What are your T14 school tiers? Forum

[BirdLawExpert]

Updated tier list based on proximity to professional sports, now including schools up to T20

T1 (All professional leagues, some with multiple teams, located in city)
Columbia, NYU, Chicago, Northwestern, UCLA, USC

T2 (All professional leagues, located in city)
Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, BU

T3 (All professional leagues, located near city)
Michigan, Berkeley, Stanford

T4 (At least one professional team in metro area)
Duke, Vanderbilt, WashU

TTT (Located far from any city with professional teams, but a day trip is possible)
Cornell, Yale, UVA, UT, Iowa

[Trippel]

Updated tier list based on proximity to professional sports, now including schools up to T20

T1 (All professional leagues, some with multiple teams, located in city)
Columbia, NYU, Chicago, Northwestern, UCLA, USC

T2 (All professional leagues, located in city)
Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, BU

T3 (All professional leagues, located near city)
Michigan, Berkeley, Stanford

T4 (At least one professional team in metro area)
Duke, Vanderbilt, WashU

TTT (Located far from any city with professional teams, but a day trip is possible)
Cornell, Yale, UVA, UT, Iowa

Cool, thanks.

[rpupkin]

T2 (All professional leagues, located in city)
Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, BU

TIL that there are professional teams located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

If you're going to give Harvard credit for all of the Boston teams because Cambridge is located in the Boston metro area, then why don't you give Berkeley and Stanford credit for the Bay Area teams?

[yenisey]

Eh, I still get UPenn and Penn State confused. It might be because I'm from California, where 'UC' or 'Cal State' automatically = state school.

You probably also mix UMich up with Michigan State.

[BirdLawExpert]

T2 (All professional leagues, located in city)
Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, BU

TIL that there are professional teams located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

If you're going to give Harvard credit for all of the Boston teams because Cambridge is located in the Boston metro area, then why don't you give Berkeley and Stanford credit for the Bay Area teams?

Stanford is a thirty minute drive from San Francisco, and while Berkeley is close to Oakland teams it's a solid hour drive from either San Jose or Levi's Stadium, in the most ideal of conditions.

I could leave a seat in a lecture hall at Harvard and be in a seat at Fenway twenty minutes later. It'd be damn near impossible to do that for any stadium, even in Oakland, at Berkeley. And for Stanford the same is true even though Levi's Stadium is "next door" by Bay Area terms.

In my opinion, the nature of the city of Boston is so different than the nature of the Bay Area that the comparison doesn't make sense in my mind.

In a different scenario, I would put a theoretical T20 school in Dallas proper in the same tier as Stanford and Berkeley, since the Cowboys and Rangers play in Arlington, which is a forty-five minute drive from some parts of Dallas. But if Georgetown Law were located at the main campus rather than DC proper it wouldn't at all change in my ranking.

[rpupkin]

T2 (All professional leagues, located in city)
Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, BU

TIL that there are professional teams located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

If you're going to give Harvard credit for all of the Boston teams because Cambridge is located in the Boston metro area, then why don't you give Berkeley and Stanford credit for the Bay Area teams?

Stanford is a thirty minute drive from San Francisco, and while Berkeley is close to Oakland teams it's a solid hour drive from either San Jose or Levi's Stadium, in the most ideal of conditions.

I could leave a seat in a lecture hall at Harvard and be in a seat at Fenway twenty minutes later. It'd be damn near impossible to do that for any stadium, even in Oakland, at Berkeley.

Eh. It's a 20-minute BART ride from Berkeley to the Oakland Coliseum for As/Raiders/Warriors games. Come to think of it, Berkeley is closer to the Coliseum than Cambridge is to Gillette.

In conclusion, your post is blatant pro-Harvard trolling.

[BirdLawExpert]

T2 (All professional leagues, located in city)
Harvard, Georgetown, Penn, BU

TIL that there are professional teams located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

If you're going to give Harvard credit for all of the Boston teams because Cambridge is located in the Boston metro area, then why don't you give Berkeley and Stanford credit for the Bay Area teams?

Stanford is a thirty minute drive from San Francisco, and while Berkeley is close to Oakland teams it's a solid hour drive from either San Jose or Levi's Stadium, in the most ideal of conditions.

I could leave a seat in a lecture hall at Harvard and be in a seat at Fenway twenty minutes later. It'd be damn near impossible to do that for any stadium, even in Oakland, at Berkeley.

Eh. It's a 20-minute BART ride from Berkeley to the Oakland Coliseum for As/Raiders/Warriors games. Come to think of it, Berkeley is closer to the Coliseum than Cambridge is to Gillette.

In conclusion, your post is blatant pro-Harvard trolling.

I mean, it's definitely blatant trolling, just more anti-Yale/Cornell than pro-Harvard.

[sanibella]

Try and guess my criteria. Five lsat points for the winner. My tiers:

BCCC

DGH

MNNP

SVY

[rpupkin]

Try and guess my criteria. Five lsat points for the winner. My tiers:

BCCC

DGH

MNNP

SVY

Blatant anti-Russian-alphabet trolling.

[sanibella]

Try and guess my criteria. Five lsat points for the winner. My tiers:

BCCC

DGH

MNNP

SVY

Blatant anti-Russian-alphabet trolling.

Excuse me, but I'm actually from Russia. Not my fault USA produces a much larger number of federal judicial clerks than Russia.

[rpupkin]

Excuse me, but I'm actually from Russia. Not my fault USA produces a much larger number of federal judicial clerks than Russia.

Or so the Russians would have us believe.