Credit for Courses: Grade Curve
The faculty has adopted an official grade curve for the school. The official curve is sufficiently flexible to allow members of the faculty to reward students appropriately for their performance and to call attention to those students in apparent need of assistance. The adopted policy also provides for a teacher's ability to deviate from the official grade curve upon documented showing of an appropriate reason to do so.The Official Grade Curve (revised as of September 21, 2004) is:
| Letter Grade | Percentage |
| A | 5-10% |
| A- | 5-15% |
| B+ | 10-20% |
| B | 20-30% |
| B- | 10-25% |
| C+ | 10-25% |
| C | 5-20% |
| C- | 0-10% |
| D | 0-10% |
| F | 0-5% |
The curve applies to all courses with an enrollment of 25 or more, with the exception of Trial Practice I, Trial Practice II, ChildLaw Trial Practice, the Business Law Center Clinic & Seminar, the Child & Family Law Clinic, the Community Law Center Clinic, and the Elderlaw Clinic.
In courses of 25 or more students and containing both J.D. and graduate (M.J. and LL.M.) students, the following rules will apply: (1) If 25% or more of the total students are graduate students, the grade curve will apply to the J.D. students only. (Teachers can grade all students together, and then separate out the J.D. students for purposes of applying the grade curve.) (2) If fewer than 25% of the total students are graduate students, the grade curve will apply to the entire class.
