Princeton Review's Law School Rankings: Admissions Selectivity

With U.S. News & World Report set to release its new 2007 law school rankings on April 1, I want to return to a subject I previously blogged:  The Princeton Review's book, Best 159 Law Schools.  This week, I will focus on five of the quantitative rankings based on a survey of more than 15,000 students and statistics provided by law school administrators.

Admissions Selectivity Rating:  How competitive admission is at the law school, on a scale of 60 to 99.  Several factors determine this rating, including LSAT scores and the average undergraduate GPA of entering 1L students, the percentage of applicants accepted, and the percentage of accepted applicants who enroll in the law school.  We collect this information through a survey that law school administrators complete for the Fall 2004 entering class.

Here is the Princeton Review's ranking of the Top 29 law schools based on Admissions Selectivity (and their scores):

1.  Yale	99
1.  Harvard	99
3.  Stanford	98
4.  Penn	97
4.  Columbia	97
6.  Chicago	96
6.  California- Berkeley	96
6.  Northwestern	96
9.  Virginia	95
9.  UCLA	95
9.  Texas	95
12. Georgetown	94
12. Michigan	94
12. NYU	94
15. Duke	93
15. Cornell	93
15. BYU	93
18. Notre Dame	92
18. Fordham	92
18. George Mason	92
21. Vanderbilt	91
21. Baylor	91
23. North Carolina	91
24. Washington & Lee	90
24. Boston College	90
24. USC	90
24. Maryland	90
24. George Washington	90
24. University of Washington	90

Princeton's Review's Law School Rankings:

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• Tuesday:  Professors Interesting
• Wednesday:  Professors Accessible