College Rankings Will Never Die

<p>Thanks, Alexandre.</p>

<p>The information you present is helpful. But I come to this discussion as the father of a bright and ambitious high school senior who’s making decisions about where she’ll attend undergraduate school – with an eye to law school or graduate school four-years hence.</p>

<p>What would be most helpful would be the inverse of this information – a listing of undergraduate institutions disclosing their graduates’ placements in various law schools. We are very fortunate to have my daughter’s preferred undergraduate school’s data. What we don’t have is data for her second, third, fourth, and fifth choices with which to compare apples to apples. I do know, for example, that her second, third, and fourth choice undergraduate schools each placed at least one graduate at Harvard Law School this past fall. What we don’t know is how many students applied at HLS from each school, how many were admitted, and how many actually attend law school. That kind of information would ease her undergraduate school decision-making process.</p>