The recent release of the 2018 U.S. News tax rankings reminded me that it has been about a decade since I first started applying to law schools. (I’m old!)
The most dramatic change in the last 10 years is that law schools started reporting much more accurate employment statistics.
I applied to law school in very last wild west years when would-be law students had to rely on the often fraudulent promises of law school admissions officers and long-gone law student blogs.
And, of course, there was the U.S. News rankings list that continues to hold schools hostage.
I ultimately picked a relatively safe choice: a top regional school that dominates its metro’s legal market. However, many of my friends and fellow bloggers were not so lucky.
Here are some recent (and not-so-recent) articles if you want to go down the law school ranking rabbit-hole.
- “The Value of the U.S. News Rankings,” Law School Transparency
- “Visualizing the 2018 U.S. News law school rankings–the way they should be presented,” Derek T. Muller, Excess of Democracy
- “Yale Law has beaten Harvard for the past 23 years in US News rankings — and it’s not entirely clear why,” Abby Jackson, Business Insider
- “This law school ranking system is much better than U.S. News,” David Bernstein, The Washington Post
- “A De Gustibus Approach to Ranking Law Schools,” Christopher J. Ryan Jr. and Brian L. Frye, SSRN
- “Tobin on the U.S. News Tax Rankings: Why Aren’t NYU, Florida & Georgetown Tied for #1?,” Paul Caron, LawProf Blog
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