Elite Law Schools Boycotted the U.S. News Rankings. Now, They May Be Paying a Price.

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Months ago, dozens of elite law schools and medical schools announced that they were boycotting the U.S. News & World Report rankings and refusing to give the publication any data. The rankings, they said, were unreliable and skewed educational priorities.

It may be a case of be careful what you wish for.

Yale Law School, the instigator of the boycott, is among those that see the rankings as incorrigible. “What we are seeing unfold with U.S. News on a weekly basis is exactly why so many schools no longer participate,” said Debra Kroszner, an associate dean and chief of staff at the law school. ”It’s a deeply flawed system.”

But boycotting schools were still upset over some of the data, especially the way that U.S. News counted after-graduation employment. The University of California, Berkeley, had similar complaints, saying that students in its joint law and doctoral program, who take longer to graduate, were being counted as unemployed. The law school’s dean, Erwin Chemerinsky, said he had complained to U.S. News but not yet heard back.The problem is not that schools suddenly have become believers in the value of the rankings, he said. Rather, they believe that if U.S.

To other observers, however, the haggling reveals the arbitrariness of the data that can be disrupted by a simple change in metrics.

 

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