2L Spring Grade Waiting Room Forum
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got all my grades back. +1 to 2LOL. Can't wait for 3LOL!
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Grades back. GPA still dropped, but I'm up from last semester.
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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?
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Pretty much, yeah.LazinessPerSe wrote: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?
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.
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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.
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- kalvano
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SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.Miller32 wrote: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.
Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.
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3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.kalvano wrote:SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.Miller32 wrote: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.
Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.
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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.
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Is that low or high? From reading about what other people post, I feel like it's low.a male human wrote:3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.kalvano wrote:SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.Miller32 wrote: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.
Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.
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It's around median at my school, so it's pretty far from 10%.kalvano wrote:Is that low or high? From reading about what other people post, I feel like it's low.a male human wrote:3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.kalvano wrote:SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.Miller32 wrote: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.
Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.
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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 wrote:Is that low or high? From reading about what other people post, I feel like it's low.a male human wrote:3.5-3.6 as 10%? Wow, crazy. There's such a huge difference between half a GPA, like 3.5 and 3.0.kalvano wrote:SMU has fixed Latin honors, but Coif varies. Cum laude is 3.2, Magna is 3.6, Summa is 3.8.Miller32 wrote: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.
Top 10% is usually between 3.5 and 3.6.
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3.092 for my 2L class, as of right now. It will go up some.beach_terror wrote: 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).
Basically, if you're top 33%, you get cum laude.
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with honors = top 35%Miller32 wrote: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 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.
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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 failbeach_terror wrote: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.

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Yo kegs, got all grades?
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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 wrote:Yo kegs, got all grades?
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Fuck yeah. Trying to do same, personally.keg411 wrote: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 wrote:Yo kegs, got all grades?
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- stratocophic
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got median pwned

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got paid last week

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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.keg411 wrote: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 failbeach_terror wrote: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.).
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We call it Wills & Trusts, and most people have said it's prevalent on the bar, but nothing you can't learn in BarBri.
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Took exam 4/18, finished directed research in late March. Neither grades back yet. Come the fuck on.
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Grading writing competition entries gave me disturbing thoughts about how professors grade exams.
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Quite roughly?goodolgil wrote:Grading writing competition entries gave me disturbing thoughts about how professors grade exams.
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.
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Mostly because how little of a fuck I have. I tried to give a fuck, but it was really hard.a male human wrote:Quite roughly?goodolgil wrote:Grading writing competition entries gave me disturbing thoughts about how professors grade exams.
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.
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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:
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