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Law Practice

Dec. 13, 2008

USC's Law School Tweaks Grading System

The faculty at USC's Gould School of Law approved an adjustment to the grading scale on Thursday that will raise the average grade point average of the first-year class, and all future incoming students, from 3.2 to 3.3.

LOS ANGELES - The faculty at USC's Gould School of Law approved an adjustment to the grading scale on Thursday that will raise the average grade point average of the first-year class, and all future incoming students, from 3.2 to 3.3.

Law School Dean Robert Rasmussen proposed the change when he discovered USC's curve was lower than the one used by the law schools at UCLA and Vanderbilt University, which are both considered comparable schools.

Unlike recent gradi...

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