Change is in the air at Harvard Law School. Following in Yale Law School’s footsteps, the top school is converting the longtime grading system from A,B,C,D and F to honors, pass, low pass, and fail.

According to officials at Harvard, the changes are intended to discourage students from focusing so much on specific grades, and pay more attention to learning. But hold up…tell that to the C student who will be thrown into the “low pass” category with the D’s. I don’t know about you but when a class is really hard, a C is worth celebrating because it’s much better than a D, right? Not anymore.

Robbing the C of its pride, who knows if this system will be an instigator in more academic learning or just something to push the C’s over the edge.

A’s are obviously the “honor” students and B equals pass, which in my opinion, doesn’t sound nearly as cool as a B! Pass, shmass! I want my B.

President of the Harvard Law School Bar Association, Daniel Thies, said he is “cautiously optimistic” about the new grading system, but has questions…

“We need more information right now. We are blindsided by it,” Thies said.

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