2017 USNWR T25 Prediction Contest (Winners Announced) Forum

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[Rigo]

Thanks Lexaholik and wiz!
And North and Spivey!

[North]

Oh my god "Rankings" has an apostrophe that makes it incorrectly possessive at the top of every single image I just posted

That is going to drive me absolutely insane

[pittsburghpirates]

Thanks Lexaholik and wiz!
And North and Spivey!

Congrats Rigo!!

Thanks for putting the contest on North and Spivey!

[xael]

Does spivey help with lateralling? At this rate i should be #1 in about 4-5 years.

[Hand]

Congrats Rigo!

[ms9]

Congrats Rigio! PM me so we can set up a pone call to discuss. Cannibal Ox made the trip and we had a really good time -- hopefully you can I can put together a similar agenda.

Everyone is the big winner for participating! Let's do it again next year.

-Mike

Oh and thanks Lexaholik and Wiz for being cool!

[ms9]

Does spivey help with lateralling? At this rate i should be #1 in about 4-5 years.

I have helped some of my former students with lateraling from mid- sized firms to BigLaw, yes.

[Lexaholik]

Thank you all so very much. Thank you to Mike Spivey. Thank you to all of you at TLS. I have to congratulate the other incredible contestants this year. My contest entry was the product of an unbelievable amount of downtime at work.

First off, to my brother in this endeavor, North. North, your talent on TLS can only be surpassed by your friendship offline … thank you for creating a transcendent forum experience. Thank you to everybody at Lexaholik.com … my entire crew. I also have to thank everyone from the very onset of my legal career … To my parents; none of this would be possible without you. And to my friends, I love you dearly; you know who you are.

And lastly, I just want to say this: My contest entry was about man's relationship to law school prestige. Prestige that we collectively felt in 2016 was the only way to find a job that allowed you to pay off your debt. I needed to move to the frigid Midwest years ago just to find a T14 that would admit me.

Prestige Obsession is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire profession, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support TLS posters who do not just speak for 170+ scorers, but who speak for all law students, for the LSAT re-takers, for the thousands of 0Ls out there who would be most affected by this. For our children’s children, and for those solo practitioners and government lawyers out there whose voices have been drowned out by bonus announcements from Above The Law.

I thank you all for this amazing recognition tonight. Let us not take this profession for granted. I do not take tonight for granted. Thank you so very much.

[Hikikomorist]

[ms9]

55 Baylor (+1)
55 Richmond (-3)
57 Case Western (+2)
57 Nebraska (-1)
60 Cincinnati (+22)
60 Kentucky (+3)
60 Miami (+3)
60 New Mexico (+11)
60 Oklahoma (+7)
65 Loyola (CA) (+10)
65 Pepperdine (-13)
65 Seton Hall (-2)
65 Connecticut (-2)
65 Kansas (+2)
65 Missouri (-6)
65 Tennessee (-13)
72 Loyola - Chicago (+6)
72 Denver (-5)
74 St. John's (+8)
74 San Diego (-3)
74 Villanova (+13)
74 Cardozo (+1)
78 American (-7)
78 UNLV (-11)
78 Oregon (+4)
78 Pittsburgh
82 LSU (+12)
82 Northeastern (+5)
82 St. Louis (+5)
82 New Hampshire (+5)
86 Chicago - Kent (-8)
86 Penn State - Dickenson (-15)
86 Penn State - University Park (-15)
86 Syracuse (+1)
86 Arkansas (-11)
86 Tulsa (-4)
92 Lewis & Clark (+2)
92 Rutgers (-5) *assuming this is Newark*
92 Hawaii (-10)
92 Louisville (+2)
92 South Carolina (+2)
97 Brooklyn (-19)
97 Wayne State (+8)
97 West Virginia (-3)
100 Indiana University - Indianapolis (+2)
100 Michigan State (-6)
100 SUNY Buffalo (-13)

Everyone, please note Kansas is +2, not negative 2, in the rankings. (I fixed in my copy of your post)

Ox, you screwed me over big time, I'm not sure I will ever recover from this.

Edit update, I am fully recovered.

[pittsburghpirates]

So close to the hot sauce, yet so far away...

