In 2005, the
Law
School adopted a new grading system, designed to make the grading system easier for students and employers to understand, and to make UW Law School students' transcripts more internally consistent. The old system (a 65 to 95 numerical grading system), which the
Law
School used for many years, will be phased out as students who began law school under the old system graduate. Effective with the class that entered law school in the fall of 2005, most law school courses will be graded utilizing letter grades ranging from A+ to F. In addition, under the new system, clinical courses will be graded on a four-cell grading system of S+, S, S-, and U. Legal writing courses will be graded using letter grades on the same basis as other courses. Law reviews and moot court programs will continue to show on the transcript as "S." Click on the links below for detailed information about the new and old grading systems.
