Marshall-->YLS-->SCOTUS prof who's helped a former student (now a T14 tenured prof) land a feeder CoA clerkship despite the student's self-professed low grades. That former student then killed it at that feeder clerkship and went on to SCOTUS.

I gunned pretty hard in his class toward the end, mostly to cop dat RA gig. But I blew it with him gradewise.

Can I actually gun back to respectability for 3L hiring or a clerkship? Do V-firms consider apps from HYS/EDNY clerks who didnt do a 2LSA there, or will my resume just get tossed into the black hole?

If so, how?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226718)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:11 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

Yes vault firms consider resumes from people who clerked and not all had biglaw SAs.

I don't see why you can't get some amlaw SA next summer though. Focus on bidding. Get your school's callback/offer data. Work hard in your RA assignments. If you get nothing out of oci talk to the clerkship office start of 2L year about gunning for clerkships.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226755)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 7:04 PM
Author: glassy titillating nursing home

Skipping 2L OCI just to save face with your classmates? Lol, fuck your classmates.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225547)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 3:47 PM
Author: dashing disgusting locus

What kind of litigation are we talking about? Environmental? Civil rights? You could leverage that maybe.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28224275)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 8:28 PM
Author: henna violent digit ratio

Do OCI with all of the worst firms that go to your school's OCI. All of the bottom of the v100, non-V100 firms -- and then spam the fuck out of every semi-respectable firm in the NY area (basically anything paying 1st years 100k+) and the area of your school. You'll be fine. If not, start positioning yourself for Gov. The market is actually pretty good now for new lawyers at the high end and HYS should still be good enough to cop you a spot somewhere. Honestly could see you lucking out and copping a totally decent SA job with a mid-V100 biglaw firm, depending on how chill abro you are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226046)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 9:53 PM
Author: zombie-like spectacular point alpha

Holy fuck this.

The New York offices of the Kattens/Troutman Sanders's/Haynes Boones would jizz themselves over an HYS SA.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226645)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:45 PM
Author: Thriller Nibblets

you got the message.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225124)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 5:48 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Have we spoken off-bort?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225134)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:02 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

I did and if you havent been able to tell, I've completely reversed course on that stuff. You can even call me a crusader against the fraudlies of "doctors."

But I am where I am, and yes you told me so. No one to blame but myself.

Where to go from here?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225212)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:04 PM
Author: dashing disgusting locus

What the hell is martoma?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225220)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:05 PM
Author: galvanic confused hell sound barrier

xo martoma

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225229)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:37 PM
Author: Olive Spot

That some kind of cancer?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225407)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:24 PM
Author: Metal Sadistic Love Of Her Life Masturbator

You're in Martoma now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226855)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:45 PM
Author: Olive Spot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227050)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:06 PM
Author: dashing disgusting locus

One thing that really factors in your job search is uh...how much debt do you have?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225233)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:38 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

HYS are need grant schools, but with base loans of ~45K/yr 1 of my parents literally has been enjoying EBT & Medicaid and the other isn't doing much better, so family contribution = 0.

So ~135K at graduation, pre interest. Maybe less because that assumes the standard CoL budget, while I'm, err, very minimalist re room & board & otherwise mandatory school insurance obviated by copping dat MA/CT/CA ACA expanded Medicaid.

May be eligible for EBT for my 2L year.

And yet, I still care about emerging from OCI with my head held high and not between my legs.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225416)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:44 PM
Author: Irradiated university

You've come a long way, man. Regardless of what happens in this specific situation, don't give up. I wish I had your level of fortitude.

As far as practical advice, I don't know enough to have much to offer. If the NY area is where you are from, is there some sort of Midlaw that you could target in NJ/LI/CT? Upstate NY? If you can drop down a level in terms of competitiveness, you will find that your credentials cut a lot more ice.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225452)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 8:18 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Lol my level of fortitude. I suppose in some ways I've soldiered on with rough hide. Yet in another sense, I am where I am because of some poor choices in moments of great weakness.

TY for the words of encouragement, but encouragement doesn't erase pasts like Martoma.

In a vacuum I'd be fine with LI/NJ midlaw (if they even come to OCI), but a primary consideration is not being embarrassed to face my "friends."

You available to chat off-bort?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225977)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:23 PM
Author: Mauve International Law Enforcement Agency Parlor

why do you keep bringing up scumbag lawbreaker martoma? you know many people graduated at the bottom of HYS and had just fine careers and lives without committing securities fraud and going to federal prison for 9 years.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226852)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 11:00 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Well he's enjoying prison because of securities fraud, not because of...

