Princeton Review Law School Rankings

[Alamo]

Discuss . . .

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/10/princeton-rev-7.html

[whartonn]

Stanford at 24 was funny

[StudentUVA]

This is just laughable.

[Lindbergh]

Actually a relevant ranking -- given that it measures students' actual experiences at the schools.

I wouldn't elevate it above USNews, but I might refer to it when deciding between comparable programs, and I certainly wouldn't compare it to the Cooley rankings, which was simply created to inflate Cooley's rep.

[Alamo]

My favorite factor going into the rankings has to be study hours.  A few samples:

1. Cornell: 5.97 hrs/day
9. Cooley: 5.37 hrs/day
147. UVA: 3.77 hrs/day
151. Harvard
159. NYU
163. Yale
168. USC
169. Texas

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/10/princeton-rev-2.html

What I can't figure out--does more study hours increase or decrease a school's ranking, and why?

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My favorite factor going into the rankings has to be study hours.  A few samples:

1. Cornell: 5.97 hrs/day
9. Cooley: 5.37 hrs/day
147. UVA: 3.77 hrs/day
151. Harvard
159. NYU
163. Yale
168. USC
169. Texas

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/10/princeton-rev-2.html

What I can't figure out--does more study hours increase or decrease a school's ranking, and why?

Not calculated in the rankings, apparently. From the website:

I present here Princeton Review's Top 50 Law Schools, determined by (1) focusing on those five categories with reported scores in the 60-99 range (thus excluding the study hours category), (2) combining the Professors: Accessible and Professors: Interesting categories into a single category, and (3) adding the scores in the resulting four categories:

[Private David Lewis]

My favorite factor going into the rankings has to be study hours.  A few samples:

1. Cornell: 5.97 hrs/day
9. Cooley: 5.37 hrs/day
147. UVA: 3.77 hrs/day
151. Harvard
159. NYU
163. Yale
168. USC
169. Texas

http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/10/princeton-rev-2.html

What I can't figure out--does more study hours increase or decrease a school's ranking, and why?

Man, I study about as much as the lowest-ranked school on the list.