[BasilHallward]

55 Baylor (+1)
55 Richmond (-3)
57 Case Western (+2)
57 Nebraska (-1)
60 Cincinnati (+22)
60 Kentucky (+3)
60 Miami (+3)
60 New Mexico (+11)
60 Oklahoma (+7)
65 Loyola (CA) (+10)
65 Pepperdine (-13)
65 Seton Hall (-2)
65 Connecticut (-2)
65 Kansas (+2)
65 Missouri (-6)
65 Tennessee (-13)
72 Loyola - Chicago (+6)
72 Denver (-5)
74 St. John's (+8)
74 San Diego (-3)
74 Villanova (+13)
74 Cardozo (+1)
78 American (-7)
78 UNLV (-11)
78 Oregon (+4)
78 Pittsburgh
82 LSU (+12)
82 Northeastern (+5)
82 St. Louis (+5)
82 New Hampshire (+5)
86 Chicago - Kent (-8)
86 Penn State - Dickenson (-15)
86 Penn State - University Park (-15)
86 Syracuse (+1)
86 Arkansas (-11)
86 Tulsa (-4)
92 Lewis & Clark (+2)
92 Rutgers (-5) *assuming this is Newark*
92 Hawaii (-10)
92 Louisville (+2)
92 South Carolina (+2)
97 Brooklyn (-19)
97 Wayne State (+8)
97 West Virginia (-3)
100 Indiana University - Indianapolis (+2)
100 Michigan State (-6)
100 SUNY Buffalo (-13)

Everyone, please note Kansas is +2, not negative 2, in the rankings. (I fixed in my copy of your post)

Ox, you screwed me over big time, I'm not sure I will ever recover from this.

Edit update, I am fully recovered.

Dammit, Brooklyn. I realize that there is so much noise in the rankings at this range, but the school can do nothing right. They lowered tuition 15% and USNWR is still running for the hills, as they should.

Edit: Grammar

[cannibal ox]

Just trying to keep you on your toes, Spivey.

That and I have issues with adding/subtracting.

[Robb]

Gratz to the winners, really cool of Lexaholik and Wiz to turn down the grand prize so an 0L could get it! Thank you North for doing this AGAIN this year - always fun. Really love the pretty fancy pictures for displaying the rankings of rankers this year. And thank you MikeSpivey for sponsoring it yet again Happy I was saved from having to transfer before my final quarter, now that I know we didn't drop in the rankings.

[reasonableperson]

55 Baylor (+1)
55 Richmond (-3)
57 Case Western (+2)
57 Nebraska (-1)
60 Cincinnati (+22)
60 Kentucky (+3)
60 Miami (+3)
60 New Mexico (+11)
60 Oklahoma (+7)
65 Loyola (CA) (+10)
65 Pepperdine (-13)
65 Seton Hall (-2)
65 Connecticut (-2)
65 Kansas (+2)
65 Missouri (-6)
65 Tennessee (-13)
72 Loyola - Chicago (+6)
72 Denver (-5)
74 St. John's (+8)
74 San Diego (-3)
74 Villanova (+13)
74 Cardozo (+1)
78 American (-7)
78 UNLV (-11)
78 Oregon (+4)
78 Pittsburgh
82 LSU (+12)
82 Northeastern (+5)
82 St. Louis (+5)
82 New Hampshire (+5)
86 Chicago - Kent (-8)
86 Penn State - Dickenson (-15)
86 Penn State - University Park (-15)
86 Syracuse (+1)
86 Arkansas (-11)
86 Tulsa (-4)
92 Lewis & Clark (+2)
92 Rutgers (-5) *assuming this is Newark*
92 Hawaii (-10)
92 Louisville (+2)
92 South Carolina (+2)
97 Brooklyn (-19)
97 Wayne State (+8)
97 West Virginia (-3)
100 Indiana University - Indianapolis (+2)
100 Michigan State (-6)
100 SUNY Buffalo (-13)

Everyone, please note Kansas is +2, not negative 2, in the rankings. (I fixed in my copy of your post)

Ox, you screwed me over big time, I'm not sure I will ever recover from this.

Edit update, I am fully recovered.

Dammit, Brooklyn. I realize that there is so much noise in the rankings at this range, but the school can do nothing right. They lowered tuition 15% and USNWR is still running for the hills, as they should.

Edit: Grammar

Lower tuition was the reason for the huge drop, as one of the metrics, "Expenditures per student", counts for more than 10% of the rankings.