{"id":114103,"date":"2025-04-08T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/08\/are-the-u-s-news-law-school-rankings-so-arbitrary-that-theyve-become-meaningless\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T14:03:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T22:03:00","slug":"are-the-u-s-news-law-school-rankings-so-arbitrary-that-theyve-become-meaningless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/08\/are-the-u-s-news-law-school-rankings-so-arbitrary-that-theyve-become-meaningless\/","title":{"rendered":"Are The U.S. News Law School Rankings \u2018So Arbitrary\u2019 That They\u2019ve Become Meaningless?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[T]hey are so arbitrary as to have no meaning to me anymore. [Harvard Law School] at six? Columbia and NYU at eight? I don\u2019t know what analysis can really be done at this point other than to comment that, as usual, these are wholly made up by U.S. News. They set the methodology so they choose what to prioritize, and they are consistently suspicious at the top while changing wildly for lower-ranked schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dave Killoran<\/a>, CEO of Powerscore Test Preparation,\u00a0in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, on the recently released U.S. News law school rankings<\/a>. In the latest version of the rankings, 17 law schools are ranked within the Top 14, with Cornell being dropped and four schools \u2014 Georgetown, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis \u2014 now tied at No. 14.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[T]hey are so arbitrary as to have no meaning to me anymore. [Harvard Law School] at six? Columbia and NYU at eight? I don\u2019t know what analysis can really be done at this point other than to comment that, as usual, these are wholly made up by U.S. News. They set the methodology so they choose what to prioritize, and they are consistently suspicious at the top while changing wildly for lower-ranked schools.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dave Killoran<\/a>, CEO of Powerscore Test Preparation,\u00a0in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, on the recently released U.S. News law school rankings<\/a>. In the latest version of the rankings, 17 law schools are ranked within the Top 14, with Cornell being dropped and four schools \u2014 Georgetown, UT-Austin, Vanderbilt, and Washington University in St. Louis \u2014 now tied at No. 14.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [T]hey are so arbitrary as to have no meaning to me anymore. [Harvard Law School] at six? Columbia and NYU at eight? I don\u2019t know what analysis can really be done at this point other than to comment that, as usual, these are wholly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Staci-Zaretsky-L17xhJ.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}