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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Law school rankings are a slightly different kettle of fish. The T14 virtually never change, and every law firm knows what those are, so either way, not a huge impact.

From another angle, however, this makes one wonder what Yale feels it needs to hide.[/quote]

It probably has to do with the employment category. Reading the methodology, certain jobs score highest. Yale places a lot of clerks (short term) and send graduates to academia (depending on the job, no JD or bar passage required) [/quote]

Judicial clerks typically count as long-term employment in USNews as long as it's for a term of approx 1 year or more.  Any job that is JD Advantage FT LT, gets the same credit as a Bar Required/Aniticipated FT LT Job.

I live and breathe these law school stats.  Yale's issue is with "law school funded" fellowships that are otherwise Bar Required, FT, LT, not getting full credit.  Yale has a history of these fellowships and has many of them.  They are getting dinged for those.  Many law schools started doing the law school funded thing in the 2011-2012 period when we were in a recession, so Yale didn't get hit as hard, but now many schools don't do them anymore.

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