Suggestions to incoming 2014, re: Grade Deflation

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<p>Here is the full comment from the Dean as excerpted by Ramblin.</p>

<p>[A</a> Tougher ‘A’ at Princeton Has Students on Edge - The Choice Blog - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://thechoice.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/princeton/?apage=4#comment-39243]A”>A Tougher 'A' at Princeton Has Students on Edge - The New York Times)</p>

<p>[Comment #88 from NYT article]</p>

<p>"I am the Dean of Admissions at Yale Law School (and also a Princeton graduate).</p>

<p>While I cannot speak for other professions, Princeton’s grade policy should not impact graduates’ law school admissions. The Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) — which compiles the numerical data on each law school applicant — provides, in addition to a student’s cumulative GPA, the percentile rank of that student’s GPA as compared with other applicants to law school from that same institution within the last three years. In other words, a law school admissions officer can (or should) see the difference between, say, a 3.7 at West Point (which would place that student in the upper 90th percentile) and a 3.7 at a school that is prestigious but has a lot of grade inflation (I won’t name names but a 3.7 can be as low as the 60th percentile at some very elite schools).</p>

<p>While it may be true that some law schools may be more interested in absolute GPAs in order to manipulate their institutions’ “rankings” according to popular publications, I would say that this is less true of the top law schools, which are more interested in getting the top students from a variety of schools. To the extent that a law school a) actually reads an entire application and b) can see how a student compares to the pool of applicants from that same school, Princeton’s grade inflation policy should not make much of a difference in its law school admission rates.</p>

<p>Asha Rangappa"</p>

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<p>Perhaps we should ask the Dean to send a personal note to German_Car.</p>

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<p>Why the hell does the Dean of Yale Law, a Princeton alum, hate us Princetonians so much?</p>

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<p>7% lower than Yale and 3% lower than Harvard? </p>

<p>And w t f, Stanford loves Yale (they historically have put a higher emphasis on GPA than most other law schools).</p>

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<p>[Yale</a> University Bulletin | Yale Law School 2009?2010 | Law School Students](<a href=“http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/law/law-school-students.html]Yale”>http://www.yale.edu/bulletin/html/law/law-school-students.html)</p>

<p>Last year, Yale Law’s class size is about 190 and 82 Yalw UG entered, which is roughly 50% .</p>

<p>Harvard Law’s class size is about 580 and about 290 Harvard UG entered, that is again about 50%. </p>

<p>At Columbia Law, about 50% student body are from Columbia UG.
Stanford Law has similar statistics. </p>

<p>Top Private graduate schools strongly prefer their undergrads.</p>

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<p>^Having attended one of the law schools you cite, I can assure you that you’re incorrect.</p>

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<p>german_car, you moron - the “institutions represented” means institutions represented by all Yale JD candidates (603). 82/603 are from Yale. Were you too stupid to see that a class of 190 can’t represent 185 undergrad institutions if 50% come from Yale? Geez you’re an idiot.</p>

<p>To the mod: if you delete this post for flaming, you got to be kidding. German_car’s been ■■■■■■■■ Princeton’s board for months with no punishment.</p>

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<p>I prefer Japanese or Korean automobile, because I find german car highly unreliable.</p>

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<p>sherpa with the zing!</p>