Althouse: "Above the Law leaked the latest edition of the U.S. News law school rankings last week..."

March 13, 2019

"Above the Law leaked the latest edition of the U.S. News law school rankings last week..."

Wow! I didn't even notice. I really am retired.

"... but now the actual publication date is upon us, and the 2020 rankings are officially out. We’re very pleased to announce that all of our leaked information has been confirmed (with the exception, of course, of the Penn State schools and Rutgers, all three of which were curiously absent from the leaked data; we know their ranks, and will get to them in a moment)."

Above the Law blogs.

14 comments:

MadisonMan said...: It's important to know these rankings so you know who/where to bribe to get your kid into law school.; 3/13/19, 10:12 AM
rhhardin said...: Kid to Princeton Admissions Officer: Speaking of rejection, don't you reject 99.9% of your applicants? Don't you just want to drum up applications to keep your number-one position on U.S. News & World Report?
Kid's Father: Actually, I think it's number two this year, right?
Admission Officer: Yes, but...
Kid's Father: Um, I'm sure it's an aberration.

Admission (2013) Tina Fey Paul Rudd; 3/13/19, 10:16 AM
rhhardin said...: Scott Adams says Lori Loughlin should be named mother of the year.; 3/13/19, 10:20 AM
gspencer said...: Rutgers Law School should have really shot up in the rankings since one of its prestigious graduates is now running for President. "See what can happen to you when you get your JD from Rutgers" reads the pitching brochure to would-be students.

So impressed with this Rutgers grad was Matthew Walther that he recently wrote in theweek.com "The Genius of Elizabeth Warren."

And in an ugly, rather selfish sense, I suppose she does have genius. Coming from the sticks of Oklahoma, basic low to middle class life status, with middling grades, going to a middling college and a middling law school (that was then, Rutgers; you're in the big league now), having less than middling “scholarship,” then finding the key – stealing racial identity – that turned all the locks allowing her to enter a world unknown, taking her to the teaching halls of Harvard Law, to the US Senate, to a 14,000,000 net worth, to a bid for POTUS.

All based on a lie and theft.

Yeah, I suppose that's genius of some sort.; 3/13/19, 10:20 AM
Jimmy said...: Schools were ranked by the amount of debt that students take on to become..... a lawyer.; 3/13/19, 10:25 AM
madAsHell said...: So, it seems that you can buy your way into a prestigious school.

It makes me kinda wonder about these lists?; 3/13/19, 10:34 AM
Bill Peschel said...: "Don't you just want to drum up applications to keep your number-one position on U.S. News & World Report?"

True, true, true. When my son hit 1540 on the SATs and one shy of a perfect score on the ACT, he got letters from the top schools inviting him to apply. Teams of admissions officials came to the Harrisburg, Pa., area (in one panel: Duke, Stanford, Georgetown, and Yale/Harvard), encouraging us to apply and pointing out the free ride you'd get if you're accepted.; 3/13/19, 10:39 AM
Bill Peschel said...: Amendment: when I said "teams of admissions officials" I don't mean they came to my son. I meant they'd hold a public meeting at a hotel conference room and give presentations.; 3/13/19, 10:40 AM
Wince said...: The lack of part-time programs demonstrates that adults with perspective on how the real works outside the bubble of the legal profession are not welcome in the replication process.; 3/13/19, 10:40 AM
mccullough said...: Unless you get a full scholarship or into a top three school, law school isn’t worth the money. Hasn’t been for awhile. You’re just taking in debt that will be very difficult to pay off so that law school administrators and faculty don’t have to work as lawyers.

It’s a scam.; 3/13/19, 12:33 PM
Richard Dolan said...: You may be retired, but people are still quoting for your lawprof cred. Came across this recently in an article by William Voegeli in the Claremont Review ("Conservatism after Trump"):

A 2018 New York Times article, for example, lamented that conservatives have “weaponized” the First Amendment, whose defense was once the raison d’etre of liberal activists in general, and the American Civil Liberties Union in particular. Though he used to have “the standard liberal view of civil liberties,” one law professor explained, he has now come to realize “that it’s a mistake to think of free speech as an effective means to accomplish a more just society.” The Occam’s Razor explanation for this shift is that free speech “was only ever a means to an end” for liberals, in the words of law professor and blogger Ann Althouse. “When they got their free speech, made their arguments, and failed to win over the American people, and when in fact the speech from their opponents seemed too successful, they switched to the repression of speech, because the end was never freedom.”; 3/13/19, 1:49 PM
Darleen said...: My stepson is an L2 at Berkeley which is tied with Duke, the other law school that accepted him.

As one of those dreaded white males, he had to work his tuchas off in high school, undergrad (University of Portland) to get there.; 3/13/19, 2:55 PM
iowan2 said...: The school you get into has nothing to do with your earnings. It's power. The caste you rise to. From that caste comes the few that tell the rest of us what is proper.; 3/13/19, 4:06 PM
Ryan said...: Law school was totally worth it for me and I didnt get a scholarship or go to a top 3 school. (Went to Wisconsin and paid out of state tuition.); 3/13/19, 7:47 PM