Best major (choosing between better employability and poli sci).

Demosthenes49
Thu, 14 May 2015 00:20:01 +0000

@SoccerMomGenie: So, when you were involved at hiring at a very large law firm, your firm didn’t have a GPA floor for each school? I find that quite impressive, as it’s a practice I despise but one that law firms seem to universally value. Similarly, your firm wasn’t one that would automatically call back those with higher GPAs? Again, that’s really a good thing, but surely you must recognize that it’s not the common method at OCI.

As for the very large company, you’re right that these companies can and often do care about things besides law school GPA (although it’s usually experience; I haven’t heard of a company that cares for “story”), but they are also rarely involved in entry level hiring. Just about every major company I can think of pulls from BigLaw rather than bringing in 1st years. There are a few exceptions, like HP, but they absolutely have GPA cutoffs.