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

[jpSartre]

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

this actually isnt not funny

[Bless]

I wasTHISCLOSE to making a thread on this, but decided to use the search button. I was going to ask almost verbatim as to how OP did.

[MrPapagiorgio]

I wasTHISCLOSE to making a thread on this, but decided to use the search button. I was going to ask almost verbatim as to how OP did.

Is this serious, or are you insinuating that OP should have used the search button?

[FiveSermon]

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?

OP is mad because his school Texas isn't in the T14. Too bad.

[lolschool2011]

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?

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TL;DR, what it boils down to is that it's all just marketing.

[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?

OP is mad because his school Texas isn't in the T14. Too bad.

No. The rankings are bullshit. Fourteen is just a weird number of things to group together. When we group things it tends to be in multiples of five. It would make more sense for the T5 or the T10 to be the most commonly referenced 'elite group'. A group of fourteen is odd and uncommon. I was wondering if it was an arbitrary number or if there was some greater reasoning behind it.

[FiveSermon]

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?

OP is mad because his school Texas isn't in the T14. Too bad.

No. The rankings are bullshit. Fourteen is just a weird number of things to group together. When we group things it tends to be in multiples of five. It would make more sense for the T5 or the T10 to be the most commonly referenced 'elite group'. A group of fourteen is odd and uncommon. I was wondering if it was an arbitrary number or if there was some greater reasoning behind it.

It's not arbitrary. Read the thread mang.

[Alex-Trof]

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?

OP is mad because his school Texas isn't in the T14. Too bad.

No. The rankings are bullshit. Fourteen is just a weird number of things to group together. When we group things it tends to be in multiples of five. It would make more sense for the T5 or the T10 to be the most commonly referenced 'elite group'. A group of fourteen is odd and uncommon. I was wondering if it was an arbitrary number or if there was some greater reasoning behind it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_school ... the_top_14

The link explains it.

[paulinaporizkova]

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.

hahaha this is so effing true. i've seen people going to michigan telling people on TLS that they got into a T9

[09042014]

You guys get your cause and effect wrong.

The schools in the t14 were elite before USNews. T14 became a think because they were elite.

[FiveSermon]

You guys get your cause and effect wrong.

The schools in the t14 were elite before USNews. T14 became a think because they were elite.

Georgetown is elite?

[patrickd139]

HTH

[paulinaporizkova]

You guys get your cause and effect wrong.

The schools in the t14 were elite before USNews. T14 became a think because they were elite.

Georgetown is elite?

oh SNAP

[09042014]

You guys get your cause and effect wrong.

The schools in the t14 were elite before USNews. T14 became a think because they were elite.

Georgetown is elite?

Slowly losing it's brand because it's too large of a school, but it used to be pretty elite. If they halved their student number they could probably make a play for top 10.

[FiveSermon]

You guys get your cause and effect wrong.

The schools in the t14 were elite before USNews. T14 became a think because they were elite.

Georgetown is elite?

Slowly losing it's brand because it's too large of a school, but it used to be pretty elite. If they halved their student number they could probably make a play for top 10.

Cornell is elite?

[flcath]

It's a term coined in 2001 to designate the 14 schools that had nearly exclusively retained (switched around within, but dominated) the top 14 spots in the USNews rankings.

The schools were elite long before the term existed, though it doesn't seem like any delineation was made b/t GULC and Texas.

It's been obfuscated in recent years by the fact that they are no longer the 14 best schools in America, which would seem to have been a necessary requirement (Vandy is now significantly superior to GULC).

[patrickd139]

It's a term coined in 2001 to designate the 14 schools that had nearly exclusively retained (switched around within, but dominated) the top 14 spots in the USNews rankings.

You realize this is incorrect, yes?

[flcath]

It's a term coined in 2001 to designate the 14 schools that had nearly exclusively retained (switched around within, but dominated) the top 14 spots in the USNews rankings.

You realize this is incorrect, yes?

How so? If I recall, UCLA broke into the top 14 once back in the 90s.

[patrickd139]

It's a term coined in 2001 to designate the 14 schools that had nearly exclusively retained (switched around within, but dominated) the top 14 spots in the USNews rankings.

You realize this is incorrect, yes?

How so? If I recall, UCLA broke into the top 14 once back in the 90s.

The schools which currently make up the top 14 are the only schools to have broken into the top 10 (at one point or another) rankings since their inception. This was already covered somewhere earlier ITT, but I'm too lazy to find and quote it.

[Bless]

I wasTHISCLOSE to making a thread on this, but decided to use the search button. I was going to ask almost verbatim as to how OP did.

Is this serious, or are you insinuating that OP should have used the search button?

Dead serious. I came across this thread after using the search button.


And I learned that I rightfully predicted that "14" was a bullshit number. I love how pretentious some of the TLS'ers are about the whole T14 thing.

[flcath]

It's a term coined in 2001 to designate the 14 schools that had nearly exclusively retained (switched around within, but dominated) the top 14 spots in the USNews rankings.

You realize this is incorrect, yes?

How so? If I recall, UCLA broke into the top 14 once back in the 90s.

The schools which currently make up the top 14 are the only schools to have broken into the top 10 (at one point or another) rankings since their inception. This was already covered somewhere earlier ITT, but I'm too lazy to find and quote it.

Wikipedia says otherwise. If you can find a better source, you are welcome to.

Also, the plain meaning of the term "top 14" is, well, the top 14 schools.

[paulinaporizkova]

I wasTHISCLOSE to making a thread on this, but decided to use the search button. I was going to ask almost verbatim as to how OP did.

Is this serious, or are you insinuating that OP should have used the search button?

Dead serious. I came across this thread after using the search button.


And I learned that I rightfully predicted that "14" was a bullshit number. I love how pretentious some of the TLS'ers are about the whole T14 thing.

uuuuuuhhh, i did not gather that from this thread at all.

[flcath]

I wasTHISCLOSE to making a thread on this, but decided to use the search button. I was going to ask almost verbatim as to how OP did.

Is this serious, or are you insinuating that OP should have used the search button?

Dead serious. I came across this thread after using the search button.


And I learned that I rightfully predicted that "14" was a bullshit number. I love how pretentious some of the TLS'ers are about the whole T14 thing.

uuuuuuhhh, i did not gather that from this thread at all.

I actually think that 14 was a very meaningful number when the term was coined.

Now 13 (or, in the other direction, 17 or 18) would be more meaningful.

[Bless]

uuuuuuhhh, i did not gather that from this thread at all.

Well, I'll clarify what I meant. There is no significant difference in going to the 14th best and 15th best law school.

[paulinaporizkova]

I actually think that 14 was a very meaningful number when the term was coined.

Now 13 (or, in the other direction, 17 or 18) would be more meaningful.

I guess we've determined Georgetown is officially a POS then?