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Re: Harvard Student(s) Answering Your Questions

Post by ph14 » Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:29 pm

Yukos wrote:A related question: the amount of units a class counts for is meaningless, since there's no GPA, right?
Well, it factors into latin honors I think. And maybe law review grade-ons.

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Post by Yukos » Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:44 pm

ph14 wrote:
Yukos wrote:A related question: the amount of units a class counts for is meaningless, since there's no GPA, right?
Well, it factors into latin honors I think. And maybe law review grade-ons.
How do those work? Is there a formal way to calculate GPA based on H/Ps?

Thanks for your responses, really curious about this system.

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Post by ph14 » Sat Jan 26, 2013 3:46 pm

Yukos wrote:
ph14 wrote:
Yukos wrote:A related question: the amount of units a class counts for is meaningless, since there's no GPA, right?
Well, it factors into latin honors I think. And maybe law review grade-ons.
How do those work? Is there a formal way to calculate GPA based on H/Ps?

Thanks for your responses, really curious about this system.
P = 3.0
H = 4.0
DS = 5.0

Weighted by the number of credits and then averaged.

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Re: Harvard Student(s) Answering Your Questions

Post by Yukos » Sat Jan 26, 2013 4:14 pm

ph14 wrote:
Yukos wrote:
ph14 wrote:
Yukos wrote:A related question: the amount of units a class counts for is meaningless, since there's no GPA, right?
Well, it factors into latin honors I think. And maybe law review grade-ons.
How do those work? Is there a formal way to calculate GPA based on H/Ps?

Thanks for your responses, really curious about this system.
P = 3.0
H = 4.0
DS = 5.0

Weighted by the number of credits and then averaged.
Oh, so you can really easily calculate your GPA. Funny that employers still just go with "count the Hs" then.

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Re: Harvard Student(s) Answering Your Questions

Post by Hattori Hanzo » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:00 pm

For latin honors, every year's GPA is calculated separately and then 3 years are averaged.

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Post by ph14 » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:05 pm

Hattori Hanzo wrote:For latin honors, every year's GPA is calculated separately and then 3 years are averaged.
Oh, that's a weird way of calculating it that minimizes credits. That doesn't make any sense to calculate it that way.

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Post by Yukos » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:06 pm

ph14 wrote:
Hattori Hanzo wrote:For latin honors, every year's GPA is calculated separately and then 3 years are averaged.
How would that change anything?
If you take a lot of credits one year and very few the next, this method would lessen the importance of the first year and raise the importance of the second.

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Post by ph14 » Sat Jan 26, 2013 5:07 pm

Yukos wrote:
ph14 wrote:
Hattori Hanzo wrote:For latin honors, every year's GPA is calculated separately and then 3 years are averaged.
How would that change anything?
If you take a lot of credits one year and very few the next, this method would lessen the importance of the first year and raise the importance of the second.
Yeah, just realized that's what he meant. That sounds incredibly stupid to me, but whatever.

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Post by contrapositive1 » Sat Jan 26, 2013 10:49 pm

what class is the hardest?

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Post by Hattori Hanzo » Sun Jan 27, 2013 4:03 am

Fed courts.

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Post by Ballislife » Sun Jan 27, 2013 10:55 pm

Has anyone heard any good reviews about the elective Business Strategy for Lawyers taught by Kathryn Spier?

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Post by DoubleChecks » Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:30 pm

Ballislife wrote:Has anyone heard any good reviews about the elective Business Strategy for Lawyers taught by Kathryn Spier?
I'm in it now so obviously can't comment on how it is yet, but I had her for Anal Meth a year ago and she was good/nice. She's straightforward, moves a bit slow through the materials. Not too much reading and asks for volunteers/does not really cold call.

Class is not very intense, but does require regular attendance (we have weekly "quizzes" that are really just attendance/reading checks -- very easy). It is practical and, I assume, what a class over at the b-school would feel like (one of the ones that is not too quantitatively focused).

