Preparing for the Recruit Special Edition
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Student input requested! RORY SMITH (3L)
As a student, I saw the opportunity at Ultra Viresincredible is once again people gearing up for its Recruit SpeMcMillan to work with cial Edition. And we’re looking for input on how to conduct who would mentor and be this year’sme coverage. committed to my success. Access to many students each f irm A longside the data of how hired, gave the centerpiece high caliber work me theof the recruit special is the extensive survey f illed out by 2L students. The questions include deopportunity to build upon my strengths, tailed demographic questions to shed more insight on the composition the 2L class elevate my profile and of continue to(complementing the entry data compiled by admissions) as well as recruit-specif ic quesadvance within tionsthe suchfirm. as the number of applications sent out, of fers re-
ceived, 1L grades, etc. If you have any burning questions about the 2L recruit Sandra Zhao that you would like answered or any ideas on what you would like to see in the upcoming Recruit Special, please Partner, Capital Markets, M&A Group email editor@ultravires.ca. and China PracticeFor Group example, previous articles have focused on the impact of 1L grades on recruit success, correlations between success in the dif ferent 1L classes, and recommendations for future students undergoing the recruit. For other examples of typical Recruit Special coverage, you can access prior Recruit Specials (as far back as 2014) at ultravires.ca under the “Special Features” tab. In previous years, the demographic and recruit questions have been aggregated into one omnibus anonymous survey. This allowed for statistical analysis showing whether any demographic factors were predictive of recruit success. 2017 • 2018 • 2019 •However, 2020 historically, the only signif icant predictive factors have been 1L GPA and being in the JD/MBA program. (And even then, these factors were associated only with
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OCI success, not with recruit success. See last year’s article “Factors Associated with 1L Grades and Recruit Success: Nothing predicts anything” for more details). Crucially, none of the demographic factors have shown any signif icant correlation over several years of data. On the f lip side, combining the two sets of questions reduced students’ privacy and potentially allowed their 1L grades and recruit success to be linked to their personal identity - especially for those students with distinctive demographic prof iles. While U V tries its best to eliminate the chances of any given student being identif ied (the precautions will be the subject of an entire forthcoming article) there is always the risk that a student’s responses could be traced back to them personally. Given the sensitive nature of some of the questions asked, this risk could understandably cause some students to decline to answer certain questions (or decline to f ill out the survey entirely). Because we want the survey to honestly ref lect students’ experience with the recruit, this year, U V is planning to separate the demographic and recruit surveys. The demographic survey will contain detailed questions about age, sex, race, income, debt, etc. The recruit survey will ask about 1L grades, extracurriculars, applications, OCIs, inf irms, etc. If you have any thoughts on the change, please contact us at editor@ultravires.ca. Ultimately, we are only as good as the data we collect, and we can only collect the right data if we know which questions to ask. Please help us make this Recruit Special the best one yet.
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