<p>^ Yes; you don’t have to make Michigan your favorite to actually know that is such a great school. I wouldn’t personally call Michigan a favorite. But I could not say it is not a top-quality school. Many CC posters underestimate Michigan because it is a State U, but what those people did not understand is that Michigan is a special case. It is a State U of world-class caliber. Only quite a few schools can actually claim to be superior than UMich and neither NYU nor Emory can make that claim.</p>
<p>RML, attached is a more recent Yale Law school Bulletin. The most represented schools (with at least 3 students currently enrolled) are:</p>
<p>Yale: 87
Harvard: 76
Stanford: 35
Princeton: 27
Columbia: 22
Brown: 21
Dartmouth: 15
Duke: 14
Penn: 14
Cal: 12
Chicago: 12
Cornell: 10
Michigan: 9
UCLA: 9
Northwestern: 8
WUSTL: 8
Georgetown: 7
NYU: 7
Swarthmore: 7
Wesleyan: 7
Johns Hopkins: 6
UT-Austin: 6
Wellesley: 6
BYU: 5
Southern Cal: 5
UNC-Chapel Hill: 5
Amherst: 4
Florida: 4
Fordham: 4
Georgia: 3
Washington & Lee: 4
Williams: 4
Emory: 3
Middlebury: 3
Notre Dame: 3
Pomona: 3
UVa: 3
Vanderbilt: 3
Washington: 3
Wisconsin-Madison: 3</p>
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<p>^ Thanks for that post, Alexandre. Like I said, it’s very clear to me that Michigan is superior to either Emory or NYU as feeder school to t14, that despite that UMich has its own top law school, or one of the t14 law schools and Emory hasn’t.</p>
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You have clearly not understood anything Alexandre and I have said. Law school acceptance is primarily a function of GPA/LSAT and law school admissions officers do not really distinguish between Tier 1 schools (except in the case of their own law school). Also, Alex and I have established that there are generally 2.5x as many law school applicants from Michigan each year so the fact that Michigan sends 3x as many students to Yale Law as Emory according to the most recent bulletin falls generally in line with expectations.</p>
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Comments like these show your ignorance. The top 14 law schools have stayed static for the past 23 years when USNWR published the first annual ranking of law schools, so its very unlikely that any of these schools will fall out anytime in the near future.</p>
<p>If I were you, I would be more concerned with the trajectory of Michigan Law. In the first annual ranking in 1987, it was ranked #3 right after Harvard and Yale. However, over the course of the past several decades, it has dropped to a low of #9 where it currently stands. Its still an incredible law school, but schools like Stanford and Columbia have stormed right past it.</p>
<p>The Philosophical Gourmet philosophy ranking, based on a survey of philosophy faculty, places NYU #1 and Michigan #5. Emory doesn’t make the top 50. Emory’s defenders might say that’s because Emory’s strength is in Continental philosophy, not analytical philosophy (as at NYU and Michigan). But even in Continental philosophy Emory doesn’t make a particularly strong shoring. It’s in “group 4” (ranked #19-31) for 19th Century Continental philosophy, and it doesn’t make the top 31 in 20th Century Continental philosophy. I’d say you’ll get a much stronger education in analytical philosophy at NYU or Michigan than you would in Continental philosophy at Emory. In Poli Sci it’s not even close; Michigan has one of the top departments in the country.</p>
<p>I’d choose on the basis of where you’ll get the best education. This business about choosing on the basis of where you’ll have the best chance of law school admission is pretty much nonsense. Law school admissions has become almost entirely numbers-driven, largely under the pernicious influence of the US News law school rankings. So from that perspective, it truly doesn’t matter which one of these schools you attend; law school admissions committees will look at your GPA and LSAT, and that’s about it. Whether you got that GPA at Michigan, NYU, or Emory just won’t be a factor. One important qualification to that, however: if you’re concerned you may not get a top LSAT score, there’s a definite advantage to attending Michigan as an undergrad because the Michigan Law School is now test-optional for Michigan undergrads only. And even if you expect to do well on the LSAT, attending Michigan as an undergrad could be a valuable hedging strategy given your goal of attending a top 14 law school.</p>