<p>are any law schools known to have grade inflation? or do all law schools give out low grades?</p>
<p>back in the day, you got what you earned.</p>
<p>I don't know if this counts as 'grade inflation' per se, but Yale Law grades all first-term classes on a pass/fail basis, and all upper-division classes in a honors/pass/low-pass/fail basis (with low-pass and failing grades rarely given out). Furthermore, Yale Law does not track class rank nor does it base law review spots on grades.</p>
<p>This was the most recent data I could find on-line. The description of each law school gives you an idea of the the distribution of grades. (BTW, Boalt (Berkeley) has a fail/pass/honors type grading system too. )</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bcgsearch.com/bcgguide.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.bcgsearch.com/bcgguide.pdf</a></p>
<p>I've heard (most of this is hearsay) that there is a lot of variation. Our first semester, we are scaled to a 3.1 - mandatory curve (mean, not median) for each class. It goes up after that, but that's still fairly low.</p>
<p>UCDavis apparently has a mandatory scale of 20% As, 60% Bs, Cs, and Ds, and 20% failing. (So said by a 1L there.)</p>
<p>I've heard that some law schools grade very differently: it can be advantageous for some people to have a really strict curve, so that employers can easily distinguish the top students; however, some top schools often employ a generous curve. </p>
<p>I'm not sure what difference it makes to a hiring manager, so long as class rank is present as well (or some variation thereof, such as top 10%, top 20%, etc).</p>
<p>Boalt doesn't compute class rank. (I don't believe Yale does, either.)</p>