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Post by jingosaur » Thu May 18, 2017 12:08 pm

nothingtosee wrote:3L grades today?
Nah

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Post by Goldie » Fri May 19, 2017 3:52 pm

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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Post by nothingtosee » Fri May 19, 2017 4:10 pm

Goldie 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.
booooooooo

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Post by nothingtosee » Sat May 20, 2017 11:15 pm

My parents are asking about what they should wear for commencement/other activities:

suit and tie?
suit jacket no tie?
no suit jacket?

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Post by TripTrip » Sat May 20, 2017 11:41 pm

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?
All of those would feel formal. The median is nice summer dress / a step below business casual.

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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Post by Goldie » Mon May 22, 2017 1:27 pm

3.96 GPA, cum laude.

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Post by jingosaur » Mon May 22, 2017 1:30 pm

Missed cum laude with a 3.58

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Post by malleus discentium » Mon May 22, 2017 1:55 pm

jingosaur wrote:Missed cum laude with a 3.58
Also missed with a 3.590.

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Post by tomwatts » Mon May 22, 2017 2:34 pm

malleus discentium wrote:
jingosaur wrote:Missed cum laude with a 3.58
Also missed with a 3.590.
These are good data points to have but not terribly surprising — apparently someone missed cum laude with 3.61 last year.
Goldie wrote:3.96 GPA, cum laude.
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).

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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Post by flyingboy » Mon May 22, 2017 5:17 pm

3.66 GPA, cum laude.

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Post by Goldie » Mon May 22, 2017 8:02 pm

tomwatts wrote:
Goldie wrote:3.96 GPA, cum laude.
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).

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 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. :cry:

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Post by despina » Tue May 23, 2017 4:54 pm

TripTrip wrote:
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?
All of those would feel formal. The median is nice summer dress / a step below business casual.

There will always be a clustering of suits in the audience, but they definitely feel out of place and very warm.
Agreed.

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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Post by meisme23 » Thu May 25, 2017 8:07 am

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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Post by nothingtosee » Thu May 25, 2017 12:26 pm

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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Post by tomwatts » Thu May 25, 2017 12:58 pm

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?
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.

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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Post by alpinespring » Fri May 26, 2017 2:38 am

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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Post by tomwatts » Fri May 26, 2017 8:35 am

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!
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.

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Post by nubcs » Sun May 28, 2017 7:59 am

tomwatts wrote:
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!
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.
I did the same thing, probably for similar reasons that tomwatts had his changed. I just emailed IT and it was painless.

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Post by eck456 » Wed May 31, 2017 9:58 am

nubcs wrote:
tomwatts wrote:
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!
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.
I did the same thing, probably for similar reasons that tomwatts had his changed. I just emailed IT and it was painless.
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 wait

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Post by marthagraham » Thu Jun 01, 2017 6:51 pm

Where my upper-level class grades at?!?

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Post by August Wilson » Fri Jun 02, 2017 10:42 am

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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Post by cdotson2 » Fri Jun 02, 2017 2:30 pm

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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