2010 Princeton Review Law School Rankings: Most (and Least) Selective Admissions

Last week, I blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2010 edition of Best 172 Law Schools (with the University of Cincinnati College of Law on the cover).  The rankings are the result of Princeton Review's survey of 18,000 students at the 172 law schools, along with school statistics provided by administrators.

I have extracted from the individual profiles of the 172 law schools all of the available data to rank the schools in six categories. I will report each day on one of the ranking categories.

Admissions Selectivity Rating: How competititve 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 enrolled in the law school. We collect this information through a survey that law school administrators completed for the Fall 2009 entering class.

Here are the law schools that are the most and least selective in admissions among the 172 law schools profiled in the book (an asterisk indicates that the school did not supply the Princeton Review with the requested statistical information):

	School	Score		School	Score
1	Harvard	99	148	Nova	68
	Stanford	99		South Dakota	68
	Yale	99		Southern	68
4	Columbia	98	151	Ave Maria	67
	Pennsylvania	98		New England	67
	UC-Berkeley	98		Washburn	67
	Virginia	98		Western New England	67
8	Chicago	97	155	La Verne	66
	Michigan	97		Roger Williams	66
	Northwestern	97	157	St. Thomas (Miami)	65
	NYU	97		Widener-Delaware	65
12	Geo. Washington	96		Widener-Harrisburg	65
	Georgetown	96	160	Faulkner	64
	SMU	96		Mississippi College	64
	UCLA	96	162	Appalachian	63
16	Cornell	95		Dayton	63
	Maryland	95	164	Oklahoma City	62
	USC	95	165	Thomas Cooley	61
	Texas	95	166	Alabama*	60
20	Duke	94		Colorado*	60
	Fordham	94		Connecticut*	60
	Vanderbilt	94		Phoenix*	60
23	BYU	93		Syracuse*	60
	Georgia	93		Touro*	60
	Notre Dame	93		Washington (St. Louis)*	60

For prior years' rankings, see:

• 2009 Princeton Review Admissions Selectivity Rankings
• 2008 Princeton Review Admissions Selectivity Rankings
• 2007 Princeton Review Admissions Selectivity Rankings