Comments on: The Big Law School Shuffle and the US News Rankings http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/the_big_law_sch.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Mon, 22 Mar 2010 00:56:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: crazy idea http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/the_big_law_sch.html/comment-page-1#comment-59771 crazy idea Tue, 16 May 2006 18:48:50 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/03/the-big-law-school-shuffle-and-the-us-news-rankings.html#comment-59771 why don't law schools use mean LSAT, rather than median LSAT? wouldn't mean LSAT be a more telling statistic? why don’t law schools use mean LSAT, rather than median LSAT? wouldn’t mean LSAT be a more telling statistic?

]]> By: Emily http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/the_big_law_sch.html/comment-page-1#comment-59770 Emily Sun, 02 Apr 2006 00:53:21 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/03/the-big-law-school-shuffle-and-the-us-news-rankings.html#comment-59770 Too true that it's bizarre to have so much emphasis placed on these rankings by the law school community. Perhaps people shouldn't take them so seriously. On the other hand, GW moved up a point. Score! Too true that it’s bizarre to have so much emphasis placed on these rankings by the law school community. Perhaps people shouldn’t take them so seriously.

On the other hand, GW moved up a point. Score!

]]> By: Anthony http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/the_big_law_sch.html/comment-page-1#comment-59769 Anthony Sat, 01 Apr 2006 05:52:28 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/03/the-big-law-school-shuffle-and-the-us-news-rankings.html#comment-59769 "Yet the legal community and law school RANK students." Most law schools (at least top ones) don't rank their students, or only release one or two general cutoff points ("Top 25% in Section Y is a 3.4X GPA" "The cutoff for summa cum laude this year was 3.8X"). “Yet the legal community and law school RANK students.”

Most law schools (at least top ones) don’t rank their students, or only release one or two general cutoff points (“Top 25% in Section Y is a 3.4X GPA” “The cutoff for summa cum laude this year was 3.8X”).

]]> By: mobius http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/the_big_law_sch.html/comment-page-1#comment-59768 mobius Sat, 01 Apr 2006 04:52:04 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/03/the-big-law-school-shuffle-and-the-us-news-rankings.html#comment-59768 "We love to gripe about the US News rankings -- and with good reason, for the rankings are stupid" Yet the legal community and law school RANK students... with an arbitrary forced curved of all things. It's a stupid and hypocritical argument to say that rankings don't mean anything and then use rankings for everything else. “We love to gripe about the US News rankings — and with good reason, for the rankings are stupid”

Yet the legal community and law school RANK students… with an arbitrary forced curved of all things.

It’s a stupid and hypocritical argument to say that rankings don’t mean anything and then use rankings for everything else.

]]> By: Luke http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2006/03/the_big_law_sch.html/comment-page-1#comment-59767 Luke Fri, 31 Mar 2006 20:26:02 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2006/03/the-big-law-school-shuffle-and-the-us-news-rankings.html#comment-59767 I mostly agree with this, but I will add that the rankings issue of US News actually costs $10, which, while still cheap, is relatively expensive for a single magazine issue. I mostly agree with this, but I will add that the rankings issue of US News actually costs $10, which, while still cheap, is relatively expensive for a single magazine issue.

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