2013 Rankings Forum

[stillwater]

how will this affect Cornell's nyc biglaw placement...?

Everyone is totally boned.

[JDizzle2015]

Anyone have more detailed data? The raw score data is definitely useful. Any data on medians and the assessment scores?

#1 Yale: 170-177 LSAT, 3.83-3.96 GPA -- 173 and 3.9 medians -- 91.8% employed after 9 months

#2 Stanford: 167-172 LSAT, 3.72-3.93 GPA -- 170 and 3.85 medians -- 97.1% employed after 9 months

#3 Harvard: 171-176 LSAT, 3.78-3.97 GPA -- 173 and 3.89 medians -- 94.6% employed after 9 months

#4 Columbia: 170-175 LSAT, 3.6-3.82 GPA -- 172 and 3.72 medians -- 96.5% employed after 9 months

#5 Chicago: 167-173 LSAT, 3.71-3.94 GPA -- 171 and 3.87 medians -- 97.9% employed after 9 months

#6 NYU: 170-174 LSAT, 3.57-3.85 GPA -- 172 and 3.71 medians -- 96.6% employed after 9 months

#7 Berkeley: 164-169 LSAT, 3.62-3.88 GPA -- 167 and 3.79 medians -- 93.6% employed after 9 months

#7 Penn: 166-171 LSAT, 3.58-3.93 GPA -- 170 and 3.86 medians -- 96% employed after 9 months

#7 Virginia: 165-171 LSAT, 3.49-3.94 GPA -- 170 and 3.86 medians -- 98.1% employed after 9 months

#10 Michigan: 167-170 LSAT, 3.59-3.87 GPA -- 169 and 3.76 medians -- 92.2% employed after 9 months

#11 Duke: 167-171 LSAT, 3.62-3.84 GPA -- 170 and 3.75 medians -- 94.8% employed after 9 months

#12 Northwestern: 165-171 LSAT, 3.35-3.85 GPA -- 170 and 3.8 medians -- 94% employed after 9 months

#13 Georgetown: 167-171 LSAT, 3.44-3.8 GPA -- 170 and 3.71 medians -- 96% employed after 9 months

#14 Cornell: 166-169 LSAT, 3.5-3.77 GPA -- 168 and 3.63 medians -- 96.9% employed after 9 months


Hope this helps

Quoted for future reference.

[TLS_noobie]

how will this affect Cornell's nyc biglaw placement...?

rad lulz in 3,2,1....

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[D. H2Oman]

how will this affect Cornell's nyc biglaw placement...?

By asking this question you've proven yourself too stupid to finish above median. So worry not my friend.

[allmodcons]

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[hellothisisme]

I guess people now have their answer about how Illinois' ranking will be affected by the scandal. Dropped 12 spots.

Yeah I bet a ton of firms in Illinois will refuse to hire their grads.

Oh I share your opinion that rankings don't mean anything. I was just stating the obvious.

[Bronck]

Request for detailed W&L info! Much thanks!

Score 68
Peer assessment score (out of 5) 3.3
Assessment score by lawyers/judges (out of 5) 3.9
GPA (25th-75th percentile) 3.5-3.8
Median undergraduate GPA for all program entrants 3.65
LSAT scores (25th-75th percentile) 159-165
Median LSAT score for all program entrants 164
Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation 90.2%

[reformed calvinist]

Cornell should relocate its law school to Manhattan, right next to its medical center on the upper east side.on the sick new tech campus on roosevelt island Instant rankings boost.

We'd be above NYU instantly.

They could probably shoehorn a law school in somewhere on that island. There's what, a few hundred students, a few dozen faculty. Put in some classrooms, an administrative office, and a library. BAM! Law school!

[Flash]

How are people surprised that Stanford is ahead of Harvard? Stanford is better than Harvard and it was ranked ahead of Harvard for like 8 years straight from the late 90s to mid 2000s.

[Chucky21]

how will this affect Cornell's nyc biglaw placement...?

By asking this question you've proven yourself too stupid to finish above median. So worry not my friend.

And by your response, you have proven yourself too stupid to recognize obvious sarcasm... my friend.

[freestallion]

Wow about Stanford > Harvard now

And how is it that only 91.8% are employed at Yale? Surprising...

That employment number is low because the people that go to Yale often go on to do other degrees seemingly more often than the other top schools. People pursuing another degree do not count as employed.

That makes sense, though I thought they would calculate that differently (like the number employed out of the number who WANT to be employed).

They've been trading the #2 spot for over a decade: http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... ?f=1&t=213.

Thanks! I did not know that.

[kaiser]

Holy shit the gap between T6 and below is Huge. NYU at 92, and tie for 7 at 87.

Columbia only 1 pt away from H.

So hopefully we can now do away with some of the silly "Is N closer to CC or is it closer to MVP?" threads.

[skers]

how will this affect Cornell's nyc biglaw placement...?

Everyone is totally boned.

Cornell's us news ranking was bad enough it even affected the latest nlj250 results. You should be super worried.

[wiseowl]

sixigan gonna be twelvigan in a year or so...peer and judge assessment scores cant prop up crappy metrics forever.

[travis9952]

Arizona State!!! One more reason for me to accept their offer.

[jsmith201]

George Mason, UNC, Wake Forest info please

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[moneybagsphd]

The fact that I actually care about these stupid rankings makes me depressed.

[180asBreath]

"#12 Northwestern: 165-171 LSAT, 3.35-3.85 GPA -- 170 and 3.8 medians -- 94% employed after 9 months"

If I had applied fairly early, there's no way I would've been held.

Oh well.

[20130312]

Holy shit the gap between T6 and below is Huge. NYU at 92, and tie for 7 at 87.

Columbia only 1 pt away from H.

So hopefully we can now do away with some of the silly "Is N closer to CC or is it closer to MVP?" threads.

No because, as mentioned previously, US News doesn't matter.

[Ded Precedent]

Who cares about the rankings man. We're all going to be fucking lawyers!

[thexfactor]

need some info on WUSTL

[annyong]

Wow about Stanford > Harvard now

And how is it that only 91.8% are employed at Yale? Surprising...

~8% of the class would only need to be ~16 people since their class is so small, glancing at employment stats from last years class 9 were seeking graduate degrees, 3 were "not seeking", and 4 were seeking jobs - so that would be 16, and out of that 16, only 4 would actually be looking for a job.

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