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Two quick questions:

1. Does anyone know when the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings will be released?

2. Is there a site that tracks how the various law schools have shifted in the US News rankings over the past few years? I recall that there was such a site for undergrad school rankings.

Thanks.

paradox wrote:Two quick questions:

1. Does anyone know when the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings will be released?

2. Is there a site that tracks how the various law schools have shifted in the US News rankings over the past few years? I recall that there was such a site for undergrad school rankings.

Thanks.

It doesn't really matter. It's top 14, top 25, then tiers. No one cares if Georgetown becomes 13 and if Cardozo becomes 60. It doesn't matter.

AriGoldButNicer wrote:

paradox wrote:Two quick questions:

1. Does anyone know when the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings will be released?

2. Is there a site that tracks how the various law schools have shifted in the US News rankings over the past few years? I recall that there was such a site for undergrad school rankings.

Thanks.

It doesn't really matter. It's 1st, top 3, top 6, top 10, top 14, top 25, then tiers. No one cares if Georgetown becomes 13 and if Cardozo becomes 60. It doesn't matter.

Fixed for elitist's sake.

paradox wrote:Two quick questions:

1. Does anyone know when the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings will be released?

2. Is there a site that tracks how the various law schools have shifted in the US News rankings over the past few years? I recall that there was such a site for undergrad school rankings.

Thanks.

Usually mid-March.

I think this site tracks three years...

Doorkeeper wrote:

AriGoldButNicer wrote:

paradox wrote:Two quick questions:

1. Does anyone know when the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings will be released?

2. Is there a site that tracks how the various law schools have shifted in the US News rankings over the past few years? I recall that there was such a site for undergrad school rankings.

Thanks.

It doesn't really matter. It's 1st, top 3, top 6, top 10, top 13, top 14, top 17 then tiers. No one cares if Georgetown becomes 13 and if Cardozo becomes 60. It doesn't matter.

Fixed for elitist's sake.

FTFY

I hope this being in the "Choosing a Law School" forum doesn't mean there are actually people waiting for the new rankings so they can use it to decide where to attend..

Agreed.

johansantana21 wrote:

Doorkeeper wrote:

AriGoldButNicer wrote:

paradox wrote:Two quick questions:

1. Does anyone know when the 2013 US News & World Report Law School Rankings will be released?

2. Is there a site that tracks how the various law schools have shifted in the US News rankings over the past few years? I recall that there was such a site for undergrad school rankings.

Thanks.

It doesn't really matter. It's 1st, top 3, top 6, top 10, top 13, top 14, top 17 then tiers. No one cares if Georgetown becomes 13 and if Cardozo becomes 60. It doesn't matter.

Fixed for elitist's sake.

FTFY

What the hell is top 17? Is this like UCLA trying to pretend it's special?

UCLA/Vandy/Tex traditionally have big firm and clerkship placement noticeably better than Woostle/GW/BC/BU etc.

It should probably be HYS/T14/UCLA Vandy UT BC BU/Doesn't matter.

FWIW:

Link for USNWR law schools ranked top 25 for years 1987 through 2003
http://www.top-law-schools.com/forums/v ... ?f=1&t=213


Link for USNWR law schools ranked #18 through #50 for years 1997 through 2010
http://www.thefacultylounge.org/2010/12 ... -2010.html

y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

When is the Class of 2011's employment data released? We're just about at the nine month mark.

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

mrtoren wrote:When is the Class of 2011's employment data released? We're just about at the nine month mark.

Well, considering they have to collect the data AFTER the 9 month mark, I'd say we have another couple of months to wait.

InGoodFaith wrote:

mrtoren wrote:When is the Class of 2011's employment data released? We're just about at the nine month mark.

Well, considering they have to collect the data AFTER the 9 month mark, I'd say we have another couple of months to wait.

Your wisdom is all too inspiring.

I can't imagine it would take them long to compile it.

Grizz wrote:

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

Nope...its right. Let me guess, 0L?

bogart wrote:

Grizz wrote:

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

Nope...its right. Let me guess, 0L?

Oh it's about to go down.

bogart wrote:

Grizz wrote:

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

Nope...its right. Let me guess, 0L?

I definitely think you're onto something...

While it may be true that picking a school in your city makes sense after a certain point, there is certainly a noticeable difference in BigLaw placement between 18 (~29%) and 42 (~11%). Even if you weren't completely off base with his school year, it doesn't take a law student to look at numbers.

InGoodFaith wrote:

bogart wrote:

Grizz wrote:

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

Nope...its right. Let me guess, 0L?

Oh it's about to go down.

Ok. I laughed pretty hard at this post. LOL. I am sleep deprived though so it could just be that.

What are the 'tiers' after top 25? Like 26-100 is Tier 1? Always wondered this.

goldeneye wrote:What are the 'tiers' after top 25? Like 26-100 is Tier 1? Always wondered this.

Well, tier 1 is the top 50 schools (not sure why you designated t25 as that doesn't really mean anything). Tier 2 is 51-100, and tiers 3 and 4 fall after that.

InGoodFaith wrote:

goldeneye wrote:What are the 'tiers' after top 25? Like 26-100 is Tier 1? Always wondered this.

Well, tier 1 is the top 50 schools (not sure why you designated t25 as that doesn't really mean anything). Tier 2 is 51-100, and tiers 3 and 4 fall after that.

Last year USNWR changed their tiers, so that 1-100 are Tier 1 and 101-200+ are Tier 2, and all schools get numbered ranks instead of just 1-100, but this is clearly retarded, so we ignore it.

bogart wrote:

Grizz wrote:

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

Nope...its right. Let me guess, 0L?

Yeah, so what?

bogart wrote:

Grizz wrote:

bogart wrote:y > h/s > t14 > best school in city where you want to practice. i.e. washington over vandy for seattle, etc..usnews changes school order periodically to validate its existence. Bottom line, your potential oci interviewer is not going to split hairs between the #18 ranked school and #42.

This is stupid.

Nope...its right. Let me guess, 0L?

He could have hypothetically never heard of law school and your assertion would still be stupid.