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Category Archives: US News Rankings
How the New Law School Rankings Should Affect Your Plans
Unless you’ve been skipping my articles (in which case, you probably won’t be reading this one, either), the new US News and World Report law school rankings came out last week. I’ve already given you my reactions to the law school rankings.
Now you have to just ask yourself one question: “How should I use this data in my decision, punk?” Say it in a Clint Eastwood accent for the proper effect.
Many of you are about to put down a seat deposit and finalize your decision on which law school to attend. That’s a huge decision in your life. It’s going to determine your proximate experience over the next three years, and it will have ramifications on the rest of your life (including the possibility of finding your significant other).
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Mar 21, 2012 - 6:22 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school rankings, us news & world report, us news rankings
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A Closer Look at the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings
As I’m sure you are aware, the 2013 US News & World Report law school rankings are out. And thus starts the celebrating of 1Ls who picked an up-and-comer, the head shaking of 1Ls who picked Illinois, and the hand wringing of those of you who thought you knew where you were attending next year. The US News & World Report law school rankings can throw a wrench into that decision.
Two quick notes before I start my evaluation.
First, the law school rankings aren’t the end-all/be-all of where you should go to law school. Use them as a guide. Recognize what they are – a reflection of a reflection. They use a formula to incorporate, among other things, perceived prestige of the institution. That doesn’t mean that you’ll fit in and learn more at a higher ranked school.
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Mar 15, 2012 - 6:45 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school rankings, LSAT, us news & world report, us news rankings
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Rank Should Still Play a Role in Finding Your Best Law School
What’s the best law school? Most of you would respond, “Oh, that’s easy. Let’s just check US News and World Report.” You’d check it, and you’d find that Yale Law School is now and forever at the Wintergarden Theater. I mean, the best law school. You might also check Cooley’s rankings and find that Harvard Law School is ranked as the best law school, but not many people go by them.
And this creates a question — why are the USNWR rankings treated as gospel, while the Cooley rankings are, at times, derided? It could be that Cooley has placed itself as the second best law school in the country, outdoing traditional powerhouses like Columbia, Yale and Stanford (and Chicago — I’d never forget you, Chicago!). That seems a blatant conflict of interest.
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Sep 21, 2011 - 11:16 am - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school admissions, law school advice, law schools, most strongly supported, us news rankings
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University of Illinois Law School in Hot Water (Again)
Illinois is a troubled state. In July, former Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich was convicted of corruption for selling Barack Obama’s vacated senate seat. He will be the fourth Illinois governor in 35 years to go to prison. The fourth. And that doesn’t count the plethora of other politicians who brushed up against the law without being imprisoned.
So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a surprise to an Illinois-jaded public that the University of Illinois Law School is dealing with its share of negative publicity, as well. The Chicago Tribune reports that the school is conducting an internal investigation into whether the school inflated LSAT test scores and GPA’s under Dean Paul Pless.
If this sounds familiar to you, there’s good reason.
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Sep 16, 2011 - 4:46 pm - By Jodi Triplett
Tags: law school, law school news, LSAT, lsat news, lsat scores, us news rankings
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Villanova Scandal Shows LSAT Scores Matter to Schools, Too
There’s a lot of buzz going on right now about Villanova’s Law School. Diverse Education reports that “Villanova’s average LSAT scores were padded by two to three points between 2005 and 2009…The median GPA was raised by up to 0.16 points.”
While the law school didn’t lose its ABA accreditation, it certainly could have. Instead, the bar association issued a public censure that the law school must display on its web site for two years. Not exactly great for the law school’s image.
As a student you’re probably interested in a high LSAT score to get into the best law school possible. But why would a law school care enough about its average LSAT scores to lie about it and run the risk of losing its accreditation?
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Aug 26, 2011 - 1:23 pm - By Jodi Triplett
Tags: law school, law school rankings, LSAT, lsat scores, most strongly supported, us news rankings
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Guess What, Stanford? You Can Never be the Best
Guess what? The rankings still sort of suck.
If the US News & World Report rankings didn’t already seem problematic enough, a few weeks ago Bill Henderson of Indiana University came to some conclusions that are a bit annoying, although not that surprising. Henderson is known for studying the rankings, and making models of the rankings to play with. Using these models, he was able to yet again show how these rankings are sometimes based on some crappy measures. Getting back to that in a second.
US News Law School Rankings: Eh, Can’t Really do Anything About Them
Way back in February, the ABA (American Bar Association) decided it was going to investigate the US News rankings of law schools with the hope, it seems, of finding out if they are at all helpful for prospective law students and law schools in general.
The result, as reported earlier today by Law.com, appears to be a resounding “Eh.”
US News: Law School Demand Rising with Tuition
US News and World Report, of all things, has a piece today that essentially brings the hammer down on people applying to law school.
Down with Starvation, Except When it’s US News
Our long national nightmare may soon be over.
The National Law Journal reported on Monday that SALT (not just a garden-variety spice, or a Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty, or an anagram of LSAT, but the Society of American Law Teachers) has recommended that law schools stop submitting LSAT information of incoming students to US News and World Report magazine (in a sense, “starving” the US News of information).
US News Law School Rankings: the 2010 Rankings are Out
I managed to sprain/break my ankle last week while lightly jogging to my car. I’ve been claiming I fell on a curb, but really, it was just a slight incline (hey, it was dark!). I then fainted, like a lady … Read Entire Article…
Apr 20, 2010 - 12:50 pm - By Contributing Writer
Tags: Current Events, law school, LSAT, Miscellaneous, News, rankings
Tags: Current Events, law school, LSAT, Miscellaneous, News, rankings