Duke Law Review GPA? Forum

[ticklemesilly]

Anyone know the general cut off for Duke Law review? It's top 10% automatically grade on but they don't rank us. Anyone on DLJ willing to share what grades got them on?

[78623089]

You have to participate in write-on to grade on, ("Each year the Journal extends offers to approximately 39-42 rising second-year students, all of whom must have participated in the school-wide Casenote Competition to be eligible to receive an invitation to join"), regardless of grades. And even top 5% after one semester won't guarantee you anything for second semester if you can't hold the line. So be less presumptuous and similarly diligent.

[meat tornado]

Word on the street was that a 3.77 and above graded on, but it's not the top 10% of the class. 1/3 of the members grade on, 1/3 write on, and 1/3 get in through a combination of grades and casenote. I've also heard that they take the best writers first when choosing their roster, which makes it harder for people with lower GPAs to bootstrap into a spot.

[legallybrunette93]

You have to participate in write-on to grade on, ("Each year the Journal extends offers to approximately 39-42 rising second-year students, all of whom must have participated in the school-wide Casenote Competition to be eligible to receive an invitation to join"), regardless of grades. And even top 5% after one semester won't guarantee you anything for second semester if you can't hold the line. So be less presumptuous and similarly diligent.

That was unnecessarily hostile, someone can ask a simple question without being presumptuous, there's no need to be rude about answering it

[ticklemesilly]

Word on the street was that a 3.77 and above graded on, but it's not the top 10% of the class. 1/3 of the members grade on, 1/3 write on, and 1/3 get in through a combination of grades and casenote. I've also heard that they take the best writers first when choosing their roster, which makes it harder for people with lower GPAs to bootstrap into a spot.

Thanks! I'm not banking on being able to write on =)

[Whiskeytango5]

Word on the street was that a 3.77 and above graded on, but it's not the top 10% of the class. 1/3 of the members grade on, 1/3 write on, and 1/3 get in through a combination of grades and casenote. I've also heard that they take the best writers first when choosing their roster, which makes it harder for people with lower GPAs to bootstrap into a spot.

No one actually knows what the GPA is. How you became a member is never revealed to anyone and is handled through the few school admin people who run the casenote. All the journal does is submit each students casenote score.

[gravitygravity]

From what I know, of the current 3Ls on DLJ, the people who graded on had a little over a 3.8. The people who had a combo score tended to be in the mid 3.5 - mid 3.6 range. Grades don't matter for the 1/3 (~13ish) students with the highest casenote scores, although I would imagine that the majority of them probably had similarly above median grades.

[Whiskeytango5]

From what I know, of the current 3Ls on DLJ, the people who graded on had a little over a 3.8. The people who had a combo score tended to be in the mid 3.5 - mid 3.6 range. Grades don't matter for the 1/3 (~12ish) students with the highest casenote scores, although I would imagine that the majority of them probably had similarly above median grades.

Again no one has any idea what the grade on cut off is.

[Serett]

It's a hard 3.892

[gravitygravity]

From what I know, of the current 3Ls on DLJ, the people who graded on had a little over a 3.8. The people who had a combo score tended to be in the mid 3.5 - mid 3.6 range. Grades don't matter for the 1/3 (~12ish) students with the highest casenote scores, although I would imagine that the majority of them probably had similarly above median grades.

Again no one has any idea what the grade on cut off is.

Well, yeah, it changes each year. But I'm pretty sure some people do have access to that info if they have certain positions on the journal (although it's still anonymous).

[ticklemesilly]

From what I know, of the current 3Ls on DLJ, the people who graded on had a little over a 3.8. The people who had a combo score tended to be in the mid 3.5 - mid 3.6 range. Grades don't matter for the 1/3 (~12ish) students with the highest casenote scores, although I would imagine that the majority of them probably had similarly above median grades.

For the combo score, do you know if its holistic or it's literally like "here's the score that corresponds to your GPA and here is the score from your casenote, let's add them together and see who has the highest...."

So like let's say you barely missed the cut-off. Does that give you a better chance than someone with a 3.5?

[meat tornado]

From what I know, of the current 3Ls on DLJ, the people who graded on had a little over a 3.8. The people who had a combo score tended to be in the mid 3.5 - mid 3.6 range. Grades don't matter for the 1/3 (~12ish) students with the highest casenote scores, although I would imagine that the majority of them probably had similarly above median grades.

For the combo score, do you know if its holistic or it's literally like "here's the score that corresponds to your GPA and here is the score from your casenote, let's add them together and see who has the highest...."

So like let's say you barely missed the cut-off. Does that give you a better chance than someone with a 3.5?

I think it's adding them together. But you shouldn't be worrying about this right now. If your GPA is at the level where you think you might be in the top 10% of the class, just focus on doing that well again this semester. Besides, being on DLJ is AWFUL, and you can get a badass job without it.

[ticklemesilly]

From what I know, of the current 3Ls on DLJ, the people who graded on had a little over a 3.8. The people who had a combo score tended to be in the mid 3.5 - mid 3.6 range. Grades don't matter for the 1/3 (~12ish) students with the highest casenote scores, although I would imagine that the majority of them probably had similarly above median grades.

For the combo score, do you know if its holistic or it's literally like "here's the score that corresponds to your GPA and here is the score from your casenote, let's add them together and see who has the highest...."

So like let's say you barely missed the cut-off. Does that give you a better chance than someone with a 3.5?

I think it's adding them together. But you shouldn't be worrying about this right now. If your GPA is at the level where you think you might be in the top 10% of the class, just focus on doing that well again this semester. Besides, being on DLJ is AWFUL, and you can get a badass job without it.

Thanks!