Home -> Law Blog Directory -> Legal News Blogs -> Legal Blog Watch

Legal News

: Legal Blog Watch

Why Should Law Schools Give Away Better Grades When They Can Sell Them Instead?

By Bruce Carton

The New York Times reports that next month, every student at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles will "awake to a higher grade point average," but not because of anything the students did. Rather, the school has simply decided that by retroactively inflating its grades by 0.333 for every grade recorded in the last few years, it can make its "make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market." I'm sure this type of thing happened all the time when Grasshopper Lipman was in law school last month or whenever it was, but back in my day the grading process worked something like this: You studied, you took a test, the professor gave you a grade, and, well, that was your grade. Who knew that there was an additional possible step where the school just turbo-boosted your GPA to make you look better? Had I been able to take advantage of such a booster program my grades might have been good enough to make me a real judge today, instead of just a fake judge. Now that we've established that law schools are willing to ignore and improve upon the actual grades students receive if it will make...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on June 22, 2010 (boomark / email).