2023-24 U.S. News Law School Rankings: This Year vs. Last Year (+/-)
After a long, winding, grueling path to get here, we finally have the 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report law school rankings. Here are the new rankings with +/-.
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11 May 2023
17 Apr 2023
What's Going On with the U.S. News Rankings Delay?
Just as the most tumultuous rankings season we have ever seen seemed to be settling, and U.S. News had both publicly released their top 14 law schools and the full embargoed rankings to all law schools, the following email was sent to deans.
Read full post12 Apr 2023
U.S. News Significantly Reduces the Weight of LSAT/GRE & GPA. What's Next?
A few months ago, many law schools announced they would boycott sending U.S. News direct (and non-third party audited) data, essentially forcing U.S. News to change their methodology. The rates of the admissions metrics were significantly reduced. What does this mean?
Read full post11 Apr 2023
2023-2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings T14
U.S. News has yet to publicly release the full 2023-2024 law school rankings, but today they released the Top 14 with their new methodology.
Read full post02 Mar 2023
Some Commentary on the U.S. News Op-Ed
U.S. News & World Report is not sitting idle while its rankings come under fire. The CEO published an article in the Wall Street Journal offering his views on the rankings boycott. We have some thoughts.
Read full post02 Jan 2023
Official U.S. News Statement on Law School Rankings Methodology Changes, Following Rankings Exodus
U.S. News & World Report has sent the following letter to law schools regarding methodology changes for the upcoming 2023-2024 rankings. This comes in the wake of 20+ law schools announcing they will no longer submit their data for rankings purposes.
Read full post30 Nov 2022
Podcast: Law Schools Leaving the U.S. News Rankings—Implications for This Year & The Future
If you haven't already heard, a number of law schools have recently announced that they will no longer be participating in the rankings. But what does that actually mean? Why are they doing it, and why now? What impacts might it have on applicants, law students, and legal education as a whole?
Read full post19 Nov 2022
List of Law Schools Withdrawing from U.S. News & World Report Rankings Participation
On November 16, 2022, as we recently blogged about, two law schools announced that they would no longer be participating in the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings (first Yale, then Harvard). In the days since, other schools have begun to announce their plans to do the same.
Read full post17 Nov 2022
Answering U.S. News Law School Rankings Withdrawal Questions from 11/16/2022
November 16, 2022 may not have been the single most pivotal day in law school decision-making, but it was likely up there.
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Implications of Yale Law Withdrawing from the U.S. News Rankings
As many people have no doubt seen, Yale Law School will no longer participate in the U.S. News Law School Rankings.
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