Jun 22, 2010 at 2:50 PM
According to the New York Times, law schools across the country are giving their students some stimulus in the form of inflated grades:
One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average. But it’s not because they are all working harder. The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.
Read the rest of the article here.
As Mark J. Perry points out, this is similar to "Spinal Tap" inflation:
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This is so ridiculous: Wouldn't employers be smart enough to realize that the grades are all inflated and take that into consideration when hiring?
Then again, they obviously haven't stopped acceped fiat currency, so maybe the school's plan will work...
No, employers will realize it when they find out they hired twits.
Forget Law School. Time to go to Clown School... like I've always wanted.