Northwestern 1L/2L/3L/Grads Taking Questions and Challenges Forum

[VulcanVulcanVulcan]

Saw the registrar posted the honors stuff.

(1) Summa? Gat damn. Not shocked though.
(2) Coif and magna nearly overlapped. That's an outlier thing right?
(3) A quick eyeball count was about 140 cum laude grads lol.

Uh, yeah. Usually Magna is around 10-15 students. My class is a bunch of gunners.

So that basically implies that Coif is like, just below 3.97? Like 3.95?

[09042014]

Anyone know how many people graduated?

[Bumi]

I count 162 total grads with some kind of Latin honors. There are 294 entries in the JD Facebook. But like, who cares? Is 2L+3L grade inflation bad for anyone?

The situation is unfortunate for the people who i assume exist who ended with a 3.9x and no coif. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again next year though. The 2013s always said we are gunnerier than they were.

[09042014]

I count 162 total grads with some kind of Latin honors. There are 294 entries in the JD Facebook. But like, who cares? Is 2L+3L grade inflation bad for anyone?

The situation is unfortunate for the people who i assume exist who ended with a 3.9x and no coif. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again next year though. The 2013s always said we are gunnerier than they were.

I LOVE the grade inflation.

[D-hops]

I count 162 total grads with some kind of Latin honors. There are 294 entries in the JD Facebook. But like, who cares? Is 2L+3L grade inflation bad for anyone?

The situation is unfortunate for the people who i assume exist who ended with a 3.9x and no coif. I wouldn't be surprised if it happens again next year though. The 2013s always said we are gunnerier than they were.

I think there is a difference between the crazy gunning of 2014s and the silent gunning of 2013s. The grade distributions and number of curved / uncurved classes have been the same over the years so I imagine this year is a bit of an anomaly where the same group of people were getting consistently high grades. In year's past the grades are more spread out and I think this class was just a bit top heavy.

[Bumi]

I count 162 total grads with some kind of Latin honors. There are 294 entries in the JD Facebook. But like, who cares? Is 2L+3L grade inflation bad for anyone?

I LOVE the grade inflation.

Ha yeah I don't know why I wrote it that way. Of course TLS loves it. I am just nervous they are gonna do something about it because some of the profs think we have it too easy.

[09042014]

I count 162 total grads with some kind of Latin honors. There are 294 entries in the JD Facebook. But like, who cares? Is 2L+3L grade inflation bad for anyone?

I LOVE the grade inflation.

Ha yeah I don't know why I wrote it that way. Of course TLS loves it. I am just nervous they are gonna do something about it because some of the profs think we have it too easy.

They are the ones doling the A's out.

[Holly Golightly]

Also, D-Rod's a dick, but even he has to see that making our grading scale harsher would only have negative effects on employment.

[Cobretti]

Firms don't typically re-calculate their GPA cutoffs every year right? If they started grading harsher wouldn't the immediate effect probably just be c/o 2016 underperforming at OCI when we don't meet their established cutoffs?

Or would they have to provide %tiles to firms, and effectively rank us for them (going against current OCI policies)?
ETA: I guess 2L and 3L grades wouldnt matter

[Georgia Avenue]

summa basically means you got straight A+s through law school, right? that's so fucking sick.

[bk1]

summa basically means you got straight A+s through law school, right? that's so fucking sick.

2/3 A+s, 1/3 As at a minimum.

[splitsplat]

summa basically means you got straight A+s through law school, right? that's so fucking sick.

2/3 A+s, 1/3 As at a minimum.

all men were not created equal....

[Aasterinian]

summa basically means you got straight A+s through law school, right? that's so fucking sick.

2/3 A+s, 1/3 As at a minimum.

god, do some people actually get that? every year?

[bk1]

summa basically means you got straight A+s through law school, right? that's so fucking sick.

2/3 A+s, 1/3 As at a minimum.

god, do some people actually get that? every year?

Once every 4-5? years. Definitely not every year. Someone got it this year though.

[Cobretti]

summa basically means you got straight A+s through law school, right? that's so fucking sick.

2/3 A+s, 1/3 As at a minimum.

god, do some people actually get that? every year?

Once every 4-5? years. Definitely not every year. Someone got it this year though.

Just curious... was it someone everyone always knew was a gunner, or someone totally unexpected?

[Flips88]

Just curious... was it someone everyone always knew was a gunner, or someone totally unexpected?

Nah. The guy was just extremely intelligent—he has a PhD in engineering and worked for a big tech company before law school. After having 1 class with him, I was completely unsurprised he got it.

[homestyle28]

Just curious... was it someone everyone always knew was a gunner, or someone totally unexpected?

Nah. The guy was just extremely intelligent—he has a PhD in engineering and worked for a big tech company before law school. After having 1 class with him, I was completely unsurprised he got it.

[norkanite]

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[Holly Golightly]

I managed to completely avoid doing anything related to business in law school

[splitmuch]

I managed to completely avoid doing anything related to business in law school

You never did pay any attention to harlan, did you?

[Icculus]

I managed to completely avoid doing anything related to business in law school

You never did pay any attention to harlan, did you?

burn.

[splitmuch]

I managed to completely avoid doing anything related to business in law school

You never did pay any attention to harlan, did you?

burn.

Just saying that the class felt very MBA-y...of course that may have simply been because I wasn't really learning anything.

[Icculus]

I managed to completely avoid doing anything related to business in law school

You never did pay any attention to harlan, did you?

burn.

Just saying that the class felt very MBA-y...of course that may have simply been because I wasn't really learning anything.

Agreed on both counts.

[Holly Golightly]

It was a Thursday night class, of course I wasn't listening. I had also a drink with me every time.

[Holly Golightly]

Our Dean is an idiot who can't attach images to emails, and apparently thinks Scalia is Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.