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Cue all of the Duke Law students saying they go to a "T10." Like the UTexas students that still claim they go to a "T14."

Gotta love the BS micro-manipulation of the numbers to create some artificial movement in the rankings every year so that people still think these are relevant.

Let's see who can game the system slightly better than other people are gaming the system.

My school dropped...

MUST TRANSFER NAO!

fish52 wrote:Cue all of the Duke Law students saying they go to a "T10." Like the UTexas students that still claim they go to a "T14."

uh no. That's not at all like UT students saying they go to a T14. Since US News has been ranking law schools, Texas was in the T14 for 1 year. From the 2000s to 2009, Duke was in the top 10.

The T10 distinction is also a stupid one. It's not remotely as meaningful as the T14 distinction. So there's that

When was UTexas in the T14?

CourCour wrote:When was UTexas in the T14?

They popped into the T14 in 2011. It's the only year they dipped in. (it's the only school to get into the T14 that hasn't previously been a "Top 10" school actually. Ever other T14 has been in the T10 at some point in time, i believe)

FSU up to 45. I'm liking these ranking things until next year when we're back down to 50 something.

FUCK YOU GUYS WE'RE NOT EVEN RANKED

Arpedzio wrote:FSU up to 45. I'm liking these ranking things until next year when we're back down to 50 something.

mr.hands wrote:

fish52 wrote:Cue all of the Duke Law students saying they go to a "T10." Like the UTexas students that still claim they go to a "T14."

uh no. That's not at all like UT students saying they go to a T14. Since US News has been ranking law schools, Texas was in the T14 for 1 year. From the 2000s to 2009, Duke was in the top 10.

The T10 distinction is also a stupid one. It's not remotely as meaningful as the T14 distinction. So there's that

(Duke Law Student)

But really, my point is that the movement in the rankings is artificial, drummed up by USNWR to sell magazines.

Whoa, my law school's rankings actually went up even though our bar results were terrible.

I guess decreasing the incoming 1L class size actually worked.

fish52 wrote:
But really, my point is that the movement in the rankings is artificial, drummed up by USNWR to sell magazines.

And the worst part is, they don't even sell magazines anymore.

fish52 wrote: But really, my point is that the movement in the rankings is artificial, drummed up by USNWR to sell magazines.

Yeah that's not what you said. Don't moderate your argument after you're called out. Also, if i were a Duke Law student (which i'm not) i wouldn't say that the T10 distinction was meaningless. I would play it up.

The T10 distinction is useless. T14 is all that matters. compare Michigan's terrible stats with NU's.