When liberals run stuff

When I was leaving college, I liked to kid that when employers ask my grade point average I would just tell them it's 3.

"Three point what?"

"Just three".

See if you round 2.7 it rounds to three.

Well, I should have gone to Loyola where I'd actually have a legitimate underachieving 3.0.

There when your school's students underachieve, they just change the grade point averages.............

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.

In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient. These include law schools like New York University and Georgetown, as well as Golden Gate University and Tulane University, which just announced the change this month. Some recruiters at law firms keep track of these changes and consider them when interviewing, and some do not.

Law schools seem to view higher grades as one way to rescue their students from the tough economic climate — and perhaps more to the point, to protect their own reputations and rankings. Once able to practically guarantee gainful employment to thousands of students every year, the schools are now fielding complaints from more and more unemployed graduates, frequently drowning in student debt.

It's a lot like soccer, where you can't distinguish the good teams from the collection of homeless dudes.

More......

Thanks reader Jeremy for the link.