2015 USNWR T25 Prediction Contest (Winners Announced) Forum

[jdapplicant]

I may be biased but I don't think you can place NYU in the same tier as Berkeley or UVA, or even Penn really.

Not that any of this matters for more than the sake of our own discussion and entertainment.

+1

[boushi]

So how does the scoring work for schools that were not ranked at all? For example, I didn't put Washington or W&M in my top 25. How will the penalty for that sort of error be calculated?

u r done here

Did I miss something obvious? I didn't read every page of the thread, but it seems unclear from the rules stated in the OP...

[rebexness]

Oh right, silly having three schools be #20.

How does that equal 25 doe?

The next school would need to be #24. Two schools are #24 = the t25.

Did Spivey's twitter post the 24s? I don't see anything on the blog.

[lhanvt13]

Jesus, the simple arithmetic fails ITT. No wonder STEM degrees are in demand

[lhanvt13]

Oh right, silly having three schools be #20.

How does that equal 25 doe?

The next school would need to be #24. Two schools are #24 = the t25.

Did Spivey's twitter post the 24s? I don't see anything on the blog.

University of washington and w&m
@spiveyconsult

[rebexness]

University of washington and w&m
@spiveyconsult

THX! (i'm too old to twitter effectively)

[boushi]

So how does the scoring work for schools that were not ranked at all? For example, I didn't put Washington or W&M in my top 25. How will the penalty for that sort of error be calculated?

you will be penalized by however many spots the schools you mistakenly put in the T25 are off by.

I think.

Ah, ok. Probably should have just filled in the schools after the top 14 with schools that had very little chance of making the top 25, if that is the case. Maybe next year a flat 5 point penalty for each school in the T25 that one did not rank would eliminate the problem.

[snagglepuss]

The real elephant in the room here is that no one is going to go to non-T2 institution Stanford. Harvard to 700 1Ls!

[Crowing]

Wait lemme get this straight

SLS increased their LSAT median... And dropped??

So mad.

[patogordo]

game over Stanford, close up shop

[rad lulz]

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[Baby_Got_Feuerbach]

Second page please

[03152016]

I may be biased but I don't think you can place NYU in the same tier as Berkeley or UVA, or even Penn really.

Penn is awesome, but I also don't really buy the CCNP thing. The tier thing is sort of silly (as are USNWR rankings in general), but if you had to make them, there's a certain logic in HYS/CCN.

I've always taken the tiers to mean a group of peer schools that move around within their group, but as a whole stay in roughly the same rank over time. If that's the case, CCNP doesn't really make sense to me. Columbia and NYU have been T6 for the last 23 years, and Chicago has been T6 for 22 of the last 23 years. CCN have jumped around within their tier in every configuration, but Penn has never ranked higher than any of CCN.

Looking at just where schools are now, CCNP could make sense as a tier, but it would have to be CCNP, CCNB, CCNV, or CCNM, depending on the timeframe, which sort of defeats the purpose.

[kaiser]

I may be biased but I don't think you can place NYU in the same tier as Berkeley or UVA, or even Penn really.

Penn is awesome, but I also don't really buy the CCNP thing. The tier thing is sort of silly (as are USNWR rankings in general), but if you had to make them, there's a certain logic in HYS/CCN.

I've always taken the tiers to mean a group of peer schools that move around within their group, but as a whole stay in roughly the same rank over time. If that's the case, CCNP doesn't really make sense to me. Columbia and NYU have been T6 for the last 23 years, and Chicago has been T6 for 22 of the last 23 years. CCN have jumped around within their tier in every configuration, but Penn has never ranked higher than any of CCN.

Looking at just where schools are now, CCNP could make sense as a tier, but it would have to be CCNP, CCNB, CCNV, or CCNM, depending on the timeframe, which sort of defeats the purpose.

Look at the representation at the top firms (even accounting for differences in class size), and you will see why its CCN. Penn is undoubtedly an amazing school, and it often comes down to minor differences to distinguish these top schools, but you can see the difference in top firm representation between NYU and Penn, whereas you can barely see any difference between Columbia and NYU.

[rebexness]

Penn's employment #s are pretty far above at least MVD etc, however.

[goden]

Employers flocking away from USC to UCLA

in DROVES

[Nova]

Employers flocking away from USC to UCLA EMORY

in DROVES

[Tiago Splitter]

But seriously heads are rolling at USC right now. Fight on.

[kaiser]

Penn's employment #s are pretty far above at least MVD etc, however.

No doubt. Which is why the tiers thing is a silly conversation all around. Penn seems to largely place into NYC, and since NYC is where so many biglaw jobs are, of course that will boost up their employment numbers when compared to Duke, UVA, etc. But why does it matter whether it is more "similar" to the schools above it or the schools below it? 7 is 7 regardless, and its an excellent number to have.

[Mal Reynolds]

North, you need better golf clubs bro. Those things are sad. And your bag makes you look like an 80 year old.

[bjsesq]

THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING

[Dafaq]

Quick observation. Surprised at the number of guesses that nailed the Columbia/Chicago tie…nicely done…ditto the Duke/Mich tie at 10. On the downside a lot of folks had Penn and NY tied or Penn still tied with V.

[jn7]

Since I'm a 1L, it is the first time I have been in law school while rankings have come out...and I have to say...very anticlimactic. I really thought it'd be on CNN, maybe on Crossfire, a few analysts chucking mud at each other, something.

[Sgt Brody.]

Any info about UCI?

[rad lulz]

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