Mike Spivey's My Rank Top 50 Law Schools

As many of you know, we have spent the past several months developing a tool for prospective law school applicants to create their own customized law school rankings. My Rank is available now and is free for anyone to use (no sign-up required). For fun, I asked Mike to create his own rankings!

Below are Mike's top 50, and then a brief explanation from Mike on how we got here.

- Anna Hicks

Here are his top 50:

1. University of Chicago
2. Northwestern University
3. Duke University
4. Yale University
5. Stanford University
6. University of Michigan
7. Washington University in St. Louis
8. Cornell University
9. University of Illinois
10. University of California—Berkeley
11. Vanderbilt University
12. University of Texas at Austin
13. University of Virginia
14. Washington and Lee University
15. University of Pennsylvania
16. Boston University
17. University of Notre Dame
18. University of Minnesota
19. Pennsylvania State—Dickinson Law
20. Harvard University
21. University of California—Los Angeles
22. William and Mary Law School
23. Columbia University
24. Wake Forest University
25. University of Southern California
26. New York University
27. University of Iowa
28. Indiana University—Bloomington
29. University of California—Irvine
30. George Mason University
31. Ohio State University
32. Pennsylvania State—Penn State Law
33. University of Arizona
34. University of California—Davis
35. Georgetown University
36. University of Wisconsin
37. Emory University
38. University of Georgia
39. University of Florida
40. Seton Hall University
41. Northeastern University
42. Boston College
43. University of Alabama
44. Florida State University
45. University of Washington
46. Villanova University
47. University of Colorado
48. Temple University
49. University of Richmond
50. Arizona State University

Just an FYI, my category weights likely look a lot different from most applicants'. For example, I know how incredibly flawed both USNWR rankings and reporting mechanisms are, so I devalued those a good deal, but I would understand why an applicant would not – they matter to employers. That is just one of many examples. But I think that is the point – everyone's rankings are individualized for them. I was actually surprised and fascinated by these results. I hope you are too by your own! –Mike

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