We all know the economy is down and the job market is saturated. Everyone is having trouble finding jobs–even recent law school graduates. It doesn’t matter whether you graduated from Harvard or a fourth tier law school; the real world is no picnic for law school graduates like it once was. This is the time when people should be helping each other out and lending a hand whenever possible.

Well, it seems as though some law schools are doing just that. The NY Times reports that some law schools (such as Loyola, USC, and Golden Gate) are adding an extra .333 onto their students GPA’s in order to help them be more competitive when searching for a job. Some firms are actually trying to keep track of the schools doing this and will take it into consideration when conducting interviews, but other firms just can’t keep up with the research. As a result, some students will benefit from firms which lack of resources to keep track of such grade inflation.

Read the full article at The New York Times