2L Spring Grade Waiting Room Forum

[moandersen]

got all my grades back. +1 to 2LOL. Can't wait for 3LOL!

[rad lulz]

Grades back. GPA still dropped, but I'm up from last semester.

[LazinessPerSe]

This is a really naive (potentially stupid) rising 2L question - but do grades not matter because 2L OCI > SA > Offer, where 2L OCI is completed in early 2L Fall?

[JusticeHarlan]

This is a really naive (potentially stupid) rising 2L question - but do grades not matter because 2L OCI > SA > Offer, where 2L OCI is completed in early 2L Fall?

Pretty much, yeah.

Also, curves can sometimes be more favorable after the first year, so median in a 2L class is often a better grade than median in a 1L class, depending on what your school's policy is and what classes you take.

[Miller32]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

[kalvano]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.

Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.

[a male human]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.

Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.

3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.

[beach_terror]

Anyone in here take decedents trusts and estates (or wills/estates, whatever they call it) and can tell me it's not worth taking? Practitioners have told me it's a must take, but I can already tell it'll bore me to death, and I figure bar prep would be sufficient to teach me the basics of anyway. I'm trying to fit in bankruptcy or another more useful class, and decedents is 3 credits I could free up for something else.

[kalvano]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.

Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.

3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.

Is that low or high? From reading about what other people post, I feel like it's low.

[a male human]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.

Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.

3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.

Is that low or high? From reading about what other people post, I feel like it's low.

It's around median at my school, so it's pretty far from 10%.

[beach_terror]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.

Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.

3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.

Is that low or high? From reading about what other people post, I feel like it's low.

What's your median? Our median is a 3.0, cum laude is around a 3.6 (10%), magna around a 3.75 (5%), and summa is top 2 students (I think).

[kalvano]

What's your median? Our median is a 3.0, cum laude is around a 3.6 (10%), magna around a 3.75 (5%), and summa is top 2 students (I think).

3.092 for my 2L class, as of right now. It will go up some.

Basically, if you're top 33%, you get cum laude.

[de5igual]

I know it varies by school, but how do latin honors usually go? Cum laude to top 10%, top 20%? My school has a moving scale, and it's not clear how they actually decide the cut-off.

with honors = top 35%
with high honors = top 5%
Coif = top 10%
Chancellor = top 16 people

class of 2010 (and before) had a fixed 3.3 gpa cutoff for "with honors." considering median at graduation is like a 3.45, probably 60-70% had honors back then.

[keg411]

Anyone in here take decedents trusts and estates (or wills/estates, whatever they call it) and can tell me it's not worth taking? Practitioners have told me it's a must take, but I can already tell it'll bore me to death, and I figure bar prep would be sufficient to teach me the basics of anyway. I'm trying to fit in bankruptcy or another more useful class, and decedents is 3 credits I could free up for something else.

I'm taking Trusts & Estates, but that's because that type of stuff is interesting to me and its the type of class I do well in (whereas, I'd think bankruptcy is another horrible statutory class that I'd epic fail ).

[rad lulz]

Yo kegs, got all grades?

[keg411]

Yo kegs, got all grades?

Yuppers. Things turned out okay, but I've definitely learned my lesson about taking difficult curved classes all in the same semester. On the plus side, I got them all out of the way except for CrimPro (not taking SecReg/Admin/FedCourts), so 3L year should be fun times. And I also realized that I need fewer credits than I thought, so no more hell semesters.

[rad lulz]

Yo kegs, got all grades?

Yuppers. Things turned out okay, but I've definitely learned my lesson about taking difficult curved classes all in the same semester. On the plus side, I got them all out of the way except for CrimPro (not taking SecReg/Admin/FedCourts), so 3L year should be fun times. And I also realized that I need fewer credits than I thought, so no more hell semesters.

Fuck yeah. Trying to do same, personally.

[stratocophic]

got median pwned


got paid last week

[beach_terror]

Anyone in here take decedents trusts and estates (or wills/estates, whatever they call it) and can tell me it's not worth taking? Practitioners have told me it's a must take, but I can already tell it'll bore me to death, and I figure bar prep would be sufficient to teach me the basics of anyway. I'm trying to fit in bankruptcy or another more useful class, and decedents is 3 credits I could free up for something else.

I'm taking Trusts & Estates, but that's because that type of stuff is interesting to me and its the type of class I do well in (whereas, I'd think bankruptcy is another horrible statutory class that I'd epic fail ).

Yeah I hear that. I'm hoping that my summer job turns into an offer or that I have a job by graduation if not, that way I can take classes that would be helpful to what I want to do second semester 3L.

[kalvano]

We call it Wills & Trusts, and most people have said it's prevalent on the bar, but nothing you can't learn in BarBri.

[Antilles Haven]

Took exam 4/18, finished directed research in late March. Neither grades back yet. Come the fuck on.

[goodolgil]

Grading writing competition entries gave me disturbing thoughts about how professors grade exams.

[a male human]

Grading writing competition entries gave me disturbing thoughts about how professors grade exams.

Quite roughly?

Just today I was thinking back to my contracts final where the prof put a ? because I used a semicolon, and I guess that threw him off from his autopilot mode.

[goodolgil]

Grading writing competition entries gave me disturbing thoughts about how professors grade exams.

Quite roughly?

Just today I was thinking back to my contracts final where the prof put a ? because I used a semicolon, and I guess that threw him off from his autopilot mode.

Mostly because how little of a fuck I have. I tried to give a fuck, but it was really hard.

[txlawgirl]

The school I attend claims that the professors have 30 days to grade our exams (30 days from the exam or 30 days from when the last exam was taken). I have searched everywhere and cannot find this in any written policy. Do any of your schools have a written policy indicating when grades are due? If so, is there a penalty for not getting them in within the time limit? :roll: