February 1st, 2006
seriously, people, I expected better
Lemme throw out another mystifier.
There’s this firm, let’s call them Pretty, Big & Fancy, My career services advisor recommended I send a resume to them, because they seem to have practice areas I’m interested in. (They were also interviewing on campus, as part of Winter OCI, but I didn’t get an interview with them.)
Yesterday, I got a letter from them–a rejection letter, naturally–in response to my resume, which stated that they had had so much success with their 2L recruiting that they weren’t hiring any 1Ls.
Excuse me, what? They’re not hiring 1Ls, but they interviewed three of my friends (and at least 10 other people) here on my campus last week? So either the person writing the letter fibbed because it seemed nicer or that person didn’t know they were interviewing 1Ls on campus. Either way, not a good sign.
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Or they interview, on the off off off chance they find the next Scalia or Bader-Ginsberg or some such, but then they don’t so they don’t hire any 1Ls.
Still, bummer.
I just submitted all my stuff yesterday, and I think that they are just checking out the pool for next year. At my school, LCS pretty much encourages only the people with top top top grades to apply for 1L OCI. So… that’s any easy way for employers to see if they want to bother next fall.