<p>See how many firms come to a school to give interviews. Pretty help when picking a law school.</p>
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<p>In this economy, this information is changing quite rapidly as firms cancel their previously scheduled interviewed at many law schools and/or reduce the number of interviewers they are sending (thus, reducing the number of students who will be interviewed). In addition, many employers are shortening their summer associate programs, reducing the number of job offers that they make to ensure that their yields for their summer associate programs won’t be too high and reducing pay. This is all in flux right now.</p>
<p>And what this never tells you is how many interviews they conduct at these schools, what their cutoffs are and how many people they actually hire. Most schools rank students and allow employers to “pre-screen”; they can decide not to interview anyone who isn’t in, say, the top 15%, or on law review, or both. Sometimes there’s then a lottery among students who meet those criteria to determine which of them get interviews. In some cases, a firm may be unimpressed with the students that it gets through this system and decide not to bother interviewing at the school at all.</p>
<p>At high-ranking schools, there is often no published class rank and employers are not allowed to pre-screen. Typically, firms decide how many interview slots they want, the students rank their choices and a computer assigns interviews based on availability. The firms then have to interview whoever gets a slot. This isn’t to say they don’t have GPA cutoffs for these schools, but it at least helps students get their foot in the door, and someone with a 3.4 but unusually impressive resume may get an offer at a firm that usually has a 3.5 cutoff for their school. Without knowing more about the way OCI works at a particular school, these lists can be misleading.</p>