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Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:33 pm
by Rory1987
Or Schools that should be ranked higher and/or lower…
Underrated/Should be ranked higher:
UC Hastings
Fordham
Texas
University of Washington
Temple
GW


Overrated/Should be ranked lower:

GULC
Emory
Iowa
American
Cardozo
W&L

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:37 pm
by MC Southstar
Cornell is underrated for its hotel management program.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:38 pm
by Jules Winnfield
Some of the schools in your "overrated" list should be in your "underrated" list. I'm just sayin'...

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:38 pm
by Kronk
Overrated:

Columbia (declining TTT, NYU stealing all their professors)
Harvard (degree mill)
GULC (see above)

Underrated:

Cornell (great location)
Boalt (practical hands-on lawyer training in CA as opposed to Stanford's airy-fairy approach)

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:39 pm
by holydonkey
Somebody set up us the bomb.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:39 pm
by baboon309
Rory1987 wrote:Or Schools that should be ranked higher and/or lower…
Underrated/Should be ranked higher:
UC Hastings
Fordham
Texas
University of Washington
Temple
GW


Overrated/Should be ranked lower:

GULC
Emory
Iowa
American
Cardozo
W&L
Underrated/Should be ranked higher:
CHICAGO KENT (beat IUB)
LOYOLA CHICAGO (beat IUB)



Overrated/Should be ranked lower:
IUB
UNC
TTTTTTTTULANE

Check out the new NLJ data!

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:40 pm
by oneforship
Overrated:

Northwestern Polytech College of Law for Geriatrics

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:40 pm
by MC Southstar
baboon309 wrote: Underrated/Should be ranked higher:
CHICAGO KENT (beat IUB)
LOYOLA CHICAGO (beat IUB)



Overrated/Should be ranked lower:
IUB
UNC
TTTTTTTTULANE

Check out the new NLJ data!
Those schools are all inherently overrated since they are called law schools.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:40 pm
by D. H2Oman
Great thread idea, I was just thinking about this. Here are mine:


Overrated/should be ranked lower:

UC Hastings
Fordham
Texas
University of Washington
Temple
GW



Underrated/Should be ranked higher:

GULC
Emory
Iowa
American
Cardozo
W&L

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:41 pm
by panda
Kronk and MC have TCR

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:41 pm
by JuTMSY4
Depending on which rankings you're talking about, Cooley might be overrated

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:41 pm
by oneforship
oneforship wrote:Overrated:

Northwestern Polytech College of Law for Geriatrics
Underrated:

NU -- Crushed the NLJ250.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:42 pm
by MC Southstar
The colts are overrated, they always blow it in the end.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:42 pm
by D. H2Oman
Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:43 pm
by Rawlsian
oneforship wrote:
oneforship wrote:Overrated:

Northwestern Polytech College of Law for Geriatrics
Underrated:

NU -- Crushed the NLJ250.
Along that vein...
underrated:
Vandy

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:43 pm
by D. H2Oman
D. H2Oman wrote:Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class
No, way idiot. Those schools look beyond the numbers. One or two LSAT points don't really make a difference anyways. Boalt and Cornell look at the whole applicant.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:44 pm
by Helmholtz
Overrated:

Stanford (seriously, where is this school? nobody knows, but I think it's in California, who cares)
Berkeley (California, what else do I need to say)
Chicago (because it's a TTT state public school)
Vanderbilt (good luck living in the south the rest of your life, yuck)
Duke (Ann Coulter went there)
Michigan (a half hour drive from Detroit, seriously, who's idea was that?)
UCLA (tuition will be $70k/yr by 2015, I'm calling it)

Underrated:

Yale (they're great, they literally give out diamonds to students)
Harvard (should be tied at #0 with Yale)
NYU (yeah, another public state school, but I like their hustle and Obama used to teach there, so....)
Georgetown (more classmates than you can count, how awesome is that)

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:45 pm
by oneforship
oneforship wrote:
oneforship wrote:Overrated:

Northwestern Polytech College of Law for Geriatrics
Underrated:

NU -- Crushed the NLJ250.
Dude, seriously? Those %s are out of date already, and seriously skewed. NU is obviously the worst T11.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:45 pm
by D. H2Oman
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class
No, way idiot. Those schools look beyond the numbers. One or two LSAT points don't really make a difference anyways. Boalt and Cornell look at the whole applicant.
LOL, GTFO bro. That's all a bullshit way of justifying their sub-par numbers.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:46 pm
by Rawlsian
Helmholtz wrote:Overrated:

Stanford (seriously, where is this school? nobody knows, but I think it's in California, who cares)
Berkeley (California, what else do I need to say)
Chicago (because it's a TTT state public school)
Vanderbilt (good luck living in the south the rest of your life, yuck)
Michigan (Ann Coulter went there)
Michigan (a half hour drive from Detroit, seriously, who's idea was that?)
UCLA (tuition will be $70k/yr by 2015, I'm calling it)

Underrated:

Yale (they're great, they literally give out diamonds to students)
Harvard (should be tied at #0 with Yale)
NYU (yeah, another public state school, but I like their hustle and Obama used to teach there, so....)
Georgetown (more classmates than you can count, how awesome is that)
Fixed.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:46 pm
by MC Southstar
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class
No, way idiot. Those schools look beyond the numbers. One or two LSAT points don't really make a difference anyways. Boalt and Cornell look at the whole applicant.
LOL, GTFO bro. That's all a bullshit way of justifying their sub-par numbers.
You're creeping me out.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:48 pm
by panda
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class
No, way idiot. Those schools look beyond the numbers. One or two LSAT points don't really make a difference anyways. Boalt and Cornell look at the whole applicant.
poasts acknowledged. uhh.. both of them. now you can stop talking to yourself.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:48 pm
by D. H2Oman
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class
No, way idiot. Those schools look beyond the numbers. One or two LSAT points don't really make a difference anyways. Boalt and Cornell look at the whole applicant.
LOL, GTFO bro. That's all a bullshit way of justifying their sub-par numbers.
You disgust me. It's people like you that have led to this ridiculous overly number focused process of law school admission. Because Berkeley's LSAT median is a point or two lower, that means they are producing less capable lawyers?????? That's absurd, and racist.

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:50 pm
by ViP
Overrated: US News

Underrated: Choosing what's best for you

Re: Overrated and Underrated Schools (In your opinion)

Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:52 pm
by UF Gators
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:
D. H2Oman wrote:Boalt and Cornell are overrated, look at the numbers of their latest entering class
No, way idiot. Those schools look beyond the numbers. One or two LSAT points don't really make a difference anyways. Boalt and Cornell look at the whole applicant.
LOL, GTFO bro. That's all a bullshit way of justifying their sub-par numbers.
You need help.