LAW SCHOOL RANKING
Presently, USNew.com is very highly influent to all American students as well as international students. One of several reasons to explain why they care much about ranking of the school, which 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 accepted, but exponentially criticized, 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 this ranking company to reconsider its criteria. For instance, the first criterion is peer review and attorney's confidence in law professors of each law school. USNew.com will ask all law 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. In addition, this ranking company also asks the attorney, but most of them around 30% work in big law firms located in New York, to rank quality or the esteem of law school professors in the United States to classify which one is better than others. How can they know the performance of other law schools all over the United States? Do they have to guess or do they consider based on which law school they graduated from? Does it make sense to measure a law school performance?
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. No organization will examine if the school report about those one is perfectly true. While those factors are suspicious but employed by this ranking company, other tangible criteria, which should have been applied as the main factors to evaluate the law school performance, are spurned by this commercial ranking company. For example, the valuable 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 commercial company as well. How can we trust this commercial ranking company? Do these factors based on the monetary status of law school?
However, it looks 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 schools have to adapt themselves to touch the "high" standard of USNews suspicious ranking.
For example, my law school launched by my Dean commenced several things to enhance my law school ranking last year. Dean Hurd pursuaded 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 used by USNews.com as what I said in the first paragraph although they should have been the vital factors.
It sounds like my Dean's attempt is excellent enough to lift up my law school to higher 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 USNew.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: click it. The question is that my law school should eliminate an opportunity to study in JD program of those 50 students because of this preposterous ranking measurement!
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 a valuable person to 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!
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