Why is it that the T14 is the 'elite'?

[Hank Chill]

Why can't it be the T13 or the T15 that is considered the best? When did the law school gods designate the T14 as the top schools?

[mr_toad]

I was going to reply "who cares?". Then I saw where you're going to school.

[094320]

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[Grizz]

HTH

[Pricer]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

[dextermorgan]

It's referred to as the T14 because they're schools that have been in the T10 consistently for some amount of time. For practical purposes, the fact that UCLA is 15 and Gtown is 14 should not be important to you when selecting schools, nor do I think that the T14 is the "elite", but a useful short-term.

Translation: use the search box.

[Renzo]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

Pretty much this. All of them have at least once been in the T10, no non-T14 school has ever been in the top 10, and for like the last 15 years no school has fallen out of or climbed into the T14.

[mr_toad]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

Pretty much this. All of them have at least once been in the T10, no non-T14 school has ever been in the top 10, and for like the last 15 years no school has fallen out of or climbed into the T14.

Is this true? I thought Texas has been in the top 10 in the past... maybe it was a different rankings system?

[Grizz]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

Pretty much this. All of them have at least once been in the T10, no non-T14 school has ever been in the top 10, and for like the last 15 years no school has fallen out of or climbed into the T14.

Is this true? I thought Texas has been in the top 10 in the past... maybe it was a different rankings system?

Better question:

does it matter?

[Aberzombie1892]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

Pretty much this. All of them have at least once been in the T10, no non-T14 school has ever been in the top 10, and for like the last 15 years no school has fallen out of or climbed into the T14.

Texas has been in the top 10. I'm not disagreeing with the direction this thread is going, however.

[mr_toad]

Sure, agreed it doesn't matter much. Factual query receives subjective slapdown. I love TLS!

[Hank Chill]

Sure, agreed it doesn't matter much. Factual query receives subjective slapdown. I love TLS!

It doesn't matter. I was wondering if 14 was just an arbitrary number someone started using one day or if there is a reason behind it.

[Renzo]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

Pretty much this. All of them have at least once been in the T10, no non-T14 school has ever been in the top 10, and for like the last 15 years no school has fallen out of or climbed into the T14.

Texas has been in the top 10.

I don't want to start a huge war, but I don't think so. They were #11 in 1987, but never cracked the ten-spot.

See: http://www.prelawhandbook.com/law_schoo ... _1987_1999 and

http://www.prelawhandbook.com/law_schoo ... 00_present

[Pricer]

Ha I love that the OP goes to Texas, which is #15.

I am not picking on UT, because that is my top choice, but why does T14 even matter? Outside of the legal world, no one has any idea what the T14 is. The difference between T14 and T15 is nothing.

[cmraider]

I don't want to start a huge war, but I don't think so. They were #11 in 1987, but never cracked the ten-spot.

See: http://www.prelawhandbook.com/law_schoo ... _1987_1999 and

http://www.prelawhandbook.com/law_schoo ... 00_present

THAT'S ONE STEP TOO FAR, BUDDY!!!!!

[Stringer Bell]

Outside of the legal world, no one has any idea what the T14 is. The difference between T14 and T15 is nothing.

Shouldn't this be the only "world" that matters?

[Hank Chill]

T-14 have been the same 14 schools every year, except maybe UCLA was in there the first year or something. Use the search function, you'll find thousands of threads on this. Or just open up basically any forum and you will see several threads about it.

Pretty much this. All of them have at least once been in the T10, no non-T14 school has ever been in the top 10, and for like the last 15 years no school has fallen out of or climbed into the T14.

Texas has been in the top 10.

I don't want to start a huge war, but I don't think so. They were #11 in 1987, but never cracked the ten-spot.

See: http://www.prelawhandbook.com/law_schoo ... _1987_1999 and

http://www.prelawhandbook.com/law_schoo ... 00_present

[MrPapagiorgio]

Ha I love that the OP goes to Texas, which is #15.

I'd be willing to bet my scholarship on the fact that this is the reason why OP posed this question.

[Pricer]

Ha I love that the OP goes to Texas, which is #15.

I'd be willing to bet my scholarship on the fact that this is the reason why OP posed this question.

Agreed.

[mr_toad]

Ha I love that the OP goes to Texas, which is #15.

I'd be willing to bet my scholarship on the fact that this is the reason why OP posed this question.

His willingness to consider the T13 was a red herring of sorts. But our society is so 'ten-based' in many ways that it's surprising to have 14 of anything be a 'group'. Confusion is inevitable.

[gbpackerbacker]

As an analogy, we'll say that the the T14 is the OU in this video and texas is texas.

-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1MpHG5x6q0

Texas cannot handle eliteness.

[kublaikahn]

As an analogy, we'll say that the the T14 is the OU in this video and texas is texas.

-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1MpHG5x6q0

Texas cannot handle eliteness.

If you told Texas they were elite, they would probably be offended. It's kind of like telling Brett Favre he's a ladies man. (That was for you packerbacker).

[jwrash]

I'd be willing to bet my scholarship on the fact that this is the reason why OP posed this question.

Brag.

[retake]

Don't worry. When you go to law school, you can change around the distinction for "elite" however much you want. Go to Stanford? Well I guess only the T3 are the true elites. Chicago? Well, maybe T5 is where there's a real drop off. USC? Well I heard T18 is the new T14 in trendier circles.

[Bildungsroman]

A bunch of Georgetown students thought it up as a "fuck you" to their friends at UCLA.