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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We had great experience w APS re class size. However my  kid who transitioned from Arlington public to private found he was ahead in math and behind in reading/writing.

My sibling who is a college professor says it’s shocking how many kids at selective colleges can’t write these days. APS should up it’s game in that regard. [/quote]

I’m the attorney who posted
 about our interns at Georgetown law. I feel that it is imperative that colleges begin communicating this to schools. Schools need to know that even their brightest aren’t prepared for college.[/quote]

How are you hiring?  Are they submitting writing from the law school year?

Are you looking beyond Georgetown or just relying on the reputation of the school? These students aren’t the brightest if they can’t write, no matter what school they come from.  The smartest lawyers I know didn’t come out of the big-name schools-  that’s just an anecdote of course.
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Without revealing too much I work for one of the federal financial regulators. Our office does get the resumes directly. They goes to a hiring committee which selects certain resumes. When I was doing the interviews, I would get a couple of resumes from my associate director and those interviews would be scheduled. Two people from my office are present along with members of the hiring committee. We conduct the interview and then make a recommendation to our director on who to hire. The writing samples all look great and so do the students on paper. So it makes sense why they were selected for the interview in the first place. They also really interview well and seem pretty smart. They ask all the right questions. But then when they come to actually intern for us, I noticed that their writing skills are really poor. Very basic college level writing. Also there seems to be little attention to detail. I’ve never redlined this much in my life.

We do not only hire from Georgetown law. I mention Georgetown law because it is a top school and because I had three interns with really poor writing skills coming from there. All of them now have good jobs in highly regarded firms or agencies. We have had interns from various law schools - some better than others. But I did notice that as the years have gone by (I’ve been working for this office for 10 years), the interns we are getting have increasingly poor writing skills. So there seems to be a pattern. We do get interns with good writing skills but before every single intern would be an excellent writer, no matter where they graduated from. I haven’t been part of the hiring process for the past two years so I can’t speak as to the quality of  the applicant pool post Covid. I also am teleworking more and haven’t interacted with our interns as much. [/quote]

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