New standards (i.e. lows) in academic integrity

Every student at Loyola Law School in LA will see all their grades go up 0.333 next month. Why??? To make their students "more attractive" in a competitive job market. And apparently this is not the first school to do so.

One day next month every student at Loyola Law School Los Angeles will awake to a higher grade point average.

But it’s not because they are all working harder.

The school is retroactively inflating its grades, tacking on 0.333 to every grade recorded in the last few years. The goal is to make its students look more attractive in a competitive job market.

In the last two years, at least 10 law schools have deliberately changed their grading systems to make them more lenient. These include law schools like New York University and Georgetown, as well as Golden Gate University and Tulane University, which just announced the change this month.

As the Times story notes, law firm recruiters do note these changes. But this is so typical of the Left that rewards intentions and politically correct "feelings" rather than fact or results so it is unsurprising.

And what about recent alumni who now have diminished GPAs as a result ?? Surely some of them are subject to the same job market as law firms have spent the last two years scaling back.

Reminds me of Spinal Tap -- "But, mine goes to eleven !!"