It’s time to check out U.S. News’s latest law school rankings (2021). The rankings are based on expert opinions about the quality of each program and statistical indicators to quantify and measure the quality of a program’s faculty, research, and students. The reputation surveys were sent to academics and professionals in fall 2019 and early…
How Does Your Top Choice Law School Rank in Accepted’s Selectivity Index?
Applying to law school is a long, costly process. Every applicant believes that the schools they are applying to are the correct fit for them, and then are devastated if and when they receive rejection letters in place of the acceptance letters they were expecting. Unfortunately, many applicants make several critical errors during the application…
U.S. News Releases 2020 Law School Rankings
U.S. News released its annual rankings of the best U.S. law schools earlier this week. Many students apply to grad school believing that another degree will impact positively on their choice of jobs or their salaries. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)’s employment forecast published in the summer of 2018, they may be…
Accepted’s Selectivity Index: Are You Asleep When You Apply?
I once heard a story about a gentleman who was about to purchase a certain piece of land with the intention of building a school on that property. It was wartime, and the theater of war was rapidly approaching the region in which he and the property were located. A friend heard about his intended…
Review of Law School Transparency Reports
Law School Transparency (LST) was a project started by a group of lawyers who wanted to make the law school application process fair and transparent. For a long time, the U.S. News ranking has been the guidepost for law school applicants, but LST has a new guide for law school applicants called LST Reports. The…
