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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you care deeply about the rankings (and I don't know why you would), Spivey Consulting is the go-to authority for information.

His speculation is that some of the changes USNWR made to this year's formula produced such radically different rankings that they had to delay their release until they could further tweak the formula to find a metric that would help put them back to result closer to past years (Spivey speculates it has something to do with employment after 2 years)

[b]If US News is reverse engineering its formula to get the rankings to come out the way they want[/b] (and evidence strongly suggests they are), it certainly underscores how useless these rankings really are

Also congrats to UVA and Notre Dame for leaning into their Federalist Society chapters, with the resultant very high proportion of students getting clerkships with conservative federal judges and boosting their rankings via that metric. Can the ASSOL at George Mason be far behind? [/quote]

Of course they do this.  College rankings are among the worst kinds of pseudoscience.   We can all agree Yale Law is better than University of Arkansas School of Law.  But pretending to discern among these law schools by rank ordering them is folly.  It’s worse than useless, it perverts the incentives of what law schools do.  I’m glad that my law school dropped in rankings. Chasing them distorts their missions.  [/quote]

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