Class Rank Information

| Spring 2008 Graduating Students Class Rank | Spring 2008 Upper Division Students |
Class Rank First Year Students | The Grade Equivalency Ranking System

NOTE: First Year Students are not ranked until the end of their first full year. They will only have rank listed at the end of spring semester.

Effective spring 2004 Lewis & Clark Law faculty created this ranking procedure.

Class Level Defined:
Day and evening students are ranked together. The class levels are First Year (1L), Upper Division (2L) and Graduating Class (3L). The class level is based on the level of completion of the juris doctor program. The Graduating Class (3L) will be assigned to the students who have applied for graduation for the current academic year without regard to how many years they have been enrolled. The class level First Year (1L) will be assigned to students who started the first year of law school in the fall of the current academic year. The class level Upper Division (2L) will be assigned to anyone who is not in the First Year class (1L) or the Graduating class (3L). For the purpose of class level identification the current academic year begins fall semester each year.

Ranking Procedure:
All enrolled students are ranked each fall and spring semester in the class level that applies to them, except for first year students who are not ranked their first year. Each semester ranking includes all grades and incompletes received by the date listed on the percentage chart for each class. Make up grades received after that date will be included in the next semester ranking.

Only the top 25% of each class level is individually ranked. This rank is based on the cumulative g.p.a.

Access the student category listed above to receive a data sheet showing what g.p.a. would qualify a person to be in the top 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25%, 33 1/3% and 50% of each class level. This sheet has both the cumulative g.p.a. and the yearly g.p.a. listed for both the 3L and 2L classes. A data sheet is prepared each semester so that all students can identify their rank by percentage. This data sheet is also publicly available to employers and others who request it. Rank is not listed on individual transcripts, however, students may request their individual rank at the Registrar's office.