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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I take issue with posters [b]claiming a cause and effect relationship between less demand for law students[/b] in the early 2000s and the rise in merit aid.  I think, and apparently the law schools dropping out of US news agree, that it’s the pressure to enroll students with sky high LSAT scores to maintain and bring up their ranking that’s led to the bidding war.

The worst example is Wash U.  It buys law students more than just about any other top 25 school, and year after year it climbs the rankings.  Schools like it are gonna take a hit if the rankings become less important.  There’s no way Wash U is as good of a law school as its current ranking would suggest.  It’s not Vanderbilt, Texas or UCLA for Pete’s sake.  Cut me a break. [/quote]

I posted this above and I was told this directly by the Dean of a t-14 law school.  You should embrace the power of “and.”  It is true that the rankings are everything, and it is also true that the lower number of students applying meant there were fewer applicants with high stats and that led to bidding wars. In fact, for example, the first year this happened, Georgetown took the same number of students as before and dropped out of the top 14 because they had to lower their standards to do so. That year, Texas cut the size of their entering class and moved up.  After that, all schools started competing for the top students. Last year was a record year for applicants to law schools, so it remains to be seen whether this will still be true, or at least to same degree.

I doubt the rankings will become less important. USNWR has other sources for data and as long as the numbers still matter, I think the t-3 through t-20 schools will continue to see the top three refusing to join the race as an opportunity. [/quote]

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