2013 Rankings Forum

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Gulac Law Concentration Center

[PDaddy]

...yawn... Times are not changing. This looks like one of those late-90's rankings. The top-20 looks the same as always...just musical chairs.

U-Washington is by far the big winner this year. Arizona St. improved by 14 spots, but UW made the most significant change. Top-20 is only a notch below T14. A lot of people don't know that U-Washington was #23 at one time. The significant thing about U-Washington being #20 is that it's in a very desirable major city with relatively low cost of living.
Their applications are going to skyrocket next year, and that could push them even higher...#17 or so. They have been increasingly getting more and more apps from top students.

[PDaddy]

Is it OK to reference Michigan's fall to 10 when I withdraw this week?

I hope you do.


Does anyone have access to the USNWR Law Firms Rank Schools section?

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... aw-firms/2

[johansantana21]

...yawn... Times are not changing. This looks like one of those late-90's rankings. The top-20 looks the same as always...just musical chairs.

U-Washington is by far the big winner this year. Arizona St. improved by 14 spots, but UW made the most significant change. Top-20 is only a notch below T14. A lot of people don't know that U-Washington was #23 at one time. The significant thing about U-Washington being #20 is that it's in a very desirable major city with relatively low cost of living.
Their applications are going to skyrocket next year, and that could push them even higher...#17 or so. They have been increasingly getting more and more apps from top students.

Lawl

[Jaeger]

...yawn... Times are not changing. This looks like one of those late-90's rankings. The top-20 looks the same as always...just musical chairs.

U-Washington is by far the big winner this year. Arizona St. improved by 14 spots, but UW made the most significant change. Top-20 is only a notch below T14. A lot of people don't know that U-Washington was #23 at one time. The significant thing about U-Washington being #20 is that it's in a very desirable major city with relatively low cost of living.
Their applications are going to skyrocket next year, and that could push them even higher...#17 or so. They have been increasingly getting more and more apps from top students.

Apps aren't weighted heavily enough for any of that nonsense to happen.

[Jaeger]

Is it OK to reference Michigan's fall to 10 when I withdraw this week?

I hope you do.


Does anyone have access to the USNWR Law Firms Rank Schools section?

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... aw-firms/2

Thanks, but found this.

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... aw-schools

[JusticeHarlan]

i love rankings day

I give this year a 167. No rankings-induced meltdown that involved a poster trying to get TLS into legal trouble because of anger over how his school was 'on the decline' and ended in a perma-ban, so hard to see it cracking the 170s. Curve is set to high. But the "we get it rad, no one takes it seriously" posts alternating with the "why did H fall below S, I thought their spending per student rates were the same?!" posts was pretty good.

[sunynp]

Columbia doesn't have a basketball team bro....

They'd need to start letting in a lot more URMs before that could happen.

Yes,Columbia has a basketball team. They even have a football team! They play in the sports league known as the ivy league.

[gdh]

After initial disappointment about the rankings, I've been reassured by this: Brady Hoke - "This is Michigan" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oja8RXz6wb8

[smokeylarue]

The Real T14:

1 Kentucky (61)
2 Syracuse (1)
3 Missouri (2)
4 North Carolina (1)
5 Michigan State
6 Kansas
7 Ohio State
8 Duke
9 Baylor
10 Florida State
11 Marquette
12 Murray State
13 Michigan
14 Wisconsin

Source: ESPN

So really, the true rankings are:

DM / YSH / CCN / BVP / NGC

[sangr]

how does the future look for

1.GW

2. Cornell

GW has risen in ranks over the past ten years, cornell fell 1 or 2 spots

[stillwater]

how does the future look for

1.GW

2. Cornell

GW has risen in ranks over the past ten years, cornell fell 1 or 2 spots

The apocalypse has struck. Cornell can never come back from this death knell. It will undoubtedly sink into obscurity, a la 'nova. Your best bet is to buy a rising stock, think IPO!, and that golden, flaming rocket, drunk on vainglory for the top spot, is Arizona State.

[jess]

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[drleather]

I swear, every year one of the Big Ten schools that is not Mich or NU makes a jump into the top 25 then drops the next year.

It is like they all take a turn.

Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Minnesota gets its turn this year.

Next year will probably go to Ohio State.

Minnesota has been in the top 25 for the last 25 years, or thereabouts.

[jess]

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[odetojefferson]

Was hoping UC Irvine would get ranked this year but still nope

Not until 2014 at the earliest.

[Blindmelon]

Was hoping UC Irvine would get ranked this year but still nope

Not until 2014 at the earliest.

Look to the TTT section.

[srfngdd6]

Is it OK to reference Michigan's fall to 10 when I withdraw this week?

I hope you do.


Does anyone have access to the USNWR Law Firms Rank Schools section?

Law Firms Rank Schools
1. Harvard
2. Stanford
2. Yale
4. Columbia
4. Mich
6. NYU
6. UVA
8. Cornell
8. Duke
8. NW
8. Chicago
13. Gtown
13. Penn
15. Vandy
15. WUSTL
17. Texas
18. Bu
18. Emory
18. Wash and Lee
18. UCLA
18. UMN
18. ND
18. USC
25. BC
25. UNC
25. Iowa

[flem]

I read every page of this shit and lol'd the whole time. There is some serious comedy gold in here. This has made my morning.

[Susan_Walid]

Can anyone explain Tennessee's huge drop, and Lewis and Clark's jump?

[specialsnowflake]

..and just when I thought Cooley was going to crack the top 100

[stillwater]

Can anyone explain Tennessee's huge drop, and Lewis and Clark's jump?

Yeah, USNWR put a bunch of arbitrary numbers in a big coal-fired machine and turned the magic lever.

[TLS_noobie]

I wonder if USNWR has 2014,2015,2016,2017........all ranked and ready to go. More efficient. They probably use some fortune cookie company for the rankings...

[minnbills]

..and just when I thought Cooley was going to crack the top 100

What are you talking about? According to the actual rankings they're a top school.

[TLS_noobie]

..and just when I thought Cooley was going to crack the top 100

What are you talking about? According to the actual rankings they're a top school.

truth.