It depends in part on the local culture. Law schools are graded on curves.
Some are competitive in spirit, e.g., I've heards this about Georgetwon.
Ohio State Law, where I went, wasn't. My co-clerk says that the (more highly
rated) U of Illinois wasn't either. I don't hear reports of that sort from
the top 10 schools. It's sort of the ones in between that generate
nastiness. --jks
>
>At 10:23 AM 3/20/01 -0500, you wrote:
>>At issue is the ranking of managers, professionals and sometimes
>>lower-level employees from best to worst, or grading them on a bell curve,
>>and then using that ranking to help determine pay and sometimes whether to
>>fire someone. ...
>>"Companies are playing their version of `Survivor,' " said David Thomas, a
>>professor at the Harvard Business School.
>
>Grading on a curve sets up competition amongst workers in a big way. This
>encourages behavior like that sometimes seen among pre-Meds: some will
>steal books from the library to sabotage their competitors, because there
>are only a limited number of A grades (and slots at the Medical schools).
>
>Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
>
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