Grade Reform
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Grade Reform, Law Schools
Harvard Law School Will Now Hide GPAs (Or At Least Force Employers to Buy a Calculator)
Let’s close the loop on the latest changes to the Harvard Law School grading system. Last month, we reported on stealth grade reform at HLS. The school decided to attach numerical values to all of its grades — and place students numerical GPAs on their transcripts. That was a big deal because Harvard made a […] -
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Harvard Law School to Stealth Grade Reform
Last year, Harvard Law School abandoned letter grading and went to a High Pass/Pass/Low Pass/Fail system. The news was greeted with much fanfare, as it seemed like HLS was trying to become a kinder, gentler academic environment — one that wouldn’t be dominated by cutthroat competition to beat the curve. You know, something like a […] - Sponsored
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Grading Shenanigans at Harvard Law School? Spring Evidence Students Confronted 'Irregularities'
It’s nearly August. But at Harvard Law School, administrators are still trying to sort out what happened with Professor Bruce Hay’s spring Evidence course. Not that grades matter all that much at HLS. The most important part of an HLS student’s transcript is the part at the top that says “Harvard Law School.” Heck, the […]
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Stephen Colbert Rips Loyola-L.A.'s 'Foolproof Plan to Get Their Graduates Better Jobs'
Loyola Law School (Los Angeles) hoped to quietly jump on the grade-inflation bandwagon in order to help make its students more competitive in the legal marketplace. The school bumped letter grades up a notch, so that a C- became a C, a B became a B+, and an A+ became an A+you’reasuperamazinggunnerrockstar. But the quiet […] -
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A Brawl at DePaul Over Grades
We’ve done a lot of reports on schools that have instituted grade reform to make it easier on their students. But at DePaul College of Law, the administration decided to strictly enforce its curve as a way of combating wanton grade inflation. Apparently not all of the professors were on the same page. Professor Howard […] -
Grade Reform, Law Schools
Tulane: The Latest School to Adopt Grade Reform
By this point, you know the drill with grade reform: A) Law school experiences embarrassing employment outcomes. B) Administration refuses to admit legal education is ridiculously overpriced given the soft job market. C) Students demand immediate administrative action to help students find work. D) Administration has precisely zero ideas on how to help students get […] -
Grade Reform, Loyola Law School
Loyola Law School (L.A.) Retroactively Inflates Grades
We reported in November that Loyola Law School of Los Angeles was thinking about artificially raising grades. In response to the terrible economy, the school has acted on the proposal. Here’s the opening line of the message from Loyola Law Dean Victor Gold: Last week the faculty approved a proposal to modify the grading system. […] -
Grade Reform, Law Schools
New York Law School Student Plea for Pass/Fail Grading Results in Epic Fail
Here’s a little rule I just made up: People who do poorly in legal writing at New York Law School should not file pro se complaints against their school. It’s a good rule for people who don’t want to embarrass themselves. I think I’ll call my brand-new maxim the “Timothy Keefe Rule.” The kid deserves […] - Sponsored
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Grade Reform
Harvard Law School Grade Reform Update
Yesterday, we reported that Harvard Law School was making a change to its grading curve before finals. We told you that HLS lifted the requirement to have a certain percentage of the class received a “low pass” in the law school’s new High Pass/Pass/Low Pass/Fail grading system. After our report went live, Harvard Law School’s […] -
Grade Reform, Law Schools
Harvard Law and Georgetown Law Make Grading Easier
Given the state of the legal economy, I don’t have a problem with grade inflation at top law schools. The job market is terrible enough as it is. If an extra (inflated and totally BS) third of a grade helps a student get a job right now, I think that is fine. Whatever, sometimes you […] -
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Harsh Curve: Competing Thoughts From Florida International and Loyola - Los Angeles
Last year, moving away from letter grades was all the rage. Harvard Law School and Stanford Law School both dumped letter grading. But now grade reform has spread to schools that are tinkering with their curves. USC Law decided to give students an extra .1 — you know, ’cause it looks better. NYU Law also […] -
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Grade Reform at USC Gould School Of Law: Here's a Free .1
At least the USC Gould School of Law is being relatively honest. According to the administration, USC students do not get grades on par with students at peer institutions. This hurts USC students in the job market. The most simple way to fix this discrepancy is to just give everybody at USC Law an extra […] -
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A Columbia Potpourri: Columbia Talks About Deans and Grades But Provides Little Information
Here’s our best attempt to tie up a few loose ends on the strange saga of Columbia’s Career Services’ Dean, Ellen Wayne. Many CLS students were, frankly, pissed to hear of Dean Wayne’s departure via ATL. This was sent to the entire law student body earlier this week: Dear Students, As you may know, speculation […]
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Grade Reform, Law Schools
HLS Grade Reform: Splitting the Baby Was The Only Call
When Harvard law school announced that they would be dropping their letter-grading system in favor of a pass/fail system, we noted that the school had not yet decided how to apply the new system to current law students: But the crucial question is whether this new system will be applied retroactively to the classes of […] -
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Grade Reform Comes to the University of Chicago? Not So Fast My Friends
The University of Chicago Law School is ranked as the seventh best law school in the nation according to U.S. News and World Report. As we have extensively reported, the top-six schools (Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, NYU, Berkeley) have all moved away from letter grading towards a modified pass/fail system, or are contemplating such a […] -
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NYU Law Grade Reform: Another Law School Loses Its Fastball
Remember the barely watchable movie Major League II? Ricky “Wild Thing” Vaughn arrives at spring training with an assortment of off-speed curveballs and change-ups, abandoning his 100-mph-plus fastball essentially because he’s gone soft. That (terrible) plot is being carried out by the nation’s top law schools. We’ve reported on HLS and SLS moving away from […] -
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Columbia: Are You Ready For Some Grade Reform?
Earlier, we told you that Harvard and Stanford were replacing letter-grades in favor of a “we’re all winners” system. We then reported that the NYU Law School student newspaper published essentially an open letter, begging Columbia not to follow suit. As you might imagine, Columbia is totally unconcerned with NYU law students and their opinions. […] -
Grade Reform, Law Schools
NYU Law Freaks Out Responds To Grade Reform
According to our poll Tuesday, the majority of you prefer a traditional A,B,C,D grading system over a modified Yale system like the ones adopted by Harvard and Stanford. Apparently, NYU law students agree that A,B,C,D is the best way to go. In The Commentator, NYU Law School’s student newspaper, Andrew Gehring vehemently disagrees with the […] -
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Grade Reform Reaction Roundup
Last week we told you that Harvard and Stanford law schools were enacting sweeping grade reform. Reactions came in from students and alumni from many top schools. One close friend emailed: If Harvard had this when we were in school, I’d be emailing you from DPW right now. Suffice it to say, the friend emailed […] -
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Stanford Adopts 'Retroactive' Honors Policy:Students Complain In Real Time
Update: Harvard Law School also just announced changes to its grading system that will make it more like the Yale and Stanford systems. See here. In May, we reported that the faculty of Stanford Law School voted to change their grading system. The school went from the traditional “A, B, C, Die” system to a […]