Chances of Transferring

[Demosthenes49]

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@Hanna

All I can tell you is that firms that did not hire from the previous school at all would sometimes hire my transfers.

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<p>Well sure, of course they would. I’m not saying firms don’t hire transfers, I’m saying that firms report that they hire transfers as if the transfer student were at the other school. </p>

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That’s the only way they could do it if OCI hiring were all about ranking people by intellect based on grades. It isn’t. A lot of it is about branding. The same human being, with the same 1L year at DePaul, is a different corporate asset depending on whether he’s a DePaul 2L or a Michigan 2L. That may be silly, but it’s true

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<p>Firms care an awful lot about grades. Anyone who takes a look at hiring statistics notices the grade floors pretty quickly. Transfers tend to have pretty great grades from the transfer school, so it’s not terribly surprising they do alright at OCI.</p>

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It’s also extremely valuable to get in front of attorneys at OCI. People who are great interviewees in person can get callbacks that they would never get by mailing out their resume.

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<p>I think there’s definitely some value to actually getting the OCI interviews. Is that value worth paying two years full tuition? I think it’s pretty unlikely to be. </p>