Elite Law School Posts 1L Grades, But 4 Days Later... Oops
Once again, this law school can't seem to enter grades correctly.
Oh my, Georgetown Law can’t seem to do finals right anymore…
It turns out that for some Georgetown University Law Center 1Ls, the final grades posted to their student transcripts might not be correct. Sources at the law school say they received emails from the school today letting them know that the grades they thought they’d already received had been posted in error, and have subsequently been removed from their transcripts.
As one tipster notes:
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On Saturday two 1L grades were released suspiciously fast (little over a week after semester ended). Just got two emails that both grades were released in error and that they’ll be removed from transcript.
And tipsters note that it took the school an awfully long time to catch the mistake… which means there were four days students thought they had their grades when they did not.
Took them from Saturday till Wednesday to catch their mistake. Cruel…
Take a look at the rather…. perfunctory email students received notifying them of the issue, that doesn’t do much to examine how or why the screw-up happened:
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Two years ago, a similar incident happened and, at that time, Dean William Treanor called the issue “unexpected and unprecedented.” Now I guess it’s something expected and very much precedented… something the law school acknowledges with little more than an “our bad.” ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Academic performance causes enough stress and pressure for law students — particularly when the import of 1L grades is a constant refrain from the moment you start law school. Telling students four days after they thought they knew how they performed in core classes that “oops, those weren’t your grades” puts a plainly unfair emotional burden on students. Hopefully, Georgetown is quickly able to remedy the problem.
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, and host of The Jabot podcast. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter (@Kathryn1).
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