The law school I attend dropped thirty spots in a ranking of the nation's top 100 legal institutions, making it the biggest lower of the annual U.S. News Report.
In a word, the emotion here is "disappointment" because despite a lot of people's hard work, the school that brings us together lost public status.
However, in an email to the student body today, the Dean suggests skepticism of the rankings are warranted because the rankings do not measure student potential.
There is much criticism of U. S. News’ attempt to rank from #1 to #100 the top one-half of law schools in the country, which some have compared to the point-by-point ranking by individual law schools (including ours) of very bright students—all of whom have the capacity to be outstanding lawyers.
Nevertheless, the Dean explains that the school does not (or cannot) dismiss the new ranking.
Despite the many flaws in the U. S. News rankings, or in any rankings in which a law school could rise or fall 20 or 30 positions in a single year, we study each year’s rankings every spring. While the rankings methodology remains flawed, it is better to rank higher, rather than lower, in such rankings.
Sometimes all you can do is state the obvious.
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