Thursday, June 24, 2010

A Sign of Weakness

I’m not sure what to think of the following:
next month every student at Loyola Law School..will awake to a higher grade point average...The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years...to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.
It gets worse:
In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient.
At least I earned my too low for Raytheon GPA. This kind of thing does not produce better professionals; all it does is flood the market with poor entry level candidates in the high GPA pool. I am curious as to what law firms think of this, wouldn’t they avoid, or at least discount a little, students from law schools that publicize their grade inflation?

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