Who are you, and what have you done with BigZuck?BigZuck wrote: So it would be:
1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. Michigan
6. Berkeley
6. Virginia
8. Cornell
8. Duke
10. Penn
10. GULC
Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings Forum
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Just a guy having a little fun ITT, nothing wrong with that!rpupkin wrote:Who are you, and what have you done with BigZuck?BigZuck wrote: So it would be:
1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. Michigan
6. Berkeley
6. Virginia
8. Cornell
8. Duke
10. Penn
10. GULC
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I thought you were serious there for a minute lol. I tend to view private schools as being better education wise in terms of quality but most private schools are smaller than their public counterparts(at UG, clearly Harvard and GULC have the population edge among elite law schools) and have alot less class options as a result. You need a lot of classes to keep places with 15-20,000 students running smoothly, not so with alot of these private schools(clearly there are exceptions) especially the LAC's. I personally would pick the public(again we're talking UG here because you said, "anything").BigZuck wrote:My problem with the top 10 above is that I have a hard time considering middling state schools being elite at anything. Drop Chicago and NYU from that list and bump up Penn (I know, also a middling state school but they had a good football program at one point at least) and Georgetown (located in DC which is the most prestigious city in the US and technically a law center which sounds pretty neat to me) then I could live with it.rpupkin wrote:No. I don't like the idea of polluting the top tier with regional schools. Frankly, the T14 should be slimmed down, not fattened up. I've long championed the idea of setting the "prestige" cutoff based on the T10 of the year 2000. That was the year that the rankings got the most attention and best response rates—everyone wanted to get the important "millennial" rankings correct. Here are the top 20 schools that year:Ferrisjso wrote:Shouldn't it be the T16 then to include UCLA and UT who both have made it into the T14 at least once?
1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. NYU
5. Columbia
6. Chicago
7. Michigan
8. Berkeley
8. Virginia
10. Cornell
10. Duke
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12. Northwestern
12. Penn
14. GULC
15. Texas
16. UCLA
17. USC
18. Vanderbilt
19. Minnesota
20. Washington and Lee
So it would be:
1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
5. Michigan
6. Berkeley
6. Virginia
8. Cornell
8. Duke
10. Penn
10. GULC
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Re: Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings
Well, not that these rankings mean much, but since someones apparently seen a leaked copy, it's likely going to appear any day now...
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Based on a combo of prestige and biglaw/clerkship placement:
1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. Chicago
6. NYU
7. Penn
8. Duke
9. Northwestern
10. Cornell
11. Virginia
12. Michigan
13. Berkeley
14. GULC
1. Yale
2. Harvard
3. Stanford
4. Columbia
5. Chicago
6. NYU
7. Penn
8. Duke
9. Northwestern
10. Cornell
11. Virginia
12. Michigan
13. Berkeley
14. GULC
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Re: Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings
WoahRigo wrote:Here you go
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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I made a separate thread just now since the link is buried in this thread.BruiseWillis wrote:WoahRigo wrote:Here you go
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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Hm, these don't exactly match the tips from page 1 of this thread. Mainly, I don't see a school up 6 spots into the top 20. Expected to see Berkeley fall hard, especially after last year's scandal.BruiseWillis wrote:WoahRigo wrote:Here you go
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
What's going on at W&L that jumped them up 12 spots into the top 30!?
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Re: Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings
They give each tip one piece of false information that way they can follow the leak to the original source and murder that person. RPumpkin.saf18hornet wrote:Hm, these don't exactly match the tips from page 1 of this thread. Mainly, I don't see a school up 6 spots into the top 20.BruiseWillis wrote:WoahRigo wrote:Here you go
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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Re: Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings
I was pretty inactive on TLS last year and missed this.saf18hornet wrote:Expected to see Berkeley fall hard, especially after last year's scandal.
What happened?
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Sex ScandalRigo wrote:I was pretty inactive on TLS last year and missed this.saf18hornet wrote:Expected to see Berkeley fall hard, especially after last year's scandal.
What happened?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/gra ... 404e7adf0d
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Ooo thank you. Yeah that ain't right.saf18hornet wrote: Sex Scandal
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Re: Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings
Their jobs numbers were pretty solid last year.saf18hornet wrote:Hm, these don't exactly match the tips from page 1 of this thread. Mainly, I don't see a school up 6 spots into the top 20. Expected to see Berkeley fall hard, especially after last year's scandal.BruiseWillis wrote:WoahRigo wrote:Here you go
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
What's going on at W&L that jumped them up 12 spots into the top 30!?
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HA!cavalier1138 wrote:Columbia raised their LSAT numbers this year so that their 25/50/75 are all 2 points higher than Chicago. Chicago still kept the GPA higher, but LSAT is weighted more, and since USNWR weights medians pretty heavily, there's a good chance Columbia will get to keep the number 4 spot to itself.xn3345 wrote:People seem to think Columbia over Chi. Anybody care to say why? Seems like Chi has higher/equal medians and clerkship numbers, esp. as of recently.
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(Didn't read the thread)FunandFriendship wrote:Posted a few days early:
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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Re: Just for fun-- Predictions: 2018 USN Law School Rankings
Wonder whatever happened to UC Irvine's lofty goal of breaching the top 20.FunandFriendship wrote:Posted a few days early:
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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IMO, the fact that they beat UCD and UCH is already a win.Stevie_Rave_On wrote:Wonder whatever happened to UC Irvine's lofty goal of breaching the top 20.FunandFriendship wrote:Posted a few days early:
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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for the amount of $ and brand names they were heaping into the school i really thought it would be doing a bit bettergoldenbear2020 wrote:IMO, the fact that they beat UCD and UCH is already a win.Stevie_Rave_On wrote:Wonder whatever happened to UC Irvine's lofty goal of breaching the top 20.FunandFriendship wrote:Posted a few days early:
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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Yeah. When someone said there was a surprising jump up from a Top 30 school, I truthfully thought it'd be UCI.candidlatke wrote:for the amount of $ and brand names they were heaping into the school i really thought it would be doing a bit bettergoldenbear2020 wrote:IMO, the fact that they beat UCD and UCH is already a win.Stevie_Rave_On wrote:Wonder whatever happened to UC Irvine's lofty goal of breaching the top 20.FunandFriendship wrote:Posted a few days early:
http://blog.spiveyconsulting.com/2017-u ... re-here-2/
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