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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a retired lawyer following up on the Harvard poster’s criticism of the OP.  I’m not a Harvard guy.

[b]I agree with the criticism.  I think the OP is out of touch and that much of what he says is demonstrably wrong.  I don’t think, for example, that Harvard is now going to start awarding merit scholarships to maintain or move up in the rankings, [/b]

and neither will the other schools who have boycotted the publication.  One of their core stated reasons for the boycott was that it led too many good law schools to award merit aid at the expense of need based aid and that was bad for the system.  The boycotting schools aren’t about to reverse course now.

Interestingly, OP uses Chicago as an example of an elite school that “clearly” gives merit aid, while failing to mention that it’s also the one elite school that didn’t boycott the rankings.  So it’s the exception that proves the rule actually.

The one thing I will disagree with the Harvard guy about is his claim that Harvard has always been the number one most in demand law school. US news ranking or otherwise, the “number one” distinction belongs to Yale and has for a long time. It is without question, the nation’s most selective law, school and when given the choice between Yale and Harvard, the majority of students accepted to both pick Yale. That is a fact, not conjecture. [/quote]

+1. Harvard does not need USNWR and doesn’t care if it dropped from 3 or 4 to 5. [b] It’s still considered the finest law school in the world.[/b] Dean Spitzer is out of touch. He was Dean at USC (not a law school I would pay for) from 2000-2006 and is 71 or 72.  A lot has changed in the law school world during COViD.  Fwiw I got in to Yale, Harvard, Chicago, UCLA, Stanford and Minnesota and picked Harvard, precisely for the reasons good center above (size, reputation, law review clout, contacts, federal clerkships, diversity, foreign students, etc.) My friends at Yale were miserable. And they did not go on and teach. The fact that USNWR has had it at no. 1 for 30 odd years is baffling to most and actually never discussed because no one cares. It’s time to scrap a ranking service that was designed to drive up advertising and subscription revenues for a failed magazine. All if the law schools which pulled out did the right thing. It’s obsolete.[/quote]

More accurate phrasing: Harvard Law School is considered to be among the finest law schools in the world.

Yale, Stanford, Chicago, & Columbia are also among that group. There are probably a few others as well.[/quote]

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