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Post by Mista Bojangles » Mon Jan 28, 2013 1:44 pm

DoubleChecks wrote:
Ballislife wrote:Has anyone heard any good reviews about the elective Business Strategy for Lawyers taught by Kathryn Spier?
I'm in it now so obviously can't comment on how it is yet, but I had her for Anal Meth a year ago and she was good/nice. She's straightforward, moves a bit slow through the materials. Not too much reading and asks for volunteers/does not really cold call.

Class is not very intense, but does require regular attendance (we have weekly "quizzes" that are really just attendance/reading checks -- very easy). It is practical and, I assume, what a class over at the b-school would feel like (one of the ones that is not too quantitatively focused).
wow. where can i get some of that

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Post by delusional » Mon Jan 28, 2013 2:00 pm

Mista Bojangles wrote:
DoubleChecks wrote:
Ballislife wrote:Has anyone heard any good reviews about the elective Business Strategy for Lawyers taught by Kathryn Spier?
I'm in it now so obviously can't comment on how it is yet, but I had her for Anal Meth a year ago and she was good/nice. She's straightforward, moves a bit slow through the materials. Not too much reading and asks for volunteers/does not really cold call.

Class is not very intense, but does require regular attendance (we have weekly "quizzes" that are really just attendance/reading checks -- very easy). It is practical and, I assume, what a class over at the b-school would feel like (one of the ones that is not too quantitatively focused).
wow. where can i get some of that
You can take it this semester with me and Cope.

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Post by bigbang » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:32 pm

GRADES ARE UP ON HELIOS!!

Does anyone know what a "H*" means (as opposed to H)?? Is that a DS or something else??

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Post by ph14 » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:33 pm

bigbang wrote:GRADES ARE UP ON HELIOS!!

Does anyone know what a "H*" means (as opposed to H)?? Is that a DS or something else??
Its a ds. I think its a bug it should say underneath that it is a deans scholar prize.

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Post by bigbang » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:37 pm

ph14 wrote:
bigbang wrote:GRADES ARE UP ON HELIOS!!

Does anyone know what a "H*" means (as opposed to H)?? Is that a DS or something else??
Its a ds. I think its a bug it should say underneath that it is a deans scholar prize.
Oh wow, thank you! That's awesome :)

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Re: Harvard Student(s) Answering Your Questions

Post by Blessedassurance » Mon Jan 28, 2013 4:47 pm

is it useless to calculate after 1 semester? What's median?

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Post by delusional » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:01 pm

Blessedassurance wrote:is it useless to calculate after 1 semester? What's median?
After one semester, counting Hs should be enough. Calculation is really only relevant to latin honors anyway, apparently.

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Post by Mista Bojangles » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:09 pm

if i did well, is it worth shooting transcripts to summer 1L applications i've already sent off, even if they didn't request them?

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Post by ph14 » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:11 pm

Mista Bojangles wrote:if i did well, is it worth shooting transcripts to summer 1L applications i've already sent off, even if they didn't request them?
Yes. Absolutely.

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Post by KindleNexusfan » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:13 pm

being the sick sort of person that I am, the only question on my mind now is: when do J-term grades come out?

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Post by Blessedassurance » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:14 pm

delusional wrote:
Blessedassurance wrote:is it useless to calculate after 1 semester? What's median?
After one semester, counting Hs should be enough. Calculation is really only relevant to latin honors anyway, apparently.
How many H's is median after 1 semester? Seems impossible to determine...

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Post by bigbang » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:19 pm

Blessedassurance wrote:
delusional wrote:
Blessedassurance wrote:is it useless to calculate after 1 semester? What's median?
After one semester, counting Hs should be enough. Calculation is really only relevant to latin honors anyway, apparently.
How many H's is median after 1 semester? Seems impossible to determine...
I think it's pretty hard to determine after 1 semester... I thought median was something like 3-4 H's per year, but I could be wrong.

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Post by delusional » Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:31 pm

Blessedassurance wrote:
delusional wrote:
Blessedassurance wrote:is it useless to calculate after 1 semester? What's median?
After one semester, counting Hs should be enough. Calculation is really only relevant to latin honors anyway, apparently.
How many H's is median after 1 semester? Seems impossible to determine...
It probably is impossible, when you consider that median is likely three Hs, and there are likely a plurality of the class at median, most of whom will have a 1/2 or 2/1 distribution over the two semesters.

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