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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why are we debating law schools?
Yale is perceived as the #1 law school.
Whether it deserves that status or not is questionable [/quote]

To be fair, why does Yale always perform the same or worse than Harvard in peer surveys if it is axiomatic that it is perceived that way?  [/quote]

Yale is second tier along with Stanford.[/quote]

Harvard's peers and others may rate Harvard's law school the same or higher as Yale and others for all the reasons they may do so, and in fact Yale in particular has seen their peer reputation among academics slip quite a bit for a few years, but that is NOT why US News has ranked them #1.  They are ranked #1, and they will always be ranked #1 because of their expenditure per student.  Barring some pretty major changes in US News' formula, which is admittedly possible given that it's entirely arbitrary, and given that Harvard's endowment is subject to the same market forces as everyone else's endowment and is not likely to start over-performing, this just can't change.  It doesn't really matter how amazing their faculty and its scholarship is, or the library, or the academic prowess of the students, or the gym, cafeteria, or whatever else people start fixating on.   [/quote]

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