Following up on this week’s posts:

David Lat (Unique Jurisdiction), The U.S. Information Rankings: Say Hey To The New T14:

Some observations: …

• [T]hese are the identical 14 colleges because the conventional T14, with one exception—UCLA edging out Georgetown for #14.
• Stanford Regulation has caught up with Yale Regulation—not simply in disruptive protests, however in U.S. Information. For what I consider to be the primary time within the rankings, Yale is tied for #1 moderately than alone at #1. Is that this an indication that SLS is gaining on YLS, such that Stanford may be the undisputed #1 in some future 12 months? Keep tuned.
• As was the case in final 12 months’s rankings, the “Holy Trinity” of “HYS”—Harvard, Yale, Stanford—was disrupted. As soon as once more, Chicago took the #3 spot, forward of Harvard, and Harvard needed to share the #4 spot—final 12 months with Columbia, this 12 months with Penn. (Sniffed a good friend of mine who’s an HLS alum, “HLS tied with UPenn exhibits these rankings are meaningless.”) …
• Total, there wasn’t a lot motion inside the T14—and I’m guessing this was by design, with U.S. Information and rankings guru Bob Morse experimenting with completely different weightings of things till they obtained a consequence that regarded “proper.” Of the 14 colleges, solely 4 moved by greater than a single spot. The colleges that moved up by a couple of spot have been Duke (+5), Northwestern (+3), and Penn (+2), and just one faculty moved down by a couple of spot, Columbia (-4).

• For a very long time, Columbia and NYU have been seen as “T6” colleges (together with HYS plus Chicago). However now NYU is again within the T6, after falling to #7 final 12 months, whereas Columbia has been relegated to #8. Recruiting for CLS simply obtained tougher—and I think this U.S. Information drop can have much more of an impression than the recruiting boycott of assorted affinity teams within the wake of the Columbia Regulation Instagram controversy. (By the way in which, the Instagram publish in query is nonetheless up—and I’m guessing that will probably be staying up, boycott or not.)

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