2018 Law School Rankings!

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Anonymous wrote:I doubt these are even real. There isn't anything up on the US News site.

This site has leaked them early and accurately 4 years in a row.

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AU Law has just sunk over the past decade... didn't it used to be in the 50s? Its now below 80!

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Anonymous wrote:This ranking is a joke for putting Wake Forest ahead of UNC and putting Mason in a tie with W&M. Any Virginia resident who takes Mason over W&M or North Carolina resident who take sWake over UNC is foolish.

doesn't wake place more in dc and nyc than unc?

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Anonymous wrote:AU Law has just sunk over the past decade... didn't it used to be in the 50s? Its now below 80!

au law is a joke - i worked with au grads working as house member front office interns!

not even committee interns but back-bench house personal staff interns!

AU as a school is a joke. it would make more sense to sell the school off and build affordable multi-family housing units in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:the problem gulc and gw run into is they are behind 13 other schools for jobs on their home turf.

other regional law schools such as alabama and ut-austin have their home turf to themselves. they are top dogs in their backyard.

not so for gulc/gw.

i think that plus their large class sizes are going to see their rankings fall in the future

Yup. GU particularly has a very large class; I believe largest in the nation. And given GU's financial situation, they really can't afford to shrink the class size to maintain the same caliber of student. These days you don't have to sink that low in the class from GU to have trouble getting a Biglaw job in a major market, although you certainly don't have to be the very top of the class either.

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AU grad here and gainfully employed.

One of the myriad of reasons AU law dropped so much these few years is because they've been trying to expand enrollment (lowering the bar) to pay for their gazillion dollar campus in Tenleytown next to the metro. On top of that, them putting so much focus and money in areas of law (international human rights) that doesn't have much job prospects doesn't help their job statistics, which directly affect their rankings.

What they should have really done is to not build the campus and use that money to fund programs that actually result in jobs/networks and rent out vacant office spaces (see e.g. Deweys vacant office) in the middle of town as actual lecture/classrooms. That way it woulld have pleasantly raised more internship employer eyebrows as well as the attention of adjunct faculty candidates. Oh well...

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Anonymous wrote:the problem gulc and gw run into is they are behind 13 other schools for jobs on their home turf.

other regional law schools such as alabama and ut-austin have their home turf to themselves. they are top dogs in their backyard.

not so for gulc/gw.

i think that plus their large class sizes are going to see their rankings fall in the future

Yup. GU particularly has a very large class; I believe largest in the nation. And given GU's financial situation, they really can't afford to shrink the class size to maintain the same caliber of student. These days you don't have to sink that low in the class from GU to have trouble getting a Biglaw job in a major market, although you certainly don't have to be the very top of the class either.

I've heard some firms require top-30%

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I doubt these are even real. There isn't anything up on the US News site.

I work in higher ed, and these rankings are accurate. They were released under embargo on March 7, with strict instructions not to publicly announce until March 14 at 12:01 p.m.

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Hmm. I graduated from WUSTL law about 20 years ago and when applying I got rejected by Emory, BU, and GW among others now ranked lower. Must be all that Busch beer $$.

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Anonymous wrote:Hmm. I graduated from WUSTL law about 20 years ago and when applying I got rejected by Emory, BU, and GW among others now ranked lower. Must be all that Busch beer $$.

do the WUSTL!

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It is beyond sad and pathetic that all of you care about the law school rankings at this stage of your careers.

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Anonymous wrote:It is beyond sad and pathetic that all of you care about the law school rankings at this stage of your careers.

Law firms care about where you went to law school until the day you die or retire. It matters for people's careers. It matters for who we hire as junior lawyers. It's not mere vanity.

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Anonymous wrote:It is beyond sad and pathetic that all of you care about the law school rankings at this stage of your careers.

+1000. Went to a lowly state school 25-plus years ago and have been in big law my entire career. Folks get their panties in a bunch over some pretty silly things, and this is high on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:Ouch! W&M lost 8 spots!

And they're tied with George Mason(aka ASSLAW). I wonder why they dropped so many slots?

I think they were in a tie for 33 with many other schools last year.

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Anonymous wrote:It is beyond sad and pathetic that all of you care about the law school rankings at this stage of your careers.

Law firms care about where you went to law school until the day you die or retire. It matters for people's careers. It matters for who we hire as junior lawyers. It's not mere vanity.

+1

Gotta love the anecdotal poster in big law from 25 years ago though. Fact is the profession breeds elitism.