Top Law Schools

Come on, everyone knows that the only place ‘Bama should be ranked ahead of Harvard is on a football field!

Employment Outcomes: 50%
Employment Rate: 22.5%
Super Lawyers: 12.5%
Partners in NLJ 200: 10%
Bar Passage: 5%

Peer Assessment: 35%
RateMyProfessors.com: 20%
Princeton Review: 15%

Cost of Attendance: 10%
Debt: 10%

Other: 5%
Diversity: 5%

Employment Outcomes: 20%
Employment rate at graduation: 4%
Employment rate at nine months after graduation: 14%
Bar passage rate: 2%

Peer Assessment: 25%
Peer assessment score: 25%

Cost of Attendance: 1.5%
Financial aid: 1.5%

Other: 53.5%
Assessment score by lawyers/judges: 15%
Median LSAT scores : 12.5%
Median undergrad GPA: 10%
Acceptance rate: 2.5%
Average instruction, library, and supporting services: 9.75%
Student/faculty ratio: 3%
Library resources: 0.75%

Employment Outcomes: 7.5%
Percentage of Graduates Employed: 2.5%
Number of States in which Graduates are Employed: 2.5%
First-Time Bar Passage Percentage: 2.5%

Peer Assessment: 2.5%
Program Achievement Rating Rank: 2.5%

Cost of Attendance: 15%
Full-Time Resident Tuition: 2.5%
Full-Time Non-Resident Tuition: 2.5%
Percentage of Students Receiving Grants/Scholarships: 2.5%
Median Amount of Grants/Scholarships: 2.5%
Full-Time Resident Affordability Rankings: 2.5%
Full-Time Non-Resident Affordability Rankings: 2.5%

Library Quality: 25%
Library Materials Expenditure: 2.5%
Total Volumes in Library: 2.5%
Total Titles in Library: 2.5%
Total Serial Subscriptions: 2.5%
Number of Professional Librarians: 2.5%
Library Hours per Week with Professional Staff: 2.5%
Total Library Hours per Week: 2.5%
Library Seating Capacity: 2.5%
Number of Networked Computers Available for Use by Students: 2.5%
Library Total Square Footage: 2.5%

Other: 50%
Total JD Enrollment: 2.5%
Total Minority Enrollment: 2.5%
Percentage of Minority Students: 2.5%
JD First-Year Matriculant Rankings: 2.5%
JD First-Year Minority Enrollment Rankings: 2.5%
JD First-Year Minority Percentage Rankings: 2.5%
JD Foreign National Students: 2.5%
JD Foreign National Percentage Rankings: 2.5%
Median Percentile UGPA: 2.5%
Median Percentile LSAT: 2.5%
Total Applications: 2.5%
Number of Full-Time Faculty: 2.5%
Number of Part-Time Faculty: 2.5%
Total Teaching Faculty: 2.5%
Number of Minority Faculty: 2.5%
Student-Faculty Ratio: 2.5%
Typical First-Year Section Size: 2.5%
Number of Course Titles Beyond the First Year: 2.5%
Non-Library Total Square Footage: 2.5%
Total Law School Square Footage: 2.5%

cahwc12 wrote:

Employment Outcomes: 50%
Employment Rate: 22.5%
Super Lawyers: 12.5%
Partners in NLJ 200: 10%
Bar Passage: 5%

Peer Assessment: 35%
RateMyProfessors.com: 20%
Princeton Review: 15%

Cost of Attendance: 10%
Debt: 10%

Other: 5%
Diversity: 5%

Employment Outcomes: 20%
Employment rate at graduation: 4%
Employment rate at nine months after graduation: 14%
Bar passage rate: 2%

Peer Assessment: 25%
Peer assessment score: 25%

Cost of Attendance: 1.5%
Financial aid: 1.5%

Other: 53.5%
Assessment score by lawyers/judges: 15%
Median LSAT scores : 12.5%
Median undergrad GPA: 10%
Acceptance rate: 2.5%
Average instruction, library, and supporting services: 9.75%
Student/faculty ratio: 3%
Library resources: 0.75%

Which one looks more ridiculous to you? The one that rates employment outcomes at 50% or the one that factors in selectivity, admissions scores, boomer opinions and library services at 50%?

drmguy wrote:Transfer the 20% from ratemyprofessors to employment outcome, and I would like them.

spicyyoda17 wrote:

drmguy wrote:Transfer the 20% from ratemyprofessors to employment outcome, and I would like them.

Any sort of rankings that gives such significant weight to ratemyprofessors loses legitimacy with me. It's not because students don't use it. It's not because it's not useful.

It's because ratemyprofessors is a reflection of different expectations, which is in turn a reflection of different academic goals. Students at Stanford are grading professors at Stanford. Students at Alabama are grading professors at Alabama. The expectations of students at Stanford (in terms of quality, teaching methods, etc.) are going to be different, so comparing the ratings of Stanford's professors to those at Alabama is faulty.

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Yeah, Rate My Professors is bullshit. The biggest problem is that it's entirely voluntary, so generally the only people who use it are those who really really hated their profs and those who really really loved their profs (and probably more of the former than the latter). It's statistically useless. If you want to collect school-administered student evals and use those, that would be one thing (but even those probably have a really terrible return rate).

john7234797 wrote:

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Yeah, Rate My Professors is bullshit. The biggest problem is that it's entirely voluntary, so generally the only people who use it are those who really really hated their profs and those who really really loved their profs (and probably more of the former than the latter). It's statistically useless. If you want to collect school-administered student evals and use those, that would be one thing (but even those probably have a really terrible return rate).

Rate My Professors = super useful for finding out which professors give out easy A's in undergrad. Anyone who want to be "pre-law" and is in a major with a lot of course flexibility (useless liberal arts degrees FT...W?) should use it.

Crowing wrote: I admittedly found the site quite useful for UG.

nickb285 wrote:Congratulations Dean Perez!

pastapplicant wrote:LOL texas tech has this up on their school website.

cahwc12 wrote: USNWR peer assessment isn't actually peer assessment at all, because they don't poll the students (peers). Instead, they poll faculty and administration. Do you really think their opinions will be valid about other schools to which they have no association?

cahwc12 wrote:http://lmgtfy.com/?q=define+peer

Merriam-Webster wrote:1 : one that is of equal standing with another : equal ; especially : one belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status