Interesting.
Law schools have no standards.
And their graduates appear to minic that style to a grand degree.
‘Twould be fun to see if the Obamadork would have an average of 1% or 2% if he attempted a STEM major.
Most have daddies who write big checks to the endowment funds of these snob schools, so students don’t have to know much. After all it’s not what you know, but who you know in the incestuous Ivy League/government nexus.
It is amazing that SAT scores are going down and the number of honor graduates keeps increasing. Seems like almost half the class is cum-magna-summa.
After the mid-term exam was in, the professor posted the grade distribution. Results: No E's. No D's. One C. 199 B's and A's.
You would never see such a distribution in, say, a calculus or chemisty class.
There are many morals to this story. One of them is to never trust anything that comes out of a university's School of Education.
Policy adjustments in 2009...I wonder what possibly less than glowing information they are trying to hide for future graduates that manage to sneak by the Peter Principle?
When the grades are useless for distinguishing between the worst and the best, why, as a potential employer, do I want to reach into that grab bag at all? Eschew the Ivy League!
Getting into these schools is extremely competitive. You have to be at the top of your high-school class, and even that isn't a guarantee. Once you are admitted, you are among the best and the brightest. Sure, there are some "legacy" students that got admitted by family connections. But, most are already "high achievers".
Under those circumstances, you would expect most of the students to excel academically. If you decided to implement a traditional bell-curve, then you might assign 10% to "failing". If everyone effectively aced a test, how do you do that?
I've seen similar issues in a large company. One organization may have very high-performing employees, either due to the culture, leadership, or even because they were acquired in a merger. Another organization is largely "slackers", because their management lets them slide. But, if a company forces each to rank their employees and get rid of the lowest 10%, are they really solving the problem?
Read “Hilarity Ensues” by Tucker Max.
It’s extremely offensive to the easily offended (yeah, it’s funny!) but he does make a few good points about higher edjacashun.
In the near future, “Harvard Law graduate’ may replace, ‘rocket scientist’ and ‘space cadet’ as a synonym for ‘idiot’.
The school doesn’t have regular grades: just Honors, Pass, Low Pass, and President.
how many pass the a bar exam on the first try?