The Great Waiting continues. Much weeping and gnashing of teeth accompanies each visit to Cardinal Station, our school’s site for students to pay bills, register, and receive grades. 23 days since our last exam and 29 since our first, there still no grades.
The only grade I have so far is from Lawyering Skills and that class ended in April with our Appellate Brief. Dr. Bombay wondered last week whether other schools run on similar timelines. So, do you? Are you still waiting for Spring semester grades? When you were in school did you wait long? Did you even care how long it took to get grades back? Were you ever prevented from getting a job or internship by delays in receiving grades.
So, I’m still waiting on Property, Contracts, and Torts (the other Torts section received their grades). I’m told the deadline for professors to turn grades in is June 9th, a full month after the exam period ended. Even then, a friend says the Registrar’s office tells him that professors don’t really pay attention to the deadline, opting to just turn grades in when they get to it.
It can’t take that long to grade exams. Can it? The school’s website says that average first year class size 70. The entering evening division class is half the size of the day division class so I would imagine evening classes students that number is lower - my largest class was 46 (ish). So if we assume evening sections average 50 students (on the most extreme high end), a professor could review 3.5 exams per business day and be done with exams and grades in three weeks.
Frustration. I really want to say sincerely that I understand my professors’ predicament - they have demands on their time, they’d like a break, it’s a long semester, they have families, etc. While that’s all true, students wait for grades for any number of reasons, not the least of which is receiving an objcetive measure of how they actually did (no small issue considering we’re graded on a curve). It’s not like we’re Hart from The Paper Chase hanging out at the beach just waiting to tear up our grades because of some epiphany that they don’t matter. Aside from being a disappointing end to an otherwise great movie, we actually do obsess about such things and many of us actually do need them in a timely fashion.
A-fricking-men.
3 weeks since our last exam at AU and 2/5 grades back.
My last exam was 5/8 and the normal deadline for grades to be submitted was this past Thursday (5/29). However, our Torts professor was given a week’s extension because he’s teaching two intersession classes and the two Spring semester class he taught both had exams on the last day. He said he’d have ours done by Monday, so I should have all my grades by Monday afternoon.
Happy waiting!
My evening class had our last exam May 8. Grades were due in by May 31, but both teachers were so late that we were waiting until the end of the first week of June for our grades. In fact, our first summer class teacher came in laughing the first night because one of his students from spring had angrily confronted him about grades. I also have a 3L interning at my work and he was still waiting the second week in June. Must be a law professor thing.
I think you’re right. At least grades were due at your school in the same month as your last exam! If I remember correctly we ended up waiting 33 days total. I supposed you just get used to it… ugh.
Get used to it - every year I was there it seemed to take longer for grades to be published. The school unfortunately has no good enforcement mechanism to get them in on time. The only semester you’ll get them when you’re supposed to is the last one.