Top Law School according to student reviews- interesting! Forum

[jkara11]

Just saw this updated semi-annual law school rankings according to student reviews. While they should be taken with a grain of salt, it's interesting to hear what current students have to say about their law school and how they rank it.

http://www.graduateprograms.com/law-school-rankings/

1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 University of Colorado at Boulder
3 The University of Alabama
4 University of Florida
5 Northwestern University
6 Stanford University
7 University of Virginia
8 University of California-Berkeley
9 Texas Tech University
10 Thomas Jefferson School of Law
11 Vanderbilt University
12 Florida State University
13 Arizona State University
14 The University of Texas at Austin
15 Harvard University
16 New York University
17 Howard University
18 Washington University in St. Louis
19 Temple University
20 North Carolina Central University
21 University of San Francisco
22 Rutgers University-Newark
23 South Texas College of Law
24 Oklahoma City University
25 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
27 Brigham Young University
28 New York Law School
29 Yale University
30 The Ohio State University
31 University of Maryland Baltimore
32 University of Connecticut
33 Boston College
34 Indiana University Bloomington
35 Washington and Lee University
36 Vermont Law School
37 Pepperdine University
38 Cornell University
39 Georgetown University
40 University of California-Los Angeles
41 Duke University
42 Baylor University
43 Depaul University
44 University of Utah
45 Charlotte School of Law
46 Southern Methodist University
47 Boston University
48 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
49 University of San Diego
50 University of Georgia

[McAvoy2]

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 September 30, 2014. 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...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.

Useless

[TooOld4This]

Why do you think this list is remotely interesting?

• "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 September 30, 2014. 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."

[baal hadad]

Just saw this updated semi-annual law school rankings according to student reviews. While they should be taken with a grain of salt, it's interesting to hear what current students have to say about their law school and how they rank it.

http://www.graduateprograms.com/law-school-rankings/

1 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2 University of Colorado at Boulder
3 The University of Alabama
4 University of Florida
5 Northwestern University
6 Stanford University
7 University of Virginia
8 University of California-Berkeley
9 Texas Tech University
10 Thomas Jefferson School of Law
11 Vanderbilt University
12 Florida State University
13 Arizona State University
14 The University of Texas at Austin
15 Harvard University
16 New York University
17 Howard University
18 Washington University in St. Louis
19 Temple University
20 North Carolina Central University
21 University of San Francisco
22 Rutgers University-Newark
23 South Texas College of Law
24 Oklahoma City University
25 Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
26 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
27 Brigham Young University
28 New York Law School
29 Yale University
30 The Ohio State University
31 University of Maryland Baltimore
32 University of Connecticut
33 Boston College
34 Indiana University Bloomington
35 Washington and Lee University
36 Vermont Law School
37 Pepperdine University
38 Cornell University
39 Georgetown University
40 University of California-Los Angeles
41 Duke University
42 Baylor University
43 Depaul University
44 University of Utah
45 Charlotte School of Law
46 Southern Methodist University
47 Boston University
48 University of Minnesota Twin Cities
49 University of San Diego
50 University of Georgia

[TheSpanishMain]

I wouldn't put much any stock in this, considering it has Thomas Jefferson School of Law (which is a kind of dumpster fire that's rare in human history) above Harvard. When evaluating law schools, you should really be looking at cost and career outcomes, not whether the current students like the university wifi or whatever.

[phillywc]

I mean its decent entertainment to see something like

5 Northwestern University
6 Stanford University
7 University of Virginia
8 University of California-Berkeley
9 Texas Tech University
10 Thomas Jefferson School of Law


but yeah this is junk

[Manteca]

No Cooley? Thought it would have a higher review based on its library size.

[baal hadad]

No Cooley? Thought it would have a higher review based on its library size.

Cooley library jokes r sorta played out tho

[haus]

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 September 30, 2014. 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...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.

Useless

Not so fast.

From the sounds of it, they reached and contacted people who A) filled out applications for likely bogus/non-existent scholarships or B) answering bots via social media request.

This is prime phishing behavior. So we now have a list of how well law schools are liked (relatively) by those people who should not be trusted with a computer.

[Attax]

How did Tech rank higher than Texas? Anyone who has ever been to Lubbock knows it is a miserably depressing place.

Also, Texas to the T14. Woohoo.

[03152016]

reporting for spam
brand new accounts have posted this multiple times in the past

e: also ljfl

[arklaw13]

Those poor Yalies. Bet they wish they had gone to Thomas Jefferson. Suckers.

[LishaZen25]

Harvard Law School is still the best school for me.

[NorCalLaw]

Unskilled and Unaware of It: How Difficulties in Recognizing One’s Own Incompetence Lead to Inflated Self-Assessments
Abstract
People tend to hold overly favorable views of their abilities in many social and intellectual domains. The authors suggest that this overestimation occurs, in part, because people who are unskilled in these domains suffer a dual burden: Not only do these people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it. Across 4 studies, the authors found that participants scoring in the bottom quartile on tests of humor, grammar, and logic grossly overestimated their test performance and ability. Although their test scores put them in the 12th percentile, they estimated themselves to be in the 62nd. Several analyses linked this miscalibration to deficits in metacognitive skill, or the capacity to distinguish accuracy from error. Paradoxically, improving the skills of participants, and thus increasing their metacognitive competence, helped them recognize the limitations of their abilities.

[romothesavior]

A lot of shit schools on that list. Happy, naive lemmings right before they get slaughtered in the job market.

[sublime]

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