{"id":69,"date":"2009-08-20T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/?p=69"},"modified":"2009-08-20T15:43:04","modified_gmt":"2009-08-20T21:43:04","slug":"components-of-the-2010-us-news-rankings-of-the-top-100-law-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/2009\/08\/20\/components-of-the-2010-us-news-rankings-of-the-top-100-law-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Components of the 2010 US News Rankings of the Top 100 Law Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official (as opposed to the <a href=\"http:\/\/taxprof.typepad.com\/taxprof_blog\/2009\/04\/early-release-of-2010-us-law-school-rankings.html\" target=\"_blank\">leaked<\/a>)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com\/best-graduate-schools\/top-law-schools\" target=\"_blank\">2010 US News Law School rankings<\/a>\u00a0came out today. \u00a0Over at MoneyLaw, Tom Bell has an interesting post,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/money-law.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/how-top-ranked-law-schools-got-that-way.html\" target=\"_blank\">How Top-Ranked Law Schools Got That Way, Pt. I.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>He looks at the weighted standardized scores on each of the 12 components of the overall score.\u00a0 He then\u00a0compares the amounts by\u00a0which the component scores vary among the top 100, and\u00a0the top 12,\u00a0law schools.\u00a0 As expected, the peer reputation scores (PeerRep) vary (and count) the most.\u00a0 The surprising result is that the second highest variation is in overall expenditures per student (Over$\/Stu):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[T]he Over$\/Stu z-scores range quite widely, with Yale having more than double the score of all but two schools, Harvard and Stanford, which themselves manage less than two-thirds Yale&#8217;s Over$\/Stu score. That wide spread gives the Over$\/Stu score an especially powerful influence on Yale&#8217;s overall score, making it almost as important as Yale&#8217;s PeerRep score and much more important than any of the school&#8217;s remaining 10 z-scores. In effect, Yale&#8217;s extraordinary expenditures per student buy it a tenured slot at number one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If would be interesting to see the relative component contributions for Tiers 3 and 4, as well as Tiers 2 and 3.<\/p>\n<p>Gary Rosin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The official (as opposed to the leaked)\u00a02010 US News Law School rankings\u00a0came out today. \u00a0Over at MoneyLaw, Tom Bell has an interesting post,\u00a0How Top-Ranked Law Schools Got That Way, Pt. I.\u00a0He looks at the weighted standardized scores on each of the 12 components of the overall score.\u00a0 He then\u00a0compares the amounts by\u00a0which the component scores [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-69","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law-schools","category-rankings","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69","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=69"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69\/revisions\/77"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uberlaw.net\/LawNumbers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}