<p>@Hanna: Hiring people from various firms show up on TLS from time to time. They uniformly say they treat transfers as if they were at the previous school. Intuitively, that’s really the only way they even could do it. A transfer after 1L has no GPA from the new school because OCI happens before 2L. The 1L grades are all they’ve got, and those grades are from the old school, not the new one. It makes no sense for them to pretend otherwise. You’re right that she’ll have more opportunities (because UM will actually have an OCI, unlike whatever school she’s at now), though I’m not sure the chances are better than a simple mailing campaign.</p>