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A Private School Education = NOT WORTH IT |
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but... |
| Date Posted: |
01/30/2000 |
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Top Law Schools, All-time USNWR ranking:
#1 Yale
#2 Harvard
#3 Stanford, Chicago, others
Representation of undergraduates at Yale Law School (#1):
Yale - 83
Harvard - 61
Stanford - 30
Princeton - 22
All others--below 20 (fewer than 5 students/year)
Representation* of undergraduates at Harvard Law School (#2):
Harvard - 217
Yale - 99
Stanford - 80
Duke - 63
Princeton - 58
Cornell - 54
Dartmouth - 54
UC Berkeley - 51
UPenn - 46
Brown - 43
All other schools: fewer than 40 (10/year).
Note: Columbia College had 31
enrolled at Harvard Law.
Note: Harvard Law School has about 3 times as many students as Yale Law
School, and is sometimes seen as a "safety school" to Yale Law. Yale Law is
the only Law School in the nation to have an admissions committee made up
of professors at the school itself.
If we take into account the fact that Yale has a smaller student body than
either Harvard and Stanford, it seems clear it does pretty well in terms of
placement into the #1 law school in the country. If you look at Harvard Law
school's class, you will see that Harvard is most represented school with
Yale placing second. Again, Yale is ahead of Stanford, even though Stanford
has a larger student body.
As far as other Ivy League standings, the other Ivies obviously do not do
as well as Yale and Harvard, but this is understandable because their
entering student body does not have the SAT average of Yale and Harvard,
and is not as distinguished in terms of accomplishments in high school.
As to the standings of various Ivy League institutions, I would give the
ranking:
1. Harvard and Yale, 3. Princeton, 4. Brown and Dartmouth, 6. Columbia and
Cornell, 8. UPenn
*http://www.law.harvard.edu/Admissions/JD_Admissions/colleges.htm |
| Message: |
Those rankings are fine. You've obviously got hard evidence. But those rankings are only good if you are looking at which schools you should go to if Law School is what you want in your future. Also, you need to look at undergraduate populations. A more appropriate gauge would be the number of students who go to these respective schools over the number of people who actually applied from these schools. In essence, your little analysis is pretty flawed. What was the point you were trying to make anyway? (I'm not being sarcastic) Were you using that methodology to rank schools?
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