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I, for one, would like to thank UVA for helping me cut through your "Does Not Rank" BS.

I, for one, would like to thank UVA for revealing how much grade inflation occurred after the new grading policy. Geis's hiding the grade books plan just failed.

I am a little pissed that this much grade inflation has occurred. I would have changed my class schedule had I known the new grading policy had such a dramatic effect.

Anonymous User wrote:I, for one, would like to thank UVA for revealing how much grade inflation occurred after the new grading policy. Geis's hiding the grade books plan just failed.

This. Although to be fair, these are grades after three semesters. You'd expect to see some regression to the mean after six.

sundance95 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:I, for one, would like to thank UVA for revealing how much grade inflation occurred after the new grading policy. Geis's hiding the grade books plan just failed.

This. Although to be fair, these are grades after three semesters. You'd expect to see some regression to the mean after six.

Actually, if Cornell is any example, you start seeing divergence to a bi-modal distribution. People at the top keep trying and protect their gpa, everyone else doesn't.

Arbiter213 wrote:

sundance95 wrote:

Anonymous User wrote:I, for one, would like to thank UVA for revealing how much grade inflation occurred after the new grading policy. Geis's hiding the grade books plan just failed.

This. Although to be fair, these are grades after three semesters. You'd expect to see some regression to the mean after six.

Actually, if Cornell is any example, you start seeing divergence to a bi-modal distribution. People at the top keep trying and protect their gpa, everyone else doesn't.

Thanks a lot Koch brothers.

Entering 1L here, but what is the new grading policy? Is it for the purpose of raising the median to meet firm cutoffs at OGI?

monsterman wrote:Entering 1L here, but what is the new grading policy? Is it for the purpose of raising the median to meet firm cutoffs at OGI?

For any class, if the classes' mean GPA is a 3.35 or above, professors have the discretion to curve to the class mean, rather than the 3.3(4). This won't do anything to your grades first semester, as you the professors won't have anything to curve to.

monsterman wrote:Entering 1L here, but what is the new grading policy? Is it for the purpose of raising the median to meet firm cutoffs at OGI?

It will have close to a zero effect on your grades 1L year.

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So, basically, if you're between #4 and #322 in a class of 344, you are clerkship material.

This chart should be a sticky.

hiima3L wrote:So, basically, if you're between #4 and #322 in a class of 344, you are clerkship material.

This chart should be a sticky.

The list included anyone interested in clerking in any court, not just federal courts. People at #322 might not be out of the running for a trial court clerkship in Montana.

I'm surprised so much of their class is interesting in clerking

Desert Fox wrote:I'm surprised so much of their class is interesting in clerking

Having gone to UVA, let me assure you in the eyes of the clerkship office, "having an interest in clerking" includes things like "expressing an interest in clerking" as well as "having a pulse and a GPA above 3.0"

thesealocust wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:I'm surprised so much of their class is interesting in clerking

Having gone to UVA, let me assure you in the eyes of the clerkship office, "having an interest in clerking" includes things like "expressing an interest in clerking" as well as "having a pulse and a GPA above 3.0"

This. The first chance to express "interest" is during 1L when of course everyone is still mathematically in the clerkship game.

Anonymous User wrote:

hiima3L wrote:So, basically, if you're between #4 and #322 in a class of 344, you are clerkship material.

This chart should be a sticky.

The list included anyone interested in clerking in any court, not just federal courts. People at #322 might not be out of the running for a trial court clerkship in Montana.

RC fail on my part.

Anyone got a list with names, I wanna stalk my summers.

Desert Fox wrote:Anyone got a list with names, I wanna stalk my summers.

Do you not have access to their resumes?

Pokemon wrote:

Desert Fox wrote:Anyone got a list with names, I wanna stalk my summers.

Do you not have access to their resumes?

Not that I know of.