• Michael Kamps is suing Baylor University for their admissions practices, arguing that the school is making it more difficult for older students gain admission because it does not factor in grade inflation when assessing undergraduate applicants' GPAs.
• Kamps proposed that Baylor’s law school and other graduate schools place more emphasis on other academic factors, and that they re-implement a system similar to the school’s former “Baylor Index,” a method which calculates a single score using GPA and LSAT figures, as opposed to the relatively new system which considers each score separately.
• Stuart Rojstaczer, a higher education analyst, says that Kamps’ complaint may or may not be valid, and that his proposal is unlikely to catch hold, adding “ [Law schools] tend not to make adjustments for schools that have low GPAs today and for applicants that perhaps graduated many years ago, when GPAs on a national average were lower.”

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A 3.2 grade point average is not what it used to be.

That's what a Baylor University law school applicant, Michael Kamps, is arguing in a lawsuit against the university, which alleges that by neglecting to account for grade inflation when evaluating applicants’ undergraduate G.P.A.s, the admissions committee did not give Kamps the same chance at admission as it did younger applicants. …