@SuaveCrouton: it's vandy haha but also ik the waitlist is huge so I'm just gonna stay hopeful but know it's probably not gonna happen but it's my top school so hurts like heck.
SuaveCrouton
15:09
@Seagulleagle10: I'm waitlisted there as well with a 162 and 3.0 and I know I have basically 0 chance of getting off it
think i will find a more substantive answer on reddit, but is there a real functional difference between chances at clerking coming from UVA v Columbia? I know the odds are tough either way, but i'd really like the option to do so if i perform well in class...
yeah I haven't been able to figure out why they do it either but oh well best of luck to whoever manages to get off ik there are a lot of qualified candidates
SuaveCrouton
15:14
Yeah but you'd think they'd give people way below both medians the boot, instead they just waitlist us too.
add to that the noise surrounding NY fed judges' clerk hiring practices (usually have to have worked first, which distorts the data massively) and it's very hard to compare
@GloveDontSplitUMustAcquit: Maybe given their median and top 25 percentile are both 170 and 3.9+ gp, while their bottom 25% are 163 and 3.6 gpa means that they look for qualified candidates that are willing to go 100% to vandy if accepted.
idk but based on the stats maybe that's why they waitlist so many people idk
SuaveCrouton
15:21
Vandy has a low yield % because a lot of T-14 applicants use them as a backup, then withdraw when they get into a T-14. Still doesn't explain why they waitlist people wayyyyy below both medians
The 75th percentile is close to the median because it does nothing for a school's ranking, so for schools outside the T3 or T6, admitting "overqualified" applicants (well above median) who require a lot of $ and effort to enroll given their other options is not an efficient way to fill a class or maintain medians