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Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:18 pm
by Mr. Matlock
My bad doyleoil! I forgot you were a pool guy. Here.... this one's all yours! Enjoy!!

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Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:21 pm
by doyleoil
Mr. Matlock wrote:My bad doyleoil! I forgot you were a pool guy. Here.... this one's all yours!
too skinny - another stephanie rice (or 2)

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Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:22 pm
by snotrocket
doyleoil wrote:wow - for an athlete she's right up there with:

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This has to be some sort of record for time elapsed from 0 to SWIMSUIT PICS.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:23 pm
by snotrocket
doyleoil wrote:small schools with nerds get hammered in these rankings
In all fairness to those schools -- it probably says as much about the nerds as it does about them.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:32 pm
by 98234872348
I laughed because Western New England was where I took my LSAT...

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:36 pm
by Helmholtz
Scantily clad women!!

IBTL

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:45 pm
by rondemarino
Mr. Matlock wrote:
doyleoil wrote:it's been said before, possibly even tonight, but TTIWWOP
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God I'm in love with this woman!
Who is that?

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:46 pm
by Helmholtz
rondemarino wrote:
Mr. Matlock wrote:
doyleoil wrote:it's been said before, possibly even tonight, but TTIWWOP
celebritysweating.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/allison-stokke-firestart.jpg

God I'm in love with this woman!
Who is that?

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:47 pm
by lawlover829
Helmholtz wrote:My list of the top 14 most desirable schools (not necessarily in this order):

Yale
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
NYU
Chicago
Berkeley
Penn
Michigan
Virginia
Northwestern
Duke
Cornell
Georgetown
hahaha +1

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:48 pm
by biggamejames
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Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:49 pm
by rondemarino
Helmholtz wrote:
rondemarino wrote:
Mr. Matlock wrote:
doyleoil wrote:it's been said before, possibly even tonight, but TTIWWOP
celebritysweating.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/allison-stokke-firestart.jpg

God I'm in love with this woman!
Who is that?
Thanks. I'm clearly an idiot.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:49 pm
by Mr. Matlock
Helmholtz wrote:Scantily clad women!!

IBTL
Sorry Helmholtz... take your pick my good man:

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Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:52 pm
by Mr. Matlock
rondemarino wrote:
Mr. Matlock wrote:
doyleoil wrote:it's been said before, possibly even tonight, but TTIWWOP
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God I'm in love with this woman!
Who is that?
That my friend is the beautiful Allison Stokke. I could look at her all day... :oops:

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:54 pm
by Helmholtz
Mr. Matlock wrote:
Helmholtz wrote:Scantily clad women!!

IBTL
Sorry Helmholtz... take your pick my good man:

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Certainly not the one on the right. I don't like all the skin she's revealing with her hands out there. What a trollop!

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:55 pm
by doyleoil
apparently this girl plays basketball (or used to?) for uga:

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Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:56 pm
by 98234872348
rondemarino wrote:Who is that?
Well, if wikipedia can be trusted... http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Stokke :?:

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:02 pm
by snotrocket
hmlee wrote:This is.... interesting. I commend you for trying to develop such a method of ranking schools, but I have a question about your methodology. Specifically, in the grant area. It seems a bit flawed to me. Granted I'm no statistician, but I wonder how you account for these things:

1. Size of endowment (or other school resources) affecting ability to provide large grants to woo accepted students.

2. Possible preference of giving more people smaller grants rather than fewer people larger grants.

3. School perceived necessity of grants in the first place. Take Yale, for example. I doubt they give many full tuition (or even half tuition) scholarships. Then again, do they really have to? They are ranked the #1 school in the country and have been for some time. While there are people who turn down Yale - usually for one of the other top 5 schools, and sometimes because of money - I doubt that Yale feels as though it needs to give out such grants to accepteds to make them want to come. Most of us, if given the opportunity to attend Yale, would do so in a heartbeat. Regardless of money.
Well, keep in mind that giving lots of large grants counts against a school in this ranking. In other words, a large proportion of students receiving > 1/2 tuition grants implies that the school has to "buy" candidates in order to get commitments, at least compared with a school that ranks the same on the other factors but gives out a lot less money.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:31 pm
by hmlee
snotrocket wrote:
hmlee wrote:This is.... interesting. I commend you for trying to develop such a method of ranking schools, but I have a question about your methodology. Specifically, in the grant area. It seems a bit flawed to me. Granted I'm no statistician, but I wonder how you account for these things:

1. Size of endowment (or other school resources) affecting ability to provide large grants to woo accepted students.

2. Possible preference of giving more people smaller grants rather than fewer people larger grants.

3. School perceived necessity of grants in the first place. Take Yale, for example. I doubt they give many full tuition (or even half tuition) scholarships. Then again, do they really have to? They are ranked the #1 school in the country and have been for some time. While there are people who turn down Yale - usually for one of the other top 5 schools, and sometimes because of money - I doubt that Yale feels as though it needs to give out such grants to accepteds to make them want to come. Most of us, if given the opportunity to attend Yale, would do so in a heartbeat. Regardless of money.
Well, keep in mind that giving lots of large grants counts against a school in this ranking. In other words, a large proportion of students receiving > 1/2 tuition grants implies that the school has to "buy" candidates in order to get commitments, at least compared with a school that ranks the same on the other factors but gives out a lot less money.
Ah, I missed the "negated" part of that one...

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:42 pm
by Splitt3r
Harvard doesn't give merit money, so how did they get such a low score on the grants thing? Is it because they're particularly generous due to their large endowment? Doesn't really seem fair to downgrade someone because they are more responsible about helping out people who can't afford the university than other schools. It also seems to be biased somewhat against private schools, as they as a rule are more expensive and thus are more likely to have people attending who qualify for need-based aid.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:42 pm
by grobbelski
I always knew I liked this guy Lieter. Great theory, and nice work snot rocket. Go Florida.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 10:51 pm
by Unemployed
snotrocket wrote:Unlike Leiter, I used median LSAT and just multiplied by FTE to account for the fact that small schools need less "draw" to land a small number of high scoring candidates compared to a school that enrolls a larger class with the same median.
This is the fatal flaw.

Even if Yale's median is 172, and Cooley's is 145 (I am pulling these #'s out of thin air), Cooley will win the "median LSAT" battle because 172x700 < 145x3000.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:07 pm
by Skadden Stairs
Doylie, that aussie is not that cute.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:09 pm
by doyleoil
lex talionis wrote:Doylie, that aussie is not that cute.
you are wrong - please see my swimming thread for proof

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:14 pm
by Skadden Stairs
doyleoil wrote:
lex talionis wrote:Doylie, that aussie is not that cute.
you are wrong - please see my swimming thread for proof
no thanks.

And if I'm fucking a swimmer, it's going to be Ryan Lochte.

Re: Most Desirable Law Schools 2008

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 11:19 pm
by doyleoil
lex talionis wrote:
doyleoil wrote:
lex talionis wrote:Doylie, that aussie is not that cute.
you are wrong - please see my swimming thread for proof
no thanks.

And if I'm fucking a swimmer, it's going to be Ryan Lochte.
just for you, doll:

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