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Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 6:49 pm
by editor_gradprograms
According to law students across the country, the top ten best overall law schools are as follows:
1. UColorado at Boulder
2. UNC Chapel Hill
3. U of Arkansas
4. Northwestern
5. Stanford
6. UC Berkeley
7. UVA
8. Florida State
9. Vanderbilt
10. UT Austin
Thoughts on these student review based rankings?
Source:
http://www.graduateprograms.com/law-school-rankings/
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 6:50 pm
by Gooner91
It's kind of sad most of these students didn't look at job placement.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 6:54 pm
by sd5289
It kinda looks like they just took the USNWR rankings list, got drunk, and randomly pointed at the list 50 times in between drinks in order to construct these "rankings".
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 6:56 pm
by BigZuck
This is pretty awesome. #2 and #43 are my favorites.
Also loving Arkansas at #3. How did that happen? What possible metric could one use to get them that high?
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 6:57 pm
by lhanvt13
BigZuck wrote:This is pretty awesome. #2 and #43 are my favorites.
Also loving Arkansas at #3. How did that happen? What possible metric could one use to get them that high?
Drugs
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 6:58 pm
by sd5289
Oh, I'm enjoying the fact that Brooklyn is on that list but Columbia is not. El oh el.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:21 pm
by SFSpartan
The ranking system might as well be called "Students at schools with (mostly) poor job placement drink the Kool-Aid."
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 7:24 pm
by johnnyquest
Thomas Jefferson ahead of NYU and Yale. Also Duke is ranked 4th best in North Carolina.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 9:25 pm
by dixiecupdrinking
Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms. All law school rankings cover a period from September 1, 2012 to January 28, 2013. Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.
School rankings for specific graduate programs (business, law, engineering etc.) are determined by comparing the sum of the average scores in each of the 15 subcategories. Graduate programs are not ranked until the number of student surveys completed reaches a minimum threshold.
So this is a ranking of the schools where the most people have heard of "graduateprograms.com"
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 10:30 pm
by timbs4339
Students can't even properly use the rankings other people make for them, what the hell makes people think they'd be good at making up rankings?
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Wed May 21, 2014 10:49 pm
by HRomanus
timbs4339 wrote:Students can't even properly use the rankings other people make for them, what the hell makes people think they'd be good at making up rankings?
180.
Speaking of BS rankings, has anyone heard of Colleges of Distinction? It's an undergad "ranking that my school is on...but the description reads exactly like my school's marketing material. Sketch.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 12:03 am
by rickgrimes69
Graduateprograms.com wrote:METHODOLOGY
Graduateprograms.com reaches current and recent graduate students through scholarship entries as well as social media platforms. All law school rankings cover a period from September 1, 2012 to January 28, 2013. Graduateprograms.com assigns 15 ranking categories to each graduate program at each graduate school. Rankings cover a variety of student topics, such as academic competitiveness, career support, financial aid, and quality of network.
School rankings for specific graduate programs (business, law, engineering etc.) are determined by comparing the sum of the average scores in each of the 15 subcategories.Graduate programs are not ranked until the number of student surveys completed reaches a minimum threshold.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 3:06 am
by 03152016
Judging from your handle I take it that you put this together OP?
Why did you do it?
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 3:38 am
by paayter
its these kinds of rankings that create business for TTTTTTT schools. its a good way for current students at TTTTTTTT to validate themselves. "hey we aren't ranked in US news, but we are a top 15 program on graduateprograms.com. dumbest ranking ever.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:34 am
by papercut
This is probably a 4chan conspiracy.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 4:59 am
by Nova
not useful
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 6:24 am
by PDaddy
When stuff like this happens, I just blame George W. Bush!
1. UColorado at Boulder (safety)
2. UNC Chapel Hill (safety)
3. U of Arkansas (safety)
8. Florida State (safety)
7. UVA (range)
4. Northwestern (range)
9. Vanderbilt (range)
10. UT Austin (range)
5. Stanford (reach)
6. UC Berkeley (splitter's reach)
4 range schools
4 safety schools
2 reach schools
Yo! This is somebody's list, and it's too random for anyone to pay attention beyond making jokes out of it. Besides, a 5-4-3 distribution, meaning 5 range - 4 safety - 3 reach (12 schools total), would be a better way to go.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 12:59 pm
by Micdiddy
Northwestern 4? This is even better than the Cooley rankings.
Re: Alternative Student based rankings
Posted: Thu May 22, 2014 1:49 pm
by Gooner91
This is probably the most traffic his website has seen.