The name game
I just had to evaluate some applications for my law journal from transfer students. For whatever reason, the transfer applications are not done anonymously.
All I can say is that the regular applicants should be glad that they didn't have to put their names on their applications. When I open up your resume and it says "Patterson Williams IV" at the top, I have a really hard time looking at you seriously. fn1. Particularly given the law school this person attended (I don't want to give the name, but I will say it's named after a famous Confederate general), it's just screaming "I am a WASPy tool!"
Anyway, I think given the circumstances, I was more than fair and somewhat generous in my evaluation of these applicants. They were a fairly uninspiring lot, but I found some nice (and accurate) things to say.
1. Patterson Williams IV wasn't the actual name, but it was that "style" of name -- a first name that should have been a last name and a roman numeral at the end.
All I can say is that the regular applicants should be glad that they didn't have to put their names on their applications. When I open up your resume and it says "Patterson Williams IV" at the top, I have a really hard time looking at you seriously. fn1. Particularly given the law school this person attended (I don't want to give the name, but I will say it's named after a famous Confederate general), it's just screaming "I am a WASPy tool!"
Anyway, I think given the circumstances, I was more than fair and somewhat generous in my evaluation of these applicants. They were a fairly uninspiring lot, but I found some nice (and accurate) things to say.
1. Patterson Williams IV wasn't the actual name, but it was that "style" of name -- a first name that should have been a last name and a roman numeral at the end.
posted by N at 7:12 PM
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