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Excited for the new USNWR Law School Rankings coming March 10th, 2015? We will get them March 9th! Follow us on Twitter to see who is at the top and who is falling a day early.https://twitter.com/SpiveyConsult And finally, 51 -100. 51. Baylor University (+3) 51. Penn State University (+13)51. University of Richmond (+2)54. Pepperdine University (+7)54. UC Hastings (-6)54. University of Connecticut (+4)54. University of Nebraska—Lincoln (+7)58. University of Houston (-10)58. University of K

Compare the new 2014 rankings with last year's top law sch

The top 20 schools, per USNWR 3/10/2014 are: (with +/- from last year) 1. Yale 2. Harvard 3. Stanford** (-1)** 4. Columbia 5. Chicago 6. NYU 7. Penn 8. UVa (-1) 9. Berkeley 10. Duke (+1) 11. Michigan (-1) 12. Northwestern 13. Cornell 14. GULC (+1) 15. Texas 16. UCLA (+1) 17. Vand

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High LSAT score of 2014 ABA applicants with the percent change from last year, as of 2/21/14

We are starting to get a huge number of calls and emails from people who are at their wits end waiting to hear back from law schools. On one such call this morning I said the following, that I want to share with everyone: > From the applicants (or admitted students perspective waiting for merit awards) the wait seems agonizingly long. I understand that –I’d have to be emotionless not to. Outreach to use from anxious prospective students has been off the charts. But from the lens of the dean of

The waiting has begun.

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Our first-ever (and perhaps the only) law school facilities ranking.

…our inaugural one brought to us by ThetaX! > “Burning question, I haven’t found an answer to this one yet. Considering that medians, as opposed to 25th and 75th percentile, matter for rankings; If a school’s median is a 169 and they arent trying to raise it, wouldnt a 170 and 171 do the same exact thing for them? In a down year like this one, whats the point of a 175 vs 170 in terms of the median? Does a school care about their 75th? Same goes for GPA. If median is 3.7? Wouldnt a 3.8 do the sa

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