<p>“I’m saying that firms report that they hire transfers as if the transfer student were at the other school.”</p>
<p>And I’m saying, that’s not consistent with many of my observations. Often, NO ONE from the other school got hired at these firms. Zero. The composition of the summer classes is known.</p>
<p>Firms do NOT report anything on this subject. According to you, your source is anonymous posters on TLS who claim to be hiring people from top law firms. We don’t know who they actually are. There may well be firms that view transfers simply as students at the first school, but many firms treat them as hybrids (which they are going to be by the time they graduate). I have observed firm hiring across markets from within a T14 school that took a lot of transfers.</p>
<p>Of course firms care about grades. You didn’t respond to my point, which is that firms care about the label on a person as well as the person’s brains. Labels matter in our profession.</p>