In Law Schools, Grades Go Up, Just Like That

New York Times ^ | June 21, 2010 | Catherine Rampell

[C19fan]

One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. But it’s not because they are all working harder. The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.

[C19fan]

In the immortal words of Dash Parr:

"If everyone is special, then no one is."

[Mobties]

“..... and all the children are above average.”

Why stop there? Maybe they should “fix” the record for LA’s other NBA franchise, the LA Clippers, to make their ticket sales improve.

[C19fan]

I wonder what happens if you work your butt off and earned for the sake of argument a 4.0. Are you now a 4.3 which does not exist as a grade point?

[central_va]

The unraveling of our society is accelerating. Que up DEVO.....

[OldMissileer]

Are you now a 4.3 which does not exist as a grade point?

It exists in the minds of liberals.

My daughter graduated High School with a 4.2 GPA and she only graduated 23rd out of 478 graduates!

I am still trying to wrap my head around that.

[afraidfortherepublic]

My daughter graduated High School with a 4.2 GPA and she only graduated 23rd out of 478 graduates!

Our twin nieces were valedictorians of their high school class -- along with 22 other people!

[sig226]

Did you hear that the Clippers just won the Superbowl? It was in the Times.

[sig226]

The cynic in me should drink his coffee faster.

Does this mean that a bunch of students who were about to flunk out will now continue to pay tuition?

[Mobties]

In the immortal words of Sir William Schwenck Gilbert (”There Lived a King”, Gondoliers):

“When every one is somebodee,
Then no one’s anybody!

Full lyrics and a MIDI of Sullivan's tune at link below

http://math.boisestate.edu/gas/gondoliers/web_opera/gond16.html

[Pollster1]

Perhaps they could revise our unemployment numbers next. Since the base level of unemployment is 5% simply due to normal job changing, they should subtract 5% from the total jobless rate in every unemployment report since the Obama Regime took power.

[CygnusTheSwan]

The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.

And that's all it's going to do.
Someone explain how this increase translates to better job performance once hired by an unsuspecting employer?

[PapaBear3625]

The cynic in me should drink his coffee faster. Does this mean that a bunch of students who were about to flunk out will now continue to pay tuition?

More to the point, it erases the distinction between those who worked their asses off to get a 3.7 to 4.0 GPA, and those who got below that.

Its purpose may be to allow law firms to make preferred offers to some people without risking reverse discrimination lawsuits from the current 4.0 crowd.

[driftless2]

"valedictorians"

They should enjoy it while they can. Some schools are making efforts to get rid of valedictorians and salutatorians. It's makes the kids who didn't get those honors feel bad, don't you know. Can't have anyone succeeding more than others. (smirk)

[C19fan]

Also, since the 1/3 point bump is the same for all students a slacker gets a bigger boost percentage wise to his/her GPA than someone who put in the effort.