Posted Class Rankings?

[LitDoc]

This is something I never looked into -- didn't care much -- but I am just a little curious now: Does UT have posted/published class rankings? That is, are we going to be ranked 1,2,3...436 -- or do they break it into blocks, like top 10%,25%,50%...?

Anyone know?

[Felsen]

http://www.bcgsearch.com/crc/book2005/bcg_guide_2005.pdf

UT starts on page 120.

Top 25%: 3.66 2L  3.53 3L
Top-50%: 3.36 2L  3.30 3L

How the Best Are Separated from Rest:518
Order of the Coif: 10% 3.71 GPA 47 graduates
Summa cum laude: 0.5% 4.05 GPA 2 graduates
Magna cum laude: 05% 3.85 GPA 21 graduates

[Felsen]

So those are approximate numbers.  Since UT uses a curve and has enough students, those numbers probably hold true from year to year.

UT itself may not give out rank by percentages till you graduate (Laude/Cum Laude/Magna Cum Laude), but references like these will probably be used by employers to figure them out for the interview process.  Or they may just have recruited enough from a school to have their own GPA cut-offs per school.  They may not know that top 10% is a 3.71 this year; but they do know that whenever they start interviewing people with 3.65 and below they don't select nearly as many for callbacks as those above a 3.75.

[margee]

baff

[Felsen]

baff

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BAFF

I didn't know you were such a non-racist soccer enthusiast, Margee.

[margee]

baff

http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/BAFF

I didn't know you were such a non-racist soccer enthusiast, Margee.

 

[LitDoc]

So...from what I'm seeing, then, we're left to guess for ourselves where we stand, roughly, based on our GPA?

Is there a GPA cut-off for Law Review -- that is, can you get onto LR straight from grades (without writing on)? And if so, where is that cut-off?

[margee]

there is a grade cut-off.  you do have to write on, even if you have the grades, but it seems that it's mostly just a formality (at least, according to my tour guide)

don't know what the cut-off is.

[LitDoc]

Crap. I was hoping to at least have a shot at not doing the write-on thing. I've heard it's a royal pain.

[Felsen]

Crap. I was hoping to at least have a shot at not doing the write-on thing. I've heard it's a royal pain.

If you get in on grades, it is probably just a formality to make sure you don't absolutely suck at writing.  I wonder how much effort Law Review really consumes.  Those people do have to take care of getting the review all the way through to publication.