Grade Delay Frustrates Students, Job Opportunities

Students line up outside the registrars office Jan. 26 to get printed copies of their mid-year grades.Blame it on the ‘Net.

A website outage at the end of finals week caused the delay in fall semester grades, according to the Office of the Registrar. Originally, first-semester grades were to be released on Thursday, Jan. 19; however, the internet outage extended the deadline for take-home exams by four days. The deadline for professors to submit grades was also moved from Jan. 13 to Jan. 17, with a standing three-day grace period before penalties were instituted.  When all the rescheduling was done, the revised date for posting fall semester grades was set for Jan. 24.

It’s unclear, however, if all staff were made aware of the revised date.

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Mock Trial Team dominates New York tournament

The Trial Ad Team brought home multiple pieces of hardware.The Trial Advocacy Team of Barristers’ Council has wrapped up its fall competitions with a 1st place victory at Fordham Law School’s inaugural Judge Paul Joseph Kelly, Jr. Invitational Trial Competition.

Students Michael Kawi, 3L, and Amanda Tuminelli, 2L ,went 5-0, defeating teams from Fordham, NYU, Miami, Cardozo and Temple during the Nov. 11-13 competition. Kawi won Best Closing argument for one side of the case while Amanda won Best Advocate in the final round. The team was coached by attorneys Tara Kelly and Marybeth Manfredo.

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Tasti D-lite Grand Opening draws a crowd

In case you missed it, there was free Tasti D-lite to be had this past Thursday between 1 and 2 pm. Tasti D-lite CEO Jim Amos, franchise partners Scott Hughes and Ben Tatum, and Law Center administrators Christina Farias and Linda Davidson were on hand for the festivities.

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Applications for admission drop 19%

Applications to join the Law Center fell sharply last year.The number of applications to join Georgetown Law dropped a steep 19% last year, according to an Admissions Department report provided to the Law Weekly. The drop represents a change from the recent trend of ever-growing law school applications. The decrease in applications this year is not unique to Georgetown, as many law schools faced such a decrease.

Still, Dean of Admissions Andrew Cornblatt wrote in the 2011 Entering Class Report that the size of the drop surprised him.

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New 1L class is a high-quality motley crew

Courtesy: C-SPAN. Dean Cornblatt is happy with the new class.The newly arrived Class of 2014 is the “most outstanding class in the Law Center’s history,” according to Dean of Admissions Andrew Cornblatt. In a report about the entering class provided to the Law Weekly, Cornblatt points to the new students’ grades, test scores, backgrounds and diversity to explain his enthusiasm.

“The story this year is our GPA,” Dean Cornblatt wrote at the start of the report. Indeed, despite-or because of-a 19% drop in the number of applications to join the Law Center, the university’s median GPA increased.

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