Top Law Schools

and Chicago number 1?

Malcolm Gladwell's ranking system has some interesting results. He uses value vs. LSAT vs. faculty publishing. Better than US News system?

http://www.abajournal.com/weekly/articl ... ekly_email

Here are the ranks:

1) Chicago

2) BYU

3) Harvard

4) Yale

5) Texas

6) Virginia

7) Colorado

8 Alabama

9) Stanford

10) Pennsylvania

Base it on jobs instead of bullshit and we can talk.

faculty publishing is the biggest load of shit.

Plus you can't weigh the LSAT as 40% and not consider GPA.

Agree with above, total bullshit. The only thing that matters is prestige whoring and job placement. We're talking about fucking professional schools, not the life of the mind.

i think there should be one giant law school for the entire country.

boom. no more rankings.

twert wrote:faculty publishing is the biggest load of shit.

This. Barely anyone reads their articles except other profs. It's intellectual masturbation at its finest.

I guess BYU is better than Cooley...

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Yes.

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The point is that all rankings are shit, but some people actually pay attention to the USNWR rankings, which is the only ranking system that does correlate (loosely, and very loosely after T18) to hiring practices.

fatduck wrote:i think there should be one giant law school for the entire country.

boom. no more rankings.

+1

Malcolm Gladwell is ludicrously overrated and the rankings system he proposes is terrible.

Outliers on CD during long car rides = F**king Fantastic

Malcolm Gladwell's Law School Rankings = Meh.

short answer: no
long answer: noooooooooooooooooooooo

sure why not, its not like the rankings mean anything anyways

Bildungsroman wrote:Malcolm Gladwell is ludicrously overrated and the rankings system he proposes is terrible.

This.

Here's my ranking system:
Rank based on *real* employment statistics and bar passage rates, LSAT and GPA can be thrown in there too, but stuff like library size and acceptance rate are too easily gamed.

Top 20 schools are ranked as national schools
What is now 21- ~125 would be regionally ranked
All other schools would be demolished or turned into campus food courts

Should BYU be ranked number 2? No

Should Chicago be ranked number 1? YES!

as a Utah boy going to UChi next year, I admit I love these rankings.

All that ranking is bullshit talk aside, its pretty interesting that BYU gets No. 2 with its 164 LSAT median when the LSAT is weighted at 40%. Faculty publishing and value have to be huge for the school to get that high.

No

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EDIT: Apparently my post constituted trolling. I didn't realize this was such a serious thread.

Bildungsroman wrote:Malcolm Gladwell is ludicrously overrated and the rankings system he proposes is terrible.

I don't think he proposes any rankings system. I thought that this was his point in the article.

casterfield wrote:

Bildungsroman wrote:Malcolm Gladwell is ludicrously overrated and the rankings system he proposes is terrible.

I don't think he proposes any rankings system. I thought that this was his point in the article.

The point of the article was for him to make some ludicrous claim (BYU as #2) to get publicity.

casterfield wrote:

Bildungsroman wrote:Malcolm Gladwell is ludicrously overrated and the rankings system he proposes is terrible.

I don't think he proposes any rankings system. I thought that this was his point in the article.

idk, I don't have a New Yorker subscription so I couldn't read the whole thing.

I guess we'll know come the rapture.

OGR3 wrote:

Bildungsroman wrote:Malcolm Gladwell is ludicrously overrated and the rankings system he proposes is terrible.

This.

Here's my ranking system:
Rank based on *real* employment statistics and bar passage rates, LSAT and GPA can be thrown in there too, but stuff like library size and acceptance rate are too easily gamed.

Top 20 schools are ranked as national schools
What is now 21- ~125 would be regionally ranked
All other schools would be demolished or turned into campus food courts

+1 Nice. I would support this plan.