Rankings

18 Feb 2019

Five U.S. News Rankings Failures

By Kyle McEntee, executive director of Law School Transparency [http://www.lawschooltransparency.com/]. Originally published on Above the Law [https://abovethelaw.com/] in 2016. Reposted with permission. In this post, I examine five U.S. News rankings failures. I consider the methodology and underlying rankings theory from the perspective of a student who features job prospects prominently in his application and enrollment decisions. Considering the near universal support for prioritizing job o

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01 Jun 2018

Composite 2019 USNWR and 2018 ATL Rankings

Composite RankingSchoolUSNWR RankingATL RankingAverage Ranking 1 University of Chicago41 2.5 2 (tie) Stanford 2 5 3.5 2 (tie) Harvard 3 4 3.5 4 Yale 1 7 4 5 University of Virginia 9 2 5.5 6 University of Pennsylvania7 6 6.5 7 Duke 11 3 7 8 University of Michigan 8 8 8 9Columbia University 5 13 9 10 (tie) University of California - Berkeley9 11 10 10 (tie) NYU 6 14 10 12 Northwestern11 10 10.5 13 Cornell 13 9 11 14 Vanderbilt17 12 14.5 15 (tie) University of Texas 15 15 15 15 (tie) Georgetown

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21 Mar 2018

Law Schools Ranked by Acceptance Rate

1 Yale University (CT) — 8% 2 Stanford University (CA) — 10% 3 Harvard University (MA) — 16% 4 University of Pennsylvania — 18% 5 University of Virginia — 18% 6 Columbia University (NY) — 20% 7 University of Chicago (IL) — 21% 8 University of Michigan--Ann Arbor — 22% 9 Cornell University (NY) — 22% 10 University of California--Berkeley — 23% 11 Duke University (NC) — 23% 12 Northwestern University (Pritzker) (IL) — 24% 13 University of Southern California (Gould) — 24% 14 University of Texas--A

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21 Mar 2018

Law School Rankings Visualized

Just for fun! (note we had a former law student do the asigning of law schools to Game of Thrones characters. Please send all angry emails to that person).

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19 Mar 2018

Raw Scores for 2019 USNWR Top 50 Law Schools

RankingScoreSchool 1 100Yale University 99 2 98Stanford University 97 3 96 Harvard University 4 95University of Chicago 94 93 592Columbia University 6 91 New York University 90 7 89University of Pennsylvania 88 8 87University of Michigan - Ann Arbor 86 9 85University of California - Berkeley | University of Virginia 11 84Duke University | Northwestern University 83 82 13 81Cornell University 80 79 14 78Georgetown University 77 15 76University of Texas - Austin 16 75University of California - Lo

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18 Mar 2018

Raw Scores for USNWR Top 50 Law Schools

*Raw Score* 1 Yale University, 100 2 Stanford University, 98 3 Harvard University, 96 4 University of Chicago, 95 5 Columbia University, 92 6 New York University, 91 7 University of Pennsylvania, 89 8 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor, 87 9 University of California—Berkeley, 85 9 University of Virginia, 85 11 Duke University, 84 11 Northwestern University, 84 13 Cornell University, 81 14 Georgetown University, 78 15 University of Texas—Austin, 76 16 University of California—Los

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14 Mar 2018

Ranking the Top 50 Law Schools Relative to their Central University Rankings

Note: University of Richmond and Washington & Lee are excluded in these rankings because they are classified as "National Liberal Arts Colleges" rather than National Universities by US News and World Report. SchoolUSNWR Law School RankingUSNWR National University RankingDifference 1 George Mason University 41 140 99 2Arizona State University 27 115 88 3 University of Alabama 27 110 83 3University of Arizona 41 124 83 5Temple University 47 115 68 6Indiana University Bloomington 32 90 58 7Univers

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13 Mar 2018

2019 USNWR Rankings (2018 Release) Are Here! (Now updated #1-#144)

1 Yale University 2 Stanford University 3 Harvard University 4 University of Chicago 5 Columbia University 6 New York University 7 University of Pennsylvania 8 University of Michigan—Ann Arbor 9 University of California—Berkeley (+3) 9 University of Virginia (-1) 11 Duke University (-1) 11 Northwestern University (-1) 13 Cornell University 14 Georgetown University (+1) 15 University of Texas—Austin (-1) 16 University of California—Los Angeles (-1) 17 Vanderbilt University 18 Washington Universit

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12 Mar 2018

Spivey Consulting March Madness

We're hosting a March Madness Bracket Challenge and the winner will get a call for advice on how to do everything right :) (disclaimer: everything in law admissions right, not anything else). Come join us! Spivey Madness [http://games.espn.com/tournament-challenge-bracket/2018/en/group?redirect=tcmen%3A%2F%2Fx-callback-url%2FshowGroup%3FgroupID%3D2357976&ex_cid=tcmen2018_email&groupID=2357976&inviteuser=e0YyMjg5NjZGLTcyQTAtNDlCOC1BODk2LTZGNzJBMDQ5QjgzM30%3D]

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21 Feb 2018

USNWR Rankings Are Coming*

*in Mid-March Join the rankings prediction competition here: https://www.lawschool.life/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=646 [https://www.lawschool.life/forums/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=646]

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