We have 3 terms in a year that are 14 weeks long with 2 week breaks between each term. Week 15 is exam week. If you are on academic probation (AP) or a 2nd term student your loans are not distributed until grades are posted and the registrar can see that you are in good academic standing to release your money. The registrar also posts the grades.

Grades are due monday, week 4 of the succeeding term, the registrar (who is a lazy chimp) has until the end of the week to post them. The AP and 2nd term students even if their grades are released their $$ isn’t released until week 6, which is almost half way through the term since its only a 14 week semester. Did I also mention if you drop below a 1.0 you are kicked out of school?

So in a nutshell if some unfortunate bastard has failed out, he’s in class for a month before this is made apparent, tuition and rent have most likely already been paid, hundreds already spent on books, (which coincidentally are not refundable to the bookstore anymore) & then boom peace out. It’s all a sick cycle to keep Cooley paid.

I have been blessed thus far to stay above the yellow line.

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I’m not sure what the exact schedule is for the profs at my school, but grades usually trickle in about a month after exams end.

The online accounts that we check to find our grades are run by the university, not the law school, and the university’s grades are due way before ours, so for now we have “NR” (= no record?) where each grade should be. This results, every semester, in an email from the university saying I (like every other law student) am not making satisfactory progress towards my degree, preceded by an email from the law school telling me to ignore the email the university is about to send. Every. Semester.

I was a lot more obsessive about it at the end of last year, now I’m just checking every other day or so (mainly to see if I did well enough to apply for clerkships..)

Last year I refreshed the gradeboard CONSTANTLY, but this year I’m only checking 1-2x a day; I refuse to look at them until they’re all in anyway (in the fall, my highest grades came in first and each grade went down a wee bit, which made each subsequent check that bit more depressing; in the spring, my lowest grades came in first and I freaked out, convinced my GPA had plunged, and spent a week or so panicking about my future until the rest of the grades came in. Turns out, my spring GPA was .01 higher than my fall GPA. :-P So now I’m just putting off finding out as long as possible).

Last year I was spoiled because I had on-the-ball profs who posted early, but so far this year, none of mine are out yet.