Cooley: one of the greats

[thinkbig]

Cooley law school is better ranked than Stanford, Chicago, Berkeley.......

http://www.cooley.edu/rankings/overall2008.htm

[Crimson:devil(red)]

Check out these rankings which are derived from a complex algorithm which depends entirely on my own personal opinion:

1.           Tulane
2(Tie).  All other law schools

[gzl]

I read on another thread that Cooley used factors like the square footage of their library to come up with their rankings.  I thought it was a bit of sarcasm. It wasn't.  Some of the factors they consider (not sure how it's all weighted):

Total Volumes in Library
Total Titles in Library
Total Serial Subscriptions
Total of Professional Librarians
Library Hours per Week with Professional Staff
Total Library Hours per Week
Library Seating Capacity
Number of Networked Computers Available for Use by Students
Library Total Square Footage


I'm disappointed in Cooley's lack of inventiveness.  If they considered the number of janitors employed in library clean up, or the total surface area of desk-top space available to use for study... or SOMETHING, I'm sure they could have placed themselves above Harvard and the like.

[cpierce11]

The rating system at Cooley is just bogus. It totally different then the US News rankings. It is referred to as Judging the Law Schools now in its Tenth Edition. What is even more messed about it that the people that made this ranking according to Cooley website is Thomas E Brennan and Don LeDuc. Do you know who Don LeDuc is? He is dean of Cooley Law School and is involved in the rankings that they use.

[Ninja1]

Cooley's rankings are the principle reason most people talk *&^% about them. FFT.

[MauveAvenger]

I read on another thread that Cooley used factors like the square footage of their library to come up with their rankings.  I thought it was a bit of sarcasm. It wasn't.  Some of the factors they consider (not sure how it's all weighted):

Total Volumes in Library
Total Titles in Library
Total Serial Subscriptions
Total of Professional Librarians
Library Hours per Week with Professional Staff
Total Library Hours per Week
Library Seating Capacity
Number of Networked Computers Available for Use by Students
Library Total Square Footage


I'm disappointed in Cooley's lack of inventiveness.  If they considered the number of janitors employed in library clean up, or the total surface area of desk-top space available to use for study... or SOMETHING, I'm sure they could have placed themselves above Harvard and the like.

I didn't believe that seating capacity was a factor. Then I checked.

Library Seating Capacity - To study, a student needs a place to sit. The more crowded a library, the more likely it will not be able to serve as a resource to the entire student body.

That's their actual explanation.

[Ninja1]

I read on another thread that Cooley used factors like the square footage of their library to come up with their rankings.  I thought it was a bit of sarcasm. It wasn't.  Some of the factors they consider (not sure how it's all weighted):

Total Volumes in Library
Total Titles in Library
Total Serial Subscriptions
Total of Professional Librarians
Library Hours per Week with Professional Staff
Total Library Hours per Week
Library Seating Capacity
Number of Networked Computers Available for Use by Students
Library Total Square Footage


I'm disappointed in Cooley's lack of inventiveness.  If they considered the number of janitors employed in library clean up, or the total surface area of desk-top space available to use for study... or SOMETHING, I'm sure they could have placed themselves above Harvard and the like.

I didn't believe that seating capacity was a factor. Then I checked.

Library Seating Capacity - To study, a student needs a place to sit. The more crowded a library, the more likely it will not be able to serve as a resource to the entire student body.

That's their actual explanation.

Also an easy factor to boost when you have 3 campuses...

Cooley does make for a good study in how you can game stats to make them say whatever you want.

[JDat45]

Check out these rankings which are derived from a complex algorithm which depends entirely on my own personal opinion:

1.           Tulane
2(Tie).  All other law schools

Looks at Crimson's Avatar then exclaims: HA!!! 

[JDat45]

I've never heard of Cooley before joining this board. I just visited their webpage, and I actually feel sad for them. How embarrassing...the factors they use to justify their "ranking".

I cry for Cooley, I cry 

[nerfco]

There have been a couple times I went to the library to study, and could not find a seat (or at least, my own table--there are two chairs per table). I wish I had gone to Cooley; I would have had a place to sit.

But seriously, their rankings are terrible, and I feel bad for any students mislead by their rankings to choose Cooley over better schools, or to attend law school in the first place based on their Cooley acceptance and its rank.