T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown? Forum
- HarveySpecterr
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T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
Please pardon me if this discussion has already happened and, if that's your response, just send me a link. I understand the artificiality of the rankings system, and do not want to begin a discussion that interrogates the meaningfulness thereof. Rather, in the spirit of nerdy fun (which is what all this amounts to for me, otherwise I'd be studying for the LSAT), I wonder what do we make of the Longhorn assault on the T-14? Will we now speak of the T-15? Or have those 14 schools become so tenured that, rather than admit another, we simply ban Georgetown and call it a T-13? In other words, do we allow Texas a place in that exalted group of programs that we consider the best of the best?
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
This has been discussed extensively. It is now the t13. Texas is still a regional law school so it doesn't fit into the national category. Georgetown did this to themselves. So for now, its t-13
- hairbear7
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
Anything other than T-13 is fake news
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- HarveySpecterr
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
Until Texas overtakes Berkeley or Cornell . . .
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
Judging by its latest employment numbers, that may take awhileHarveySpecterr wrote:Until Texas overtakes Berkeley or Cornell . . .
a very long while
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
USNWR rankings are incredibly stupid. But yes, the convention is T13, as it ought to be.
T14 with UT at 14 would be confusing, since most references to T14 refer to the previous lineup, which included GULC and excluded UT.
T14 with GULC at 14 would be confusing because it's inaccurate—GULC is not a Top 14 school.
T15 doesn't make sense, because GULC is tied with UCLA. So it would need to be T16. But once we've added in UCLA, the T-whatever distinction becomes even more meaningless than it already is.
T14 with UT at 14 would be confusing, since most references to T14 refer to the previous lineup, which included GULC and excluded UT.
T14 with GULC at 14 would be confusing because it's inaccurate—GULC is not a Top 14 school.
T15 doesn't make sense, because GULC is tied with UCLA. So it would need to be T16. But once we've added in UCLA, the T-whatever distinction becomes even more meaningless than it already is.
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
If you look at the raw scores rather than just the ordinal rankings, it can help show why it is the t-13, not the t-15.
http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2017/ ... -presented
http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2017/ ... -presented
- HarveySpecterr
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
We have a winner. Thank you, enoca.enoca wrote:If you look at the raw scores rather than just the ordinal rankings, it can help show why it is the t-13, not the t-15.
http://excessofdemocracy.com/blog/2017/ ... -presented
- Mr. Blackacre
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
For what it's worth, the dean of GULC apparently mentioned that we went down because our spending per student went down. Thankfully, the school hasn't made a huge deal of it (yet) or sent one of those big whiny e-mails.
Not too upset because we crushed UT on employment numbers this year. On that basis I'd be inclined to say that we're T14 still, but then Vandy destroyed us too. And that graph is pretty convincing. So whatever, T13 it is.
Not too upset because we crushed UT on employment numbers this year. On that basis I'd be inclined to say that we're T14 still, but then Vandy destroyed us too. And that graph is pretty convincing. So whatever, T13 it is.
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
Yes, it is confusing bcos GULC IS* in a member of the T14 even if its not in the top 14 this year.T14 with GULC at 14 would be confusing because it's inaccurate—GULC is not a Top 14 school.
*By convention, the T14 is the top 14 law schools that have been ranked in the USNews top 10 at least once. (You can look it up.)
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Re: T-13? T-15? What do we do with Texas and GTown?
SureBig Dog wrote