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[allardblah]

i also got the new ones...first logged into the old ones then tried the cntrol f5 and they resorted. may be a glitch though, and not the correct ones.  may also be a smart way to market the online version and get more sales.

[letsgoblue2007]

OMG, my top choice school dropped 20 ranks.  WTF?

was it Miami?

[flyaway]

If reputation rankings matter so much (according to that Loyola prof who wrote the paper), how does Penn stay ranked so high, when it has a worse reputation than Michigan, Virginia, and Berkeley?

[daydreamer]

Penn tied with Chicago is some screwed up sh*t.

NYU > Columbia is too

[iscoredawaitlist]

By the way, on the OP I took out the information people will have to eventually pay for. IT didn't seem right. I know that people will doubt the information on that basis, but there it is.

[kirkcameronsgf]

Wow, OU jumped up quite a bit.

[Johnny Stuffs His Mouth]

People still care about these things?

Why does a few positions bump or drop really matter? Seriously. Explain, please.

i don't really does from a year-to-year basis. I do find it interesting from a game standpoint. at least my preferences aren't changed a bit. I'd still take Michigan over Penn, Chicago or the two NY schools (if, theoretically i could get into ANY of those). I'd still take Texas over USC.

You have to wonder though, because a huge drop can certainly affect the amount of applications a school receives in the next cycle. A drop from Top 30 to Top 40 can definitely change whether people consider applying there.

I have another theory. Many people are waiting on the new rankings to choose their school. Is it possible that having a higher rank this year (say, NYU>CLS) might cause borderline candidates to choose NYU over CLS, which might lower NYU's LSAT/GPA enough that CLS vaults NYU next year? As an example.

[Juice]

San Diego - HUGE drop. Now at risk of dropping out of the top 100. Who would have guessed....

[Yankees Fan]

OMG, my top choice school dropped 20 ranks.  WTF?

was it Miami?

No, San Diego.  Miami dropped to 70, USD to 85.  Doesn't make sense to me...

[Sooner]

8 schools in the top 10 have to settle for ties. Stupid.

Current methodology sucks. Everyone knows NYU is not > Columbia and Chicago, Penn is not equal to Chicago, and Duke is not equal to UVA.

The reputation ratings are reality.