As many of you know, we have spent the past several months developing a tool for prospective law school applicants to create their own customized law school rankings. My Rank is available now and is free for anyone to use (no sign-up required). For fun, I asked Mike to create his own rankings (and then had to explain to him like he was a 12-year-old how to use our wildly easy platform!).
Below are Mike's top 50, and then a brief explanation from Mike on how we got here.
- Anna Hicks
Here are his top 50:
- University of Chicago
- Northwestern University
- Duke University
- Yale University
- Stanford University
- University of Michigan
- Washington University in St. Louis
- Cornell University
- University of Illinois
- University of California—Berkeley
- Vanderbilt University
- University of Texas at Austin
- University of Virginia
- Washington and Lee University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Boston University
- University of Notre Dame
- University of Minnesota
- Pennsylvania State—Dickinson Law
- Harvard University
- University of California—Los Angeles
- William and Mary Law School
- Columbia University
- Wake Forest University
- University of Southern California
- New York University
- University of Iowa
- Indiana University—Bloomington
- University of California—Irvine
- George Mason University
- Ohio State University
- Pennsylvania State—Penn State Law
- University of Arizona
- University of California—Davis
- Georgetown University
- University of Wisconsin
- Emory University
- University of Georgia
- University of Florida
- Seton Hall University
- Northeastern University
- Boston College
- University of Alabama
- Florida State University
- University of Washington
- Villanova University
- University of Colorado
- Temple University
- University of Richmond
- Arizona State University
Just an FYI, my category weights likely look a lot different from most applicants'. For example, I know how incredibly flawed both USNWR rankings and reporting mechanisms are, so I devalued those a good deal, but I would understand why an applicant would not – they matter to employers. That is just one of many examples. But I think that is the point – everyone's rankings are individualized for them. I was actually surprised and fascinated by these results. I hope you are too by your own! –Mike
