{"id":233,"date":"2009-10-03T15:34:45","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=233"},"modified":"2009-10-03T15:34:45","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T21:34:45","slug":"how-strong-are-new-law-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/10\/03\/how-strong-are-new-law-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"How Strong are New Law Schools?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em><a href=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/10\/02\/flat-demand-and-more-law-schools\/\" target=\"_blank\">Flat Demand and More Law Schools<\/a>,<\/em>I suggested that new law schools were more likely to compete with <em>U.S. News<\/em>Tier 3 and Tier 4 schools (especially the latter).\u00a0 To illustrate that, lets look at the 27 schools accredited after 1988.\u00a0 Only two of the schools (Seattle and UNLV) were ranked in Tier 2, and only three of the schools (Chapman, Florida International and Quinnipiac) were ranked in Tier 3.\u00a0 The remaining schools were ranked in Tier 4 (10 Schools) or were not rated by <em>U.S. News<\/em> (12 schools).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-235\" title=\"Pre- and Post1988 Law Schools\" src=\"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Compare.1988.jpg\" alt=\"Pre- and Post1988 Law Schools\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Compare.1988.jpg 400w, https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Compare.1988-300x240.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The chart shows the distribution of the LSAT 25th percentiles for the Fall 2008 entering classes, as shown in the 2010 Official Guide.\u00a0 The 25th percentile for all ABA-approved law schools (other than the three in Puerto Rico) was 151. Over 74% of the post-1988 law schools (19 out of 27) had entering classes with an LSAT 25th percentile of 151 or lower.<\/p>\n<p>To be sure, UC-Irvine will be a much stronger law school.\u00a0 Perhaps U. North Texas in Dallas will also do well.\u00a0 Bothhave a lot of money being put into them, which is always good.\u00a0 But UNT-Dallas is bound to hurt Texas Wesleyan in the other half of the Dallas- Ft. Worth metroplex.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Rosin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Flat Demand and More Law Schools,I suggested that new law schools were more likely to compete with U.S. NewsTier 3 and Tier 4 schools (especially the latter).\u00a0 To illustrate that, lets look at the 27 schools accredited after 1988.\u00a0 Only two of the schools (Seattle and UNLV) were ranked in Tier 2, and only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions\/237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}