Most Desirable Law Schools 2008 Forum

[Mr. Matlock]

My bad doyleoil! I forgot you were a pool guy. Here.... this one's all yours! Enjoy!!

[doyleoil]

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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[snotrocket]

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.

[snotrocket]

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.

[98234872348]

I laughed because Western New England was where I took my LSAT...

[Helmholtz]

Scantily clad women!!

IBTL

[rondemarino]

it's been said before, possibly even tonight, but TTIWWOP

God I'm in love with this woman!

Who is that?

[Helmholtz]

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?

[lawlover829]

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

[biggamejames]

[rondemarino]

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.

[Mr. Matlock]

Scantily clad women!!

IBTL

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

[Mr. Matlock]

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...

[Helmholtz]

Scantily clad women!!

IBTL

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

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!

[doyleoil]

apparently this girl plays basketball (or used to?) for uga:

[98234872348]

Who is that?

Well, if wikipedia can be trusted... http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_Stokke

[snotrocket]

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.

[hmlee]

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...

[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.

[grobbelski]

I always knew I liked this guy Lieter. Great theory, and nice work snot rocket. Go Florida.

[Unemployed]

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.

[Skadden Stairs]

Doylie, that aussie is not that cute.

[doyleoil]

Doylie, that aussie is not that cute.

you are wrong - please see my swimming thread for proof

[Skadden Stairs]

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.

[doyleoil]

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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