1) That is tuition. Combined with living expenses, it reaches over 60k a year so about 180k total. My bad.
2) I don’t know how magna was aportioned before. Law School scores are not subjective by any means. The faculty at harvard is mostly extremely liberal now and every conservative knows you have to bend over backwards even by legal standards to justify Roe v. wade. From the only article that has come out of Obama from his law school years, he toed the liberal line in not giving fetuses legal rights.
Errata: Objective* by any means ...
Other posts on here have discussed how grading works at HLS:
1. The grades in law school courses depend entirely on the final exam.
2. When the professors receive the final exams they contain only code numbers in place of identifying names. Grading is anonymous.
I do not think it is plausible that any student could earn consistently good grades in all their courses merely by spouting left-wing propaganda on all their exams.