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IN LAW SCHOOLS, GRADES GO UP, JUST LIKE THAT
New York Times ^
| June 22, 2010
| Katie Orlinsky
Posted on 06/22/2010 5:49:02 PM PDT by Dr. Eckleburg
One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average.
But its 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...
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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: hls; lls; loyola; loyolalaw; loyolalawschool
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To: Dr. Eckleburg
That’s brilliant, eh?
WTF?!!!
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posted on
06/22/2010 5:52:58 PM PDT
by
Irenic
To: Dr. Eckleburg
This will make their degrees worth as
much as used Charmin paper
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posted on
06/22/2010 5:53:26 PM PDT
by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
To: blue-duncan; wmfights; Forest Keeper; HarleyD; Alex Murphy; Gamecock; RnMomof7; metmom; TSgt; ...
Loyola.
Shading the truth.
Imagine that.
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posted on
06/22/2010 5:54:32 PM PDT
by
Dr. Eckleburg
("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Corrupt fake degrees for a corrupt fake industry.
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posted on
06/22/2010 5:56:44 PM PDT
by
FormerACLUmember
("Subtlety is not going to win this fight": NJ Governor Chris Christie)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
They'd like their students to gain in
status and
reputation, so they'll just inflate their grades... sigh!
That's a special kind of ignorance that only the highly trained can achieve.
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:03:02 PM PDT
by
MarineBrat
(Better dead than red!)
To: Irenic
It worked for Obama .. why not everyone?
Real accomplishments dont matter anymore.
To: Dr. Eckleburg
AS if the employers won’t know! LOL!
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:08:26 PM PDT
by
Lynne
To: Dr. Eckleburg
AS if the employers won’t know! LOL!
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:08:33 PM PDT
by
Lynne
To: Dr. Eckleburg
The sad truth is that the vast majority of employers only look at the degree earned and the school name - not the GPA - in most cases.
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:18:55 PM PDT
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: SunkenCiv; JoeProBono; STONEWALLS; Publius Valerius; investigateworld; fluffdaddy
To: TexasFreeper2009
I suppose you’re right.
That law education won’t much matter.
We have little dictators making law, these new lawyers will just be actors keeping the illusion we ruled by laws.
They go to court put on a show for us, use a few fancy words, collect some money off us and *ta-da* all is good with the world and ruling class.
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:22:48 PM PDT
by
Irenic
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Enough of the half measures, A+ and honors for everyone. Send a tuition check, receive a grade transcript and diploma.
But wait...a person can already do that at the lower priced diploma mills.
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:22:48 PM PDT
by
count-your-change
(You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
0bongo also got a lot of grade inflation in law school.
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:24:59 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid - Gen Eisenhower)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:30:37 PM PDT
by
RnMomof7
To: Dr. Eckleburg
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...And the people doing the hiring in that "competitive job market" will never suspect a thing.
(Shhh...)
To: Lancey Howard
I am hoping the State Bar Exams will separate the wheat from the chaff.
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:49:32 PM PDT
by
BooBoo1000
(If a country is good enough to live in, it good enough fight for. Vet 1st. Marines)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
Wish my undergrad school thought like that!
When I first went there, they had an archaic grading system:
- A = 3 points
- B = 2 points
- C = 1 point
- D = -1 point!
- F = -2 points!!
When I went back -- after a stint in the USAF, they had changed to the standard four-point system. But they refused to alter my earlier grade points... :-(
(Did anyone even notice that the old "penalty" system did not even include ZERO -- or that a "F" wiped out a "B" in another course...?)
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posted on
06/22/2010 6:58:12 PM PDT
by
TXnMA
("Allah": Satan's current alias...)
To: hennie pennie
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posted on
06/22/2010 7:25:29 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
("Fools learn from experience. I prefer to learn from the experience of others." -- Otto von Bismarck)
To: Dr. Eckleburg
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posted on
06/22/2010 7:35:41 PM PDT
by
PAR35
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