Top Law Schools

How significant are they? Everyone talks about USNWR, but is PR worth a look?

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are you serious?

USNWR are the only rankings that matter.

Unless you go to Cooley

Kilpatrick wrote:USNWR are the only rankings that matter.

Unless you go to Cooley

What about the Canadian Wolf rankings. Those seemed legit.

ArtVandelay wrote:How significant are they? Everyone talks about USNWR, but is PR worth a look?

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Given a cursory inspection... Pepperdine is ranked ahead of Harvard. What do you think?

Edit: Excuse me. I also missed the fact that Arizona is ranked ahead of Yale. Dear God. Speaking in law school terms, these are lucky to be a sub-tier ahead of the Cooley rankings.

I realize it's not a good indicator of career prospects, but (based on the criteria) it seems to be more of a measure of QOL. Would you say it's accurate by those measures?

And it's not completely off compared to USNews. Aside from a few outliers--Harvard, Columbia, and Yale--the T14 is pretty much intact.

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Princeton Review rankings are based largely on the opinions of current law students.
Depending on your purpose for using rankings, PR might be a good source for gauging how content law students are with their current law school.

CanadianWolf wrote:Princeton Review rankings are based largely on the opinions of current law students.
Depending on your purpose for using rankings, PR might be a good source for gauging how content law students are with their current law school.

That's basically what I'm asking--do the ranking accurately measure that?

And why are schools like Yale and Harvard so low and schools like Fordham and GW so high?

CanadianWolf wrote:Princeton Review rankings are based largely on the opinions of current law students.
Depending on your purpose for using rankings, PR might be a good source for gauging how content law students are with their current law school.

TITCR, their rankings don't really speak to the overall quality of the institution necessarily, just a bunch of other "stuff."

So these rankings aren't legit??? Damn cause I just withdrew from Yale to go to pepperdine at sticker.