The U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings methodology is simultaneously clear and cloudy.
By now all law schools have their new, 2021 U.S. News and World Report rankings, and as always, reactions will be mixed.
Plus/minuses for this year's law school rankings vs. last.
Despite being a few years into those scores factoring into the methodology, there remains a great deal of confusion about how exactly GRE scores stack up to LSAT scores when calculating law school rankings.
Note: Spivey Consulting Group does not endorse these rankings, and we have posted extensively about the value rankings do and do not have in the past (some examples here [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pkSzwWExzQ], here [https://spiveyconsulting.ghost.io/five-u-s-news-rankings-failures/], and here [https://spiveyconsulting.ghost.io/usnwr-rankings-explaining-some-of-the-change-inflation-and-the-mechanics-of-frustration/] ). For personalized law school rankings based on your own preferences and
U.S. News and World Report has published their 2021 (released 2020) undergraduate rankings.
From Washington Monthly.
By Joe Pollak, Consultant at the Spivey Consulting Group
Below are the 2022 (released March 2021) U.S. News & World Report law school rankings, with +/- from last year's rankings.
