Presently, U.S.News.com is very highly influential to all American students as well as internatonal students. One of several reasons to explain why they care much about ranking of the school they would like to attend is to assure that they will be able to find a job after they graduate from universities. Law school ranking released by USNews.com is widely asserted, but exponentially criticized by reasonable scholars, by employers who are seeking the advocacy or in house lawyer or even a law professor in professional school.
Several criteria applied to measure the law school performance are doubtful in term of its proprieties and trustfulness. Many distinguished scholars in the legal professional career call for those ones. For instance, the first criterion is peer review and attorney confidence in law professors of each law school. U.S.News.com will ask all professors to evaluate the potential of other law school professors; it also requests the judges to estimate those ones to judge which law school should be better than others. Moreover, this commercial ranking company also asks the attorney, but most of them around 30% work in big law firms located New York, to rank quality or the esteem of law school professors in the United States. How can they which law school all over the United States should be better than others? Do they only guess or judge it based on what school they graduated from?
The other suspicious criteria, such as the financial support employed in law school to their law students, the employment rate for graduates in past 6 months and past 9 months of each law school, the bar examination passage rate of the recent graduates, are humongously manipulable by each law school. There is no any organization dealing with those statistics if ones are perfectly true! While those factors are extremely doubtful, other tangible criteria should be applied as the main factors to evaluate the law school performance are spurned by USNews, commercial ranking company. For example, the articles written by a law professor are not the factor to weigh the law school performance, as well as the capacities of law school library are treaded on disdainfully by this comercial company. How can we trust this commercial company?
However, it sounds like nobody concerns about those ridiculous factors; most employers and law schools as well as law students have no alternative. As a result, students have to use such preposterous measurement when they seek some school to attend; the employer will consider which law school that the employee candidate graduated from. Importantly, without any choice, all of law school have to adapt themselves to touch the "high" standard of USNews suspicious ranking.
For example, my law school launched by my Dean did the same thing as I mentioned last year. Dean Hurd pursuaded the law school alumni to rais fund so that this law school can decrease the number of first year law student to gain the higher LSAT score and higher grade of the applicants. She sucessfully accomplished this campaign by decreasing around 50 persons from first year group and simultaneously she relentlessly hires new highly distinguished academic professors from other law schools moving to my law school. LSAT score, and grade as well as the number of professor per students are worthy to be used as ranking measurement, but those are not crucial factors as what I said in the first paragraph.
It sounds like my Dean attempt is excellent to lift up my law school ranking. Evaluating from her endeavor, that is, LSAT of first year student is higher than top 15 of the nation; the rate of professor per student is higher than top 17 of the nation, etc, my law school ranking will be at least in top 20 of the United States. Unfortunately, in accordance with new law school ranking of the U.S.News.com, a new ranking of 2006 is the same as that in 2005 because this ranking company does not measure the law school performance in this year. Here is the 2006 law school ranking, which is actually the one of 2005 ranking:
Several criteria applied to measure the law school performance are doubtful in term of its proprieties and trustfulness. Many distinguished scholars in the legal professional career call for those ones. For instance, the first criterion is peer review and attorney confidence in law professors of each law school. U.S.News.com will ask all professors to evaluate the potential of other law school professors; it also requests the judges to estimate those ones to judge which law school should be better than others. Moreover, this commercial ranking company also asks the attorney, but most of them around 30% work in big law firms located New York, to rank quality or the esteem of law school professors in the United States. How can they which law school all over the United States should be better than others? Do they only guess or judge it based on what school they graduated from?
The other suspicious criteria, such as the financial support employed in law school to their law students, the employment rate for graduates in past 6 months and past 9 months of each law school, the bar examination passage rate of the recent graduates, are humongously manipulable by each law school. There is no any organization dealing with those statistics if ones are perfectly true! While those factors are extremely doubtful, other tangible criteria should be applied as the main factors to evaluate the law school performance are spurned by USNews, commercial ranking company. For example, the articles written by a law professor are not the factor to weigh the law school performance, as well as the capacities of law school library are treaded on disdainfully by this comercial company. How can we trust this commercial company?
However, it sounds like nobody concerns about those ridiculous factors; most employers and law schools as well as law students have no alternative. As a result, students have to use such preposterous measurement when they seek some school to attend; the employer will consider which law school that the employee candidate graduated from. Importantly, without any choice, all of law school have to adapt themselves to touch the "high" standard of USNews suspicious ranking.
For example, my law school launched by my Dean did the same thing as I mentioned last year. Dean Hurd pursuaded the law school alumni to rais fund so that this law school can decrease the number of first year law student to gain the higher LSAT score and higher grade of the applicants. She sucessfully accomplished this campaign by decreasing around 50 persons from first year group and simultaneously she relentlessly hires new highly distinguished academic professors from other law schools moving to my law school. LSAT score, and grade as well as the number of professor per students are worthy to be used as ranking measurement, but those are not crucial factors as what I said in the first paragraph.
It sounds like my Dean attempt is excellent to lift up my law school ranking. Evaluating from her endeavor, that is, LSAT of first year student is higher than top 15 of the nation; the rate of professor per student is higher than top 17 of the nation, etc, my law school ranking will be at least in top 20 of the United States. Unfortunately, in accordance with new law school ranking of the U.S.News.com, a new ranking of 2006 is the same as that in 2005 because this ranking company does not measure the law school performance in this year. Here is the 2006 law school ranking, which is actually the one of 2005 ranking:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/law/lawindex_brief.php
Good luck for those of you who want to seek some law school in the U.S. to attend for this year. Please use this ridiculous ranking for your good future because it is worldly accepted even though it is absolutely nuts, and it does not matter to me at all! To me, I am positive that if you are sedulous enough, you are able to otain the legal knowledge much higher than one who does not take any attention in the higher ranking law school. Some law school will hire the distinguished scholars to be used merely as a ranking measurement, rather than as a valuable professor who will teach its students, especially the international students.
Additionally, there still are numerous reasons why I don't think that any student who attends higher ranking law school will be far more intelligent than one who attend lower ranking one. Consequently, do it your best, and do what you think properly! Don't believe me only because of my reasons!
Good luck for those of you who want to seek some law school in the U.S. to attend for this year. Please use this ridiculous ranking for your good future because it is worldly accepted even though it is absolutely nuts, and it does not matter to me at all! To me, I am positive that if you are sedulous enough, you are able to otain the legal knowledge much higher than one who does not take any attention in the higher ranking law school. Some law school will hire the distinguished scholars to be used merely as a ranking measurement, rather than as a valuable professor who will teach its students, especially the international students.
Additionally, there still are numerous reasons why I don't think that any student who attends higher ranking law school will be far more intelligent than one who attend lower ranking one. Consequently, do it your best, and do what you think properly! Don't believe me only because of my reasons!
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