Which may be my only way out if my back's against the wall and the only alternative is /self

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227199)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 1:03 AM
Author: Irradiated university

Sorry, was gone for a while. You can e-mail me at 30ssphr@gmail.com.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28228229)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 1:32 AM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Emailed you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28228374)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:19 PM
Author: soul-stirring brunch jewess



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225305)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:39 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Emailed you

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225421)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 6:37 PM
Author: Electric Tank Sandwich

YOU WILL GET IN EVERYWHERE YOU APPLY

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28225409)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 9:44 PM
Author: Histrionic dark ratface

There are a lot of middling firm that are happy to have an HLS bro. Unless you are rocking a lot of LPs, I have to imagine some satellite NYC office or some jersey firm would hire you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226578)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 9:53 PM
Author: canary dilemma

cr

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226646)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 9:59 PM
Author: zombie-like spectacular point alpha

cr

Only way you don't get a law firm job is by being fucking lazy and entitled. Network and mass mail you piece of shit.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226687)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:09 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Satellite NYC office? Like a firm based mostly in DC/Chicago/CA but has an NYC office?

Or truly mid/shitlaw like Neva-Hearda-It LLP, Madison, NJ?

Basically I just want to avoid my "friends" thinking "he's only going there because he was too dumb/lazy to cop Cravath, which incidentally is where I'm going"

Not just for ego but because I want them to think and remember me as competent 10yrs down the road

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226744)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:12 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

This is inching into flame territory but you've played it pretty well so far.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226765)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:18 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

100% not flame. I'd poast my transcript if it didnt out me & if I werent so embarassed by it.

I've also talked to a few HYSmos offbort at length who can vouch for my not being flame if they happen to be reading this.

What can you, an H alum, tell me that Career Services can't? With them, there are politeness norms, institutional brand to preserve. You: no holds barred.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226809)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:36 PM
Author: Self-absorbed sienna set indirect expression

Don't worry about what your friends think. You're not going to pretend your way into telling them you work at cravath so stop saying weird stuff about how you want your classmates to think you're competent and work at WLRK or something. Your grades are your grades.

Focus on getting a $160k job. When I was in law school it wasn't all that uncommon for someone to turn down a high rank firm for something more "chill" (although that took a lot of unfortunate souls to Latham instead of DPW).

Middling grades can also pull off the occasional Jones Day or Fried Frank. Apply broadly guided by CSO data. I don't know what else to say without repeating myself.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226968)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:40 PM
Author: Histrionic dark ratface

Nearly every firm of any size has a New York office and those types of firms (HQ in Pittsburg or something) are less selective than even the bottom of the V100. There are also half a dozen NJ firms that pay >100k and are notoriously unselective. Assuming you have ties to no where (how bad was UG location?) these seem like the most reasonable to obtain places.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227002)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:58 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

I figure if I go to my UG market, there's no getting out. The city itself is SPS.

How Satellite are we talking? Are we talking Sidley, whose Chicago office is great but its NYC office SPS, but still tolerable because it trades on the Sidley name?

Or are we talking a firm HQed in Pittsburgh no one's ever heard of, which happens to have an NY office?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227177)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 11:00 PM
Author: Histrionic dark ratface

The latter.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227195)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 11:02 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Well that's the situation where I'll have to hide my head forever in shame. Any way around that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227208)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 1:08 AM
Author: Irradiated university

You have to embrace it. You may be surprised by what you find.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28228252)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:22 PM
Author: Carmine adventurous business firm

If not flame, pull your grades up 2L and 3L. You can always play the "it took me a while to "get it" card." 1L grades are important, but not quite as important as they seem. You'll cop something either as a 3L or position yourself very well to lateral. You'll be ok, just don't give up.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28226848)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:40 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Well the easy culprit to point the finger at is Adderall for fucking me up on testday (but ultimately that's on me for falling into this fraud).

So I don't know how much I can figure out what's wrong and fix.

But do I just hide my head for all of 2L year, too ashamed, until I'm ready to reemerge for 3L jobs? What do I say to my classmates who ask?

How bright or dim are my prospects for 3L/postgrad if I improve slightly? If significantly?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227004)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 10:39 AM
Author: bat-shit-crazy stage organic girlfriend

Don't talk about adderall in a job interview. Find a better excuse, seriously. And FYI, a low dose of adderall is the way to go for exams. Whatever you take to study, cut it in half. That way you can focus without getting tunnel vision.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28237561)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 10:50 PM
Author: grizzly windowlicker den

What the hell does 'bottom of the class" mean?

If it's straight Ps (which I believe is bottom 1/3 or so of the class) - you have a shot. If you have LPs or whatever, I think you're sort of fucked.

Also MBB is harder to get than biglaw...and the lifestyle blows just as much because you travel like 1/3 of the year.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227105)



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Date: June 29th, 2015 11:05 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

1 LP or so

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28227242)



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Date: July 30th, 2015 8:15 PM
Author: exhilarant nudist school cafeteria chad

This is impt - what does "or so" mean? 1 LP and 2 LP = huuuuuge difference (think V50 and sucking dick at penn station)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28445398)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 1:08 AM
Author: razzmatazz learning disabled trump supporter church building

I graduated near the bottom of my class from HYS a few years ago. I don't have any useful advice for you, since I got super lucky in my job hunt in ways that are is no longer possible to get lucky, but I can tell you that if your friends care so much about where other people are working, you need to get new friends.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28228257)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 5:13 AM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

You graduated at the bottom? Where were you at OCI time?

How did you get lucky and why can't I do the same?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28229039)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 7:57 PM
Author: exhilarant nudist school cafeteria chad

how does one get "lucky" a few years ago in a way that can't get replicated today?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28233091)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 5:30 AM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

cq

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28236766)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 6:33 AM
Author: boyish community account

You are a dumb asshole for caring what your friends think of the firm you are going to. Substantially less than 5% of them will stay at a V10 firm and make partner. (Even they will have many moments where they wish they could just walk into the ocean and drown a peaceful death.) The rest will be at some government TTT job or some lower vault firm within 5-10 years and will be in no position to look down on you, even assuming you haven't managed to move yourself up in the world in that amount of time. Stop being so concerned with what everyone thinks you vain pussy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28229102)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 7:45 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

OP here. Agreed. How should I strategize OCI & stealth gun back for 3L hiring?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28233030)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 9:30 AM
Author: Dull Passionate Principal's Office Skinny Woman

Protip: these insufferable faggots that need to keep up appearances and gossip about v-rankings of where their "friends" work are what make the legal profession terrible, and you're one of them. Jesus Christ you're an aspie loser.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28229348)



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Date: June 30th, 2015 8:53 PM
Author: zombie-like spectacular point alpha

This is the perfect description of ATL readers. Thank you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28233436)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 10:47 AM
Author: pontificating erotic area hissy fit

Don't worry about your classmates' opinion. If you are really at the bottom of the class, then you won't likely be running into them again professionally that much anyway.

I can remember meeting with my 1L section at the end of 3L, and a chick proposed that everyone go around and report where they were going to work after graduation. I hadn't found a job yet, and I thought, Good Lord, how insensitive that someone would suggest such a conversation. But I dutifully mumbled something about not having found a job yet, and the looks of schadenfreude I received from my "classmates" haunt me to this day. Most of those people are POS I'll never associate with, and they are not counselors today, could not even help someone with a speeding ticket, and served a few years as proofreaders before doing something else completely. Don't worry about their opinion. They are already in a receding parallel universe, in effect. And plan for a hard couple of years until you get your game.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28237590)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 3:33 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

"Plan for a hard couple years until you get your game."

Fuck my ass. Any hope of gunning my way back to respectability before 2L ends? By 3L recruiting? Before graduation? Ever?

If yes to any of those, how?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28239466)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 11:57 AM
Author: overrated forum

What's considered median upon graduation at H?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28238033)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 8:04 PM
Author: Marvelous peach orchestra pit newt

Is this somehow relevant to my plan to stealth gun my way back to ~median before 3L recruiting or graduation? Doable?

Tips on how to do that?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28241020)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 8:41 PM
Author: overrated forum

How do you know you're bottom of the class? Median after 1L is roughly 3 H's (maybe 4, but closer to 3, assuming all H's in 4-credit classes).

How would you even know what Median is upon graduation? You can only know if you're top 40%.

Your plan should be to get a respectable number of H's sprinkled in your transcripts moving forward. You're not somehow going to gun your way to top 1/3rd from bottom at HYS.

You should also do OCI. People swing V-20 with all P's.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28241201)



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Date: July 1st, 2015 8:08 PM
Author: walnut idiot menage

Dude you will be fine every HYS grad who tries can get a job now.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28241040)



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Date: July 23rd, 2015 11:28 PM
Author: Mentally impaired school

If Martoma is the way to go, it's now or never

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28400706)



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Date: July 24th, 2015 2:21 AM
Author: Useless filthpig theater

Low vault firms will be happy to take you.

But this is really an opportunity to do gov 2L summer.

If you still really want to do a firm even after interning in gov, you can always work your butt off, get your grades up, and do 3L interviewing (this market has come back and seems to be getting stronger). And you will always have gov as an exit option (KEEP IN TOUCH with people from your 2L summer) when you hate law firm life (which you will).

Also take the un exam if you have any interest in "international law."

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28401590)



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Date: July 30th, 2015 8:13 PM
Author: exhilarant nudist school cafeteria chad

wtf is the UN exam?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2922533&forum_id=2#28445382)