Podcast: The New 2024 Law School Rankings Explained
In this brief episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses the changes U.S. News made to their methodology this year.
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09 Apr 2024
09 Apr 2024
U.S. News Law School Rankings: 2024 vs. 2023 (+/-)
With the embargo lifted at 12:01 ET today, here are the full U.S. News law school rankings.
Read full post03 Apr 2024
New U.S. News Top 25 Law Schools 2024-2025 (with +/-)
Here are the new 2024-2025 U.S. News top 25 law schools.
Read full post04 Mar 2024
Podcast: Why Rankings Matter to People (& Why They Should Not)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike discusses some of the psychological and societal reasons that rankings seem to matter so much to people—then explains the reasons that they shouldn't matter as much as they do.
Read full post12 Feb 2024
Podcast: Law School Admissions Now vs. 10 Years Ago
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna has a conversation with Joe Pollak, one of Spivey's consultants and a former admissions officer at the University of Michigan Law School, about differences and similarities in law school admissions today vs. ten years ago.
Read full post15 Dec 2023
Predicted 2024 U.S. News Law School Rankings
With today’s release of the new ABA-required 509 disclosures, we now have all law schools’ fall 2023 medians and class sizes, plus we have the ability to more accurately predict next year’s upcoming U.S. News law school rankings.
Read full post13 Nov 2023
How does U.S. News *actually* rank law schools?
The U.S. News & World Report law school rankings methodology may appear simple at first glance, but it is also widely (and deeply) misunderstood. Here, we analyze the methodology + this year's changes.
Read full post18 Sep 2023
U.S. News Best College Rankings (+/- 2024 vs. 2023)
The 2024 (published 2023) U.S. News & World Report Best Colleges Rankings were released today—here are the top 50 national universities with plus/minuses.
Read full post26 Jun 2023
Podcast: Dean Z on Underrated/Overrated Law School Admissions Advice + Answering Reddit Questions (Part 1)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike has a conversation with Dean Sarah Zearfoss (also known as "Dean Z").
Read full post23 May 2023
Podcast: The New Rankings & The Future of Law School Admissions/Legal Education
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike talks about the new 2023-2024 U.S. News law school rankings (full +/- list here), the changes in methodology that they made, and whether and how this year's rankings events will impact law school admissions and legal education moving forward.
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