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LouderVol said:
how recent?
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It's been going on 8-10 years, I'd estimate, probably an unintended but logical effect of NCLB. I had an old bookmark somewhere of a story about how the profs at Ivy League schools were clashing with students over written work in some of the upper division and graduate courses. Apparently, the students were largely doing the minimum assignment length, without focusing on substance or method, and argued they should receive full credit (even if what they were writing was crap). The professors tried to make a stand against lowering standards, but the gist of the article was that standards were being lowered, even at the nation's most "elite" universities.

Then there's also the deal with the College Board's "Diversity Score" and the willingness with which Harvard and Yale were incorporating those into their admissions. I think the CB dropped that this year, though.
 
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GVF said:
I think she went to Nashville School of Law(formerly the YMCA Nashville Night School of Law). Not sure they have traditional accredidation.
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Maaaaan, I'm not sure "traditional accreditation" matters a damned bit anymore if UNC can keep their accreditation after that BB BS.
 
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RockyTop85 said:
Fwiw, I know several really good lawyers who went to night school at the Nashville School of Law.
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May be different now, but back in mid-80's when I took my LSAT, they weren't too far off the complete break with YMCA. It seemed to be a joke then if you went there, and I just deviated from Law School all together so I didn't put much research into it. (It wasn't my LSAT score. I was rather high in my group round). I used it as humor, but it wouldn't surprise me if they put out as good a law grad or better as some of the "pretigious" law schools.
 
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evillawyer said:
The Top 15 Universities with the Highest Average GPAs
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Not the GPA proof. The Bell curve proof. Either they are fluff schools and the academia is highly overrated, which for the dollars spent probably is anyway. Or, they are outrageously rigorous, and everyone fails at the same level of oops, and gets the same curve. It would otherwise be statistically impossible to have that many students tightly grouped. Even if they are all brilliant, they are not all exactly equally brilliant down to a + or - on an A. If that's the case, the students are not challenged enough.
 
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