Law schools: we're going to artificially inflate grades to make people look better

I suppose this is the logical conclusion to the theory of social promotions, worrying about "self-esteem" more than achievement, grading on effort rather than results and the soft bigotry of low expectations.

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.

In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient...

I intentionally took a number of known brutal courses with known brutal profs as an undergrad and in grad school under the (apparently) erroneous impression that simply surviving those classes would better prepare me. Clearly I was a fool.

posted by Purp at 11:42 AM

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