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‎Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars: there's no discrepancy as was suggested

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‎Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars

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‎James Kent Scholars

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‎James Kent Scholars

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Absentminded: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars moved to Law School Honors

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Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars moved to Law School Honors

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 The Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar honors designation was established in [[1946]] in memory of Chief Justice [[Harlan Fiske Stone]], an alumnus of the law school as well as a former member of its faculty and dean of the school from [[1910]]-[[1924]].
-Stone Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "superior academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits with no grade lower than B- and an academic average for the year at or above 3.410.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref> This is a somewhat curious definition as the law school claims that students don't have GPAs.
+Stone Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "superior academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits with no grade lower than B- and an academic average for the year at or above 3.410.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref> The Law School calculates the GPA for this purpose internally. The Law School does not officially release any sort of numerical average.
 As a result of the law school's grading curve, Stone Scholar honors are generally awarded to 35 percent of the class (as low as 29 percent of 1Ls and as high as 45 percent of 3Ls).<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to cum laude honors.

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 Stone Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "superior academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits with no grade lower than B- and an academic average for the year at or above 3.410.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref> This is a somewhat curious definition as the law school claims that students don't have GPAs.
-As a result of the law school's grading curve, Stone Scholar honors are generally awarded to 10 percent of the class. This would make it roughly equivalent to magna cum laude honors.
+As a result of the law school's grading curve, Stone Scholar honors are generally awarded to 35 percent of the class (as low as 29 percent of 1Ls and as high as 45 percent of 3Ls).<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to cum laude honors.
 ==James Kent Scholars==
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 Kent Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "outstanding academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits and either a GPA over 3.80, or no grade lower than an A+, A, or A- save one, and that exception being no lower than a B, and, after putting aside the lowest grade, at least half of which are A+ or A.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref>
-Kent Scholar honors are generally awarded to the top 3 percent of each class. This would make it roughly equivalent to summa cum laude honors.
+Kent Scholar honors are generally awarded to the top 8 percent of each class (as low as 2 percent of 1Ls and as high as 11 percent of 3Ls).<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to magna cum laude honors.
 ==Other Honors==

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 Stone Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "superior academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits with no grade lower than B- and an academic average for the year at or above 3.410.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref> This is a somewhat curious definition as the law school claims that students don't have GPAs.
-As a result of the law school's grading curve, Stone Scholar honors are generally awarded to 35 percent of the class (as low as 29 percent of 1Ls and as high as 45 percent of 3Ls).<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to cum laude honors.
+As a result of the law school's grading curve, Stone Scholar honors are generally awarded to 10 percent of the class. This would make it roughly equivalent to magna cum laude honors.
 ==James Kent Scholars==

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 Kent Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "outstanding academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits and either a GPA over 3.80, or no grade lower than an A+, A, or A- save one, and that exception being no lower than a B, and, after putting aside the lowest grade, at least half of which are A+ or A.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref>
-Kent Scholar honors are generally awarded to the top 3 percent of each class.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to summa cum laude honors.
+Kent Scholar honors are generally awarded to the top 3 percent of each class. This would make it roughly equivalent to summa cum laude honors.
 ==Other Honors==

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 Kent Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "outstanding academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits and either a GPA over 3.80, or no grade lower than an A+, A, or A- save one, and that exception being no lower than a B, and, after putting aside the lowest grade, at least half of which are A+ or A.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref>
-Kent Scholar honors are generally awarded to the top 8 percent of each class (as low as 2 percent of 1Ls and as high as 11 percent of 3Ls).<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to magna cum laude honors.
+Kent Scholar honors are generally awarded to the top 3 percent of each class.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref> This would make it roughly equivalent to summa cum laude honors.
 ==Other Honors==

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-'''Law School Honors''' at [[Columbia Law School]] do not follow either of the two traditional methods of academic recognition at law schools around the country. Rather than grant latin honors (summa, magna, and cum laude) to the top 1, 11, and 41 percent of the graduating class, respectively, as at Harvard, or induct the top 10% of the graduating class into the [[w:Order of the Coif|Order of the Coif]] (i.e. [[Phi Beta Kappa]] for law students) as at NYU, Columbia instead bestows recognition in two grades unique to Columbia: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar honors, and James Kent Scholar honors. In addition, whereas traditional honors designations are granted in consideration of a cumulative academic record spanning three years, Columbia's honors are given at the end of each year for that year only. Thus it's possible to achieve honors in just one, or many years, and of different grades in different years.
+'''Law School Honors''' at [[Columbia Law School]] do not follow either of the two traditional methods of academic recognition at law schools around the country. Rather than grant [[Latin phrases#Latin honors|latin honors]] (summa, magna, and cum laude), as at Harvard, or induct the top 10% of the graduating class into the [[w:Order of the Coif|Order of the Coif]] (i.e. [[Phi Beta Kappa]] for law students), as at NYU, Columbia instead bestows recognition in two grades unique to Columbia: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar honors, and James Kent Scholar honors. In addition, whereas traditional honors designations are granted in consideration of a cumulative academic record spanning three years, Columbia's honors are given at the end of each year for that year only. Thus it's possible to achieve honors in just one, or many years, and of different grades in different years.
 ==Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars==
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 ==James Kent Scholars==
-The James Kent Scholar honors designation was established in [[1923]], named after the first Professor of Law on the Columbia faculty. Kent Scholar honors are significantly more difficult to achieve than Stone Scholar honors, and achieving them during the 1L year of the law school is considered a significant achievement.
+The James Kent Scholar honors designation was established in [[1923]], named for [[James Kent]], the first Professor of Law on the Columbia faculty. Kent Scholar honors are significantly more difficult to achieve than Stone Scholar honors, and achieving them during the 1L year of the law school is considered a significant achievement.
 Kent Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "outstanding academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits and either a GPA over 3.80, or no grade lower than an A+, A, or A- save one, and that exception being no lower than a B, and, after putting aside the lowest grade, at least half of which are A+ or A.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref>

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-'''Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar''' honors are a designation of academic recognition at [[Columbia Law School]]. The honors designation was established in [[1946]] in memory of Chief Justice [[Harlan Fiske Stone]], an alumnus of the law school as well as a former member of its faculty and dean of the school from [[1910]]-[[1924]].
+'''Law School Honors''' at [[Columbia Law School]] do not follow either of the two traditional methods of academic recognition at law schools around the country. Rather than grant latin honors (summa, magna, and cum laude) to the top 1, 11, and 41 percent of the graduating class, respectively, as at Harvard, or induct the top 10% of the graduating class into the [[w:Order of the Coif]] as at NYU, Columbia instead bestows recognition in two grades unique to Columbia: Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar honors, and James Kent Scholar honors. In addition, whereas traditional honors designations are granted in consideration of a cumulative academic record spanning three years, Columbia's honors are given at the end of each year for that year only. Thus it's possible to achieve honors in just one, or many years, and of different grades in different years.
-Stone Scholar honors are awarded each year in recognition of "superior academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits with no grade lower than B- and an academic average for the year at or above 3.410.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref> This is a somewhat curious definition as the law school claims that students don't have GPAs.
+==Harlan Fiske Stone Scholars==
-As a result of the law school's grading curve, Stone Scholar designation is generally awarded to 35 percent of the class (as low as 29 percent of 1Ls and as high as 45 percent of 3Ls).<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/careers/career_services/employers/Hiring_Informat/Grading_and_Hon Office of Career Services - Grading]</ref>
+Stone Scholar honors are awarded at the end of each year in recognition of "superior academic achievement" which is defined as having earned at least 15 graded law credits with no grade lower than B- and an academic average for the year at or above 3.410.<ref>[http://www.law.columbia.edu/academics/registrar/Acad_Recog Registration Services - Academic Recognition]</ref> This is a somewhat curious definition as the law school claims that students don't have GPAs.
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 [[Category:Law School Awards]]

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