<p>Admittedly, the law schools I know best are ranked higher than Emory, but I’m very familiar with how OCI went at schools in the T10-14 range. It doesn’t make sense to me that there would be dozens or hundreds of jobs through OCI at those schools and 1 at Emory, especially given that it is the highest-ranked school in its state.</p>
<p>The dean’s letter was a response to ATL’s inquiry, not to the student’s email. Deans often don’t deny imaginary accusations; they don’t want to play defense. If they deny one set of allegations and fail to respond to another, then that will be taken as an admission. Also, if they don’t want to disclose the exact number of OCI jobs (which was surely low), then denying a proposed number practically forces them to reveal the actual number.</p>
<p>I remain willing to be convinced if we can get any data that comes from Emory. Are your Emory sources telling you that they know this from the talk around school, as opposed to that one email? Because if true, the '12 law review members, at least, would surely be in open revolt. Students wouldn’t need an email to learn that fall OCI had been a complete failure.</p>
When I spoke to them (a few months ago), my two friends didn’t seem to have any concrete information which would confirm or deny the fact. (They were also just 1Ls at the time.) Gossip around Emory seemed to take the e-mail as based on true facts, but admittedly that was just gossip and it was immediately after this e-mail was sent out.</p>
<p>EDIT: Seems to me the post is almost a year old, but it didn’t come to my attention at the time. I think I first saw it in November or so. Not clear how my friends got the e-mail. “Yeah, I saw that e-mail” may well mean that Emory kids are passing it amongst themselves or something.</p>
<p>You can tell my discussions with them were very fuzzy. I didn’t want to discuss it too extensively.</p>