So
I'm positive I'm going to UWS or Notre Dame
Is it possible to land a job with a top-tier firm?
I don't know. It depends on:
- Grades (D average I'd say for top tier)
- Extra curricula
- Who you know
- Appearance (do you have big boobs/pecs? know how to dress CBD?)
- Application (whether the computer picks up relevant key words and whether its eye catching, your CL/resume is appropriately original whilst remaining conservative)
- Social skills
If some blonde hardbody applied to my firm with a D average, 3 scholarships, played water polo for Australia at the Commonwealth games and whose father was wing on my rugby team and she went to UWS I'd probably ask her to forward my resume and look after her application myself.
If I had a UNSW student with a pass average and two fails, no extra curricula bar a BOS platinum account who showed up to my office in a YD suit and pointy elf shoes who spent the whole interview weezing from asthma I'd have him escorted out.
In short, going to UWS might be seen at worst as having a five second handicap in a marathon, you're up against it but certainly not out of the race.