Thursday, March 30, 2006
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:
- Monday: Academic Experience
- Tuesday: Professors Interesting
- Wednesday: Professors Accessible
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