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The Law Schools With The Most Competitive Students (2018)

Gunners unite, because these law schools are your homeland.

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When the average American thinks of what it’s like to attend law school, they think of the regular tropes and urban legends they’ve seen regurgitated in movies and television shows. No, law students aren’t tearing vital pages out of library books, telling people the wrong homework assignments, and sleeping with professors for grades at every law school — but at some law schools, the competition is so stiff that things like this actually happen.

The Princeton Review has a new ranking of the 10 law schools with the most competitive students in the nation. Which schools made the cut?

For this category, students were asked the number of hours they study outside of class each day, the number of hours they think their fellow students study outside of class each day, and the degree of competitiveness among students at their school.

These are the law schools with the most competitive students, per Princeton Review:

  1. Baylor University School of Law
  2. Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law
  3. Southern University Law Center
  4. Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law
  5. Widener University School of Law (PA)
  6. Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School
  7. Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law
  8. UC Hastings College of Law
  9. Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law
  10. Elon University School of Law

All law schools have gunners, but at many of these law schools, it’s like their homeland. It’s worth noting here that while some of these schools are ranked quite highly by U.S. News (Baylor, BYU, Hastings), the vast majority of them have metrics so poor that they were only able to slip into the bottom of the rankings (Widener) or have ranks so low that they aren’t publicly published. Perhaps the reason that there’s so much competition among students at many of these lower-ranked law schools is that they know they need to be at the top of their game in order to transfer out and better their chances of success in the legal profession. After all, the bar exam passage rates and employment statistics for many of these law schools are pretty abysmal.

Did your law school make the grade? If it did, do you think it was ranked fairly? If it didn’t make the list for most competitive students, do you agree with that assessment? Please email us or text us (646-820-8477) with your thoughts. Thanks.

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Law Schools with the Most Competitive Students [Princeton Review]

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky has been an editor at Above the Law since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.

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