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Last year they posted on a Monday and sent out an email at 1:30pm. Decent chance we have to wait until Monday this year too.
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boooooooooGoldie wrote:Last year they posted on a Monday and sent out an email at 1:30pm. Decent chance we have to wait until Monday this year too.
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My parents are asking about what they should wear for commencement/other activities:
suit and tie?
suit jacket no tie?
no suit jacket?
suit and tie?
suit jacket no tie?
no suit jacket?
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All of those would feel formal. The median is nice summer dress / a step below business casual.nothingtosee wrote:My parents are asking about what they should wear for commencement/other activities:
suit and tie?
suit jacket no tie?
no suit jacket?
There will always be a clustering of suits in the audience, but they definitely feel out of place and very warm.
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3.96 GPA, cum laude.
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Missed cum laude with a 3.58
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Also missed with a 3.590.jingosaur wrote:Missed cum laude with a 3.58
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These are good data points to have but not terribly surprising — apparently someone missed cum laude with 3.61 last year.malleus discentium wrote:Also missed with a 3.590.jingosaur wrote:Missed cum laude with a 3.58
This is a bit more surprising, because someone got magna with a 3.93 last year. So the cutoffs do vary a bit year by year, which I kind of figured they would (given that it's top 10%, not any particular GPA).Goldie wrote:3.96 GPA, cum laude.
I think we can safely say that the magna cutoff is usually somewhere in the ballpark of 3.95, but some years it's above that and some years it's below. I think we can safely say that the cum laude cutoff is in the vicinity of 3.6, but in at least some years it's a bit above that, and it also stands to reason that it probably varies from year to year.
I wonder if it's now going to be standard practice to release 3L grades the Monday before commencement instead of the Thursday or Friday of the week before commencement. That's what they've done the past two years, but I don't know why or whether it will be consistent going forward.
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3.66 GPA, cum laude.
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I had about a minute of elation after seeing that I got the grades I needed to hit 3.96, but then I got the email telling me I only got cum laude.tomwatts wrote:This is a bit more surprising, because someone got magna with a 3.93 last year. So the cutoffs do vary a bit year by year, which I kind of figured they would (given that it's top 10%, not any particular GPA).Goldie wrote:3.96 GPA, cum laude.
I think we can safely say that the magna cutoff is usually somewhere in the ballpark of 3.95, but some years it's above that and some years it's below.
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Agreed.TripTrip wrote:All of those would feel formal. The median is nice summer dress / a step below business casual.nothingtosee wrote:My parents are asking about what they should wear for commencement/other activities:
suit and tie?
suit jacket no tie?
no suit jacket?
There will always be a clustering of suits in the audience, but they definitely feel out of place and very warm.
For women, the norm is a nice sundress or blouse / skirt (like what you would wear to an outdoor, daytime summer wedding).
For men, the norm is basically business casual -- slacks and a collared shirt, jacket and tie optional but not out of place.
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How is it possible that grades aren't yet posted for a class with 3Ls in it? (I'm a 2L.) Don't they have to be in to calculate latin honors?
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meisme23 wrote:How is it possible that grades aren't yet posted for a class with 3Ls in it? (I'm a 2L.) Don't they have to be in to calculate latin honors?
The grading scheme is a lie
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This is normal. Apparently professors can hand in grades for only part of the class and not the rest of it, so they can grade only the 3Ls but not the 2Ls and then hand in 2L grades later.meisme23 wrote:How is it possible that grades aren't yet posted for a class with 3Ls in it? (I'm a 2L.) Don't they have to be in to calculate latin honors?
If it's a class large enough that the curve is recommended, I'm not sure exactly what happens, but they do have some wiggle room within the recommended grade distribution (i.e., if their distribution is close to but not exactly the same as the recommended distribution, no one cares). So even if their grades end up a little out of whack because they graded people at different times, they can still be fair to everyone in the class and it ends up being okay.
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Does anyone know how to change the name of your HLS email?
Right now it's XXX@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Can you change the XXX part?
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Right now it's XXX@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Can you change the XXX part?
Thank you!
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I can verify that this is possible if you have a good reason. I contacted IT (presumably this is the current incarnation and the Registrar. The Registrar needs to give approval and IT actually makes the change.alpinespring wrote:Does anyone know how to change the name of your HLS email?
Right now it's XXX@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Can you change the XXX part?
Thank you!
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I did the same thing, probably for similar reasons that tomwatts had his changed. I just emailed IT and it was painless.tomwatts wrote:I can verify that this is possible if you have a good reason. I contacted IT (presumably this is the current incarnation and the Registrar. The Registrar needs to give approval and IT actually makes the change.alpinespring wrote:Does anyone know how to change the name of your HLS email?
Right now it's XXX@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Can you change the XXX part?
Thank you!
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Having a similar issue but was told it was unlikely to be fixed before September bc we are currently in a "grey area" until we start in the fall. If they misspelled it, though, they'll fix it, it's more like if they used the wrong version or something they want to waitnubcs wrote:I did the same thing, probably for similar reasons that tomwatts had his changed. I just emailed IT and it was painless.tomwatts wrote:I can verify that this is possible if you have a good reason. I contacted IT (presumably this is the current incarnation and the Registrar. The Registrar needs to give approval and IT actually makes the change.alpinespring wrote:Does anyone know how to change the name of your HLS email?
Right now it's XXX@jd20.law.harvard.edu
Can you change the XXX part?
Thank you!
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Where my upper-level class grades at?!?
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yeah I dunno. That lisa burns email from a couple of days ago said that the deadline was June 1, so maybe they'll all be in later today?
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Are 1l elective courses and the international elective included in the grades that were supposed to be in tomorrow or do 1l's only get grades back before the required courses if they took an elective course with 2l's and 3l's in them?
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