Friday, January 30, 2004

Grades Finally Made Known

The final envelope containing my law school grades arrived yesterday. Not wanting to spoil my appetite, I opened the envelope after dinner. What I saw didn't make me jump for joy but at least it didn't cause me to regurgitate.

My grades are in no sense bad but they're not great either so they leave me with mixed feelings. I was a bit disappointed when I first saw them. I guess most law students feel the same way because of all the effort they put into law school and ante-law school academic experiences predict that those sort of efforts are rewarded with mostly A's and the anomalous B or two. My own experiences were that I could get slightly better grades at undergrad than I have gotten in law school with about a quarter or so of the effort I put into law school. So I put in somewhere around four times the work and I get lesser grades. That's both frustrating and disappointing.

But I understand that's the nature of law school, especially at Southwestern where they strongly enforce a mean GPA of 2.3. With that understanding, I can't be overly disappointed with my grades.

For a better discussion on grades, go here.

For my grades, go here.

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