<p>"The West Coast wins this round: Though Yale University Law School comes first in nearly every ranking of the nations best law schoolsincluding the ubiquitous U.S. News & World Report lista new debut ranking by Tipping the Scales.com puts Stanford Law School at the front of the pack." ...</p>
<p>Combined with ATL we now have 2 new sets of rankings that no one cares about! Lawyers will still recognize the big name schools and the schools near them and give them hiring preference. Students will still look at USNWR (or if they’re smarter at employment prospects directly, though USNWR is a decent proxy). Judges will still look at the big names (federal/ssc) and the best regional schools (state). In short, no one will pay attention or care about yet another way to rank schools that are, for the most part, functionally identical.</p>
<p>Ditto Demosthenes.</p>
<p>Really, the two things that students should look at are employment prospects and debt. “Employment prospects” matter in the general sense, and for your specific case: if you want to be in Boston, better to go to Suffolk than to the higher-ranked American. They matter in terms of what you want to do - some schools have unusually high clerkship placements. </p>
<p>It’s professional school, not a beauty pageant.</p>