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<p>I meant admissions at NYU in general. Tisch is probably the most competitive school at NYU to get into (on the undergrad level).</p>
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<p>The single most important source they look at is the Vault rankings. You can predict pretty well which firms will be the most popular by looking at where they rank on that list. They check NALP to make sure the firm pays a market salary, if it didn’t give an offer to any of its summer associates from the previous year (though this won’t indicate how many “cold offers” were given) and to see if they generally allow summers to split with other firms (though some firms will allow this even if their NALP profile says they don’t). </p>
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<p>In addition to cocktail parties (which are sometimes limited to students receiving callbacks), biglaw firms will very often have “hospitality suites” wherever the screening interviews are taking place (which is often a hotel). They’re staffed by the recruiting personnel, and anyone who is interested in a firm but didn’t get an interview can stop by and drop off a resume, or even schedule an interview. It’s possible to get a callback after dropping off a resume and transcript at one of these.</p>
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<p>Since a callback is a pre-requisite for getting an offer, I’d say that’s certainly correct. I don’t know of any firms that give offers after only a screening interview, though I have heard that Greenberg Traurig did it at least once. As I mentioned, it’s possible to get a callback and offer without a formal screening interview, but an offer without a callback is almost unheard of.</p>
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<p>Employment prospects and, for that matter, the recruiting process itself, are not the same across the T14. Some schools publish class ranks and allow some pre-screening by employers. Firms may also have significantly different grade/rank cutoffs for different schools within the T14.</p>