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[quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting analysis:

The ATL Top 50 ranking isn’t trying to emulate other rankings out there. As opposed to privileging a law school’s “inputs” — GPAs and LSAT scores — we put our thumb on the school’s outputs and reward schools offering students the best return on investment. So Yale might be a better law school in the abstract, but that doesn’t mean it’s giving you the best bang for your educational buck compared to another traditional “T14” school like Duke.

But here’s the thing… Yale and Harvard and Stanford used to top our ranking too. The initial ATL Top 50 ranking placed the HYS triad in the top three places. The methodology hasn’t really changed over that run, so how did we get here?

It appears to be a combination of schools upping their job placement game and the vagaries of cost of living. Taking an isolated comparison, Duke’s all-in cost of attendance is $337,238 per Law School Transparency, Stanford is going to run someone $383,937. Meanwhile, Duke has a 93.6 percent employment score and a 2.4 percent underemployment score while Stanford has an 82.6 percent employment score and a 12 percent underemployment score.

This trend is more interesting to me than the 2022 snapshot. The ATL methodology isn’t intentionally detrimental to the HYS schools… but from the start of the rankings until today those schools have made choices that dragged them from the podium. That says something about the philosophy guiding the schools right now.

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