Schools that will drop in the 2008 US NEWS rankings...

[Captain]

When will the rankings come out, or when do they usually come out?

End of March-ish

Just in time to affect all of our final decisions then. Awesome.

PS -- UPenn/GW, I don't care where you rank. Seriously. Let me in, I'm knocking and while it is unseasonably warm out, its still rude for you to not answer the door.

[HeckBoy]

Tulane will drop ever so slightly I think. SMU might as well. Houston will continue downward as will Baylor.

what are we basing these drops on? since i applied to SMU & Houston and they're among my front runners, i'm wondering what implications if any they'll have on my admission/decision possibilities

[Captain]

Tulane will drop ever so slightly I think. SMU might as well. Houston will continue downward as will Baylor.

what are we basing these drops on? since i applied to SMU & Houston and they're among my front runners, i'm wondering what implications if any they'll have on my admission/decision possibilities

Tulane's drop is based on the hurricane stuff. The new rankings will be based on the first post-hurricane numbers for them. They'll surely recover again, but they HAD TO have taken a hit.

[prelaw200]

I'm interested to see if GW will fall back into the 20+ range.  It is a little strange that they have not made last years admission stats avaialable on their website.

[HeckBoy]

so what's really gonna be causing these rankings shake-ups? higher/lower LSAT/GPA stats? does this mean certain schools will be accepting lower stat'd applicants? or simply less higher stat'd people will enroll in some of them?

[bamf]

I think GW will stay.  I'm more interested to see a change at WUSTL.
I'd also like it if BC would pass BU again.

[General2010]

Predictions for Texas? If I remember correctly, the 25th percentile GPA was lower on the 2006 class profile than in past years.

[Boss]

There were quite a few schools who dropped their LSAT/GPA from previous years.  Did any school note an increase?

[theprofessor]

Northwestern, Chicago, Columbia, and Penn all showed an increase for this year's incoming class. This list is not meant to be complete; those are just the ones I know off the top of my head.

[prelaw200]

A drop or increase will only affect the rankings if the median (now calculated by averaging the 75th and 25th percentiles) changes, which usually takes a pretty big shift.

I know USC and Vandy's 25th percentiles went up, and Fordham's went down but I think their medians remained the same.