Leaked: Are These The 2018 U.S. News Law School Rankings?
If these rankings are correct, there are some key changes at the top of the rankings -- including a new T14.
Have the U.S. News & World Report Rankings (2018) been leaked before their scheduled release yet again? Spivey Consulting, a law school admissions consulting group, is reporting the 2018 rankings are here. Last year Spivey Consulting obtained the 2017 rankings ahead of official publication, so there is plenty of reason to be excited that these are accurate.
Unlike last year’s leak, which dribbled out over the course of a few days, we have the full rankings, from #1 to the very end. If these rankings are correct, there are some key changes at the top — with the top 14 schools changing for the first time since the inception of the rankings.
Here are the reported T14 schools:
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1) Yale
2) Stanford
3) Harvard (-1)
4) U Chicago
5) Columbia (-1)
6) NYU
7) Penn
8) Michigan
8) UVA
10) Duke (+1)
10) Northwestern (+2)
12) Berkeley (-4)
13) Cornell
14) UT Austin (+1)
The ties that have plagued the top five of the rankings have been broken, with Harvard (formerly tied with Stanford) and Columbia (formerly tied with Chicago) taking the hits against their non-Ivy competition. Also taking a big fall is Berkeley, falling out of the top ten, and landing at 12. Absent from the weirdly important top 14 is Georgetown, which is tied for 15th.
The rest of the top 30:
15) Georgetown (-1)
15) UCLA (+2)
17) Vanderbilt (-1)
18) WUSTL
19) USC
20) Iowa
20) Notre Dame (+2)
22) Emory
23) Boston U (-3)
23) U Minnesota (-1)
25) Arizona State
26) Boston College (+4)
26) Alabama (+2)
28) UC Irvine
28) Washington and Lee (+12)
30) GWU (-5)
30) Indiana U Bloomington (-5)
30) Ohio State
30) U Georgia (+3)
30) U Washington (+3)
30) U Wisconsin Madison (+3)
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Whoa, Washington and Lee. Making quite the jump — up 12 spots to tie with UC Irvine at 28.
The rest of the leaked rankings are on the next page.
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