Candidates are obsessive about rankings, which makes it laborious for legislation faculties not to reply to that.
— Admissions guide Anna Ivey, a former admissions dean on the College of Chicago Regulation College, in feedback given to Reuters on why potential and present legislation college students might to proceed to depend on the U.S. Information legislation faculty rankings, even though many elite legislation faculties have determined to decide out of collaborating, in a transfer led by Yale Regulation College. That is unlikely to sway pre-law college students, nonetheless, as a result of as Ivey famous, “[a]pplicants don’t look into how the sausage will get made.”
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