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The stats behind Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Law Review
Comments (4)I’m a law school nerd and watched Obama speech with a friend who asked me what it really means to be Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Law School, one of the credentials that I find most indicative of Obama’s intellectual horsepower.
Every year around 7,500 people apply to Harvard Law School. Roughly 560 students matriculate with, on average, a 3.8 undergrad GPA and a 99th percentile LSAT score. After 1L year studying legal theory, around 40 of the best students are appointed to Harvard Law Review based on their first year grades and writing. Law Reviews are highly competitive student run scholarly journals considered mandatory by many for high-end legal careers. For the 7% that make it on to Law Review, 2L year is more legal theory plus highly detailed editing of emerging legal scholarship pending publication in the journal. At the end of 2L year, one member of Law Review is elected to be the next year’s Editor-in-Chief by the existing members. The Editor-in-Chief then runs the process of producing the next year’s editions of the journal. Since 1887, 121 people have been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Law Review. There were more than 7,000 Rhodes Scholarships granted during the same period.
It’s the recruiters, stupid!
Jobs have long been targeted on the web. The economics involved are attractive. People want good jobs and employers are willing to pay for good employees.
In the last ten years, hundreds of businesses have launched with the goal of using the web to bring efficiencies to job markets and capturing value in the process. As a result, newspaper classifieds have died, consumed almost entirely by dynamic, searchable sites with tens of millions of listings.
Recruiters and headhunters, on the other hand, haven’t gone anywhere. Read more »
