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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP sounds like a mean girl to me seeking revenge on people who went to top schools.

If you cannot help him, just let him know OP so he can move on to someone who can. Try being decent during the holiday season.

I went to crappy state law school and have enough influence/power to help people regardless of where they went o school. I don't begrudge the Harvards of the world.[/quote]

OP here.  I guess my rant came off a little too ranty, but I was actually extremely nice and gentle with this person during our conversation.  And I am genuinely happy to help in how I can, including reviewing and providing feedback on his resume and passing it along when I can.  His attitude is what threw me off. [/quote]

Has he just started his job search? He’s in for a rude awakening but he’ll learn soon enough. I don’t know where this guy went to school. [b]I want to bottom of T14. [/b]But I have a lot of friends who went to places like Harvard and yell and in my experience they can have a lot of attitude. They can be very entitled not just about jobs they get, but also on what they work on once they’re there. They’re very into getting “good work.” Whereas people from my school were more just glad to have a job and would suck up and do a broader variety of things. [/quote]

Hilarious.  Why not just say "number 14"?  Or rather, why not say that you went to a top 25 school?  I'll tell you why - it's because you want to make very, very clear that you didn't go to schools 15-25.  [/quote]

NP but actually you’re wildly off base. As weird as it is, this is the convention for law schools. T3, T6, T10, and T14 are the tiers. It’s odd but lawyers get it. [/quote]

I'm not really T10 is a tier, but other than that, I agree. T14 is typically the cutoff for "national" law schools, or in other words a school that places its graduates across the country. [/quote]

I’m the one who wrote the typo-laden comment saying I went to a school at the bottom of tier 14. The reason not to say the exact school is to not identify myself and I’m also actually not sure exactly which number my school is right now.

As several other commenters have said, the different tiers of where you went to law school affects hiring. Thus it is relevant to this thread. Someone who went to a tier 3 or tier 6 school is going to have spent his law school and early career having a lot easier time finding a job. And often being wined and dined. That can create a level of arrogance and entitlement and more surprise when they have trouble figuring out what to do when they need to leave the law firm. Whereas people in my tier of law schools had to work harder and hustle more to get the same jobs. At the same time, we can sometimes get the same jobs as T6 and thus be more likely to interact with those people than people who are bottom of tier 25.

It’s all totally stupid and elitist because we all learn the same things in law school anyway, but hiring can be very elitist in the legal world. So which tier your law school was does affect your perspective and experience.[/quote]

This thread has become completely derailed and inane, but I will go ahead and add that the "T" before the various numbers stands for "top", not "tier." [/quote]

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