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2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings Predictions: A New T14?

Oh boy! We'll have to wait and see if this comes true.

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The legal world is eagerly awaiting the release of the 2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings later this month on March 30. Word on the street is that law school deans have already received their rankings fates under embargo, but the rest of us are still out here trying to analyze our crystal balls for any insight as to how the rankings may shake out this time around.

Over at Spivey Consulting Group, they’ve done the work for us and used available public data to calculate their predictions for the new Top 30 (or so) law schools in the country. Mike Spivey offers a cautionary take, noting that because over 50 percent of the U.S. News rankings comes from private data, these predictions are unlikely to be 100 percent accurate in any way.

Be that as it may, we’re happy to speculate with glee. Is this the new T14?

1. Yale
2. Stanford
3. Harvard
4. Columbia
4. Chicago
6. New York University
7. Penn
8. University of Virginia
9. University of California-Berkeley
9. Northwestern
11. University of Michigan (-2)
11. Duke (+1)
13. Cornell
13. Georgetown (+1)

Click here to see the full list of predictions.

*record scratch*

Make that the new T13, which apparently can be a thing. The last time there was a tie at the bottom of the top like this was seven years ago, back in 2014. Is Georgetown being rewarded in these hypothetical rankings for quickly firing a professor whose racist commentary went viral? No, but this is just a prediction, so we can dream. And what happened with Michigan and Duke?

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We’re sure something happened with incoming students’ data and graduates’ employment statistics and bar passage rates at all of the schools that moved up and down in the “T13,” but we’ll have to wait and see if this prediction looks anything like the real-deal rankings in about two weeks. Stay tuned!

2022 U.S. News Law School Rankings Predictions [Spivey Consulting Group]

Staci ZaretskyStaci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked 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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