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Addressing a standing room only lecture hall, Kagan prefaced the meeting by saying that “whether we did the right thing or the wrong thing generally” in changing the grading system was not up for debate. But the dean’s initial comments did not...
Though one of the goals of the simplified grading scheme was to reduce student anxiety, some students said that their peers would turn instead to extracurricular organizations in an effort to distinguish themselves. This, they said, would ultimately defeat the administration’s desire to allow students the time...
Another student criticized Kagan’s assertion that the pass/fail grading system would have no detrimental effects on the job search as a “very unclear blanket assurance.”
Last spring, Stanford changed its grading scheme to a four-tiered system similar to Harvard’s, a move that followed Yale’s decades-old pass/fail scheme.
Relatively few second-year students attended the meeting—in part because many were interviewing for summer jobs—even though Kagan said she felt most uncertain about the grading system they will use. According to over 100 feedback e-mails solicited by the Law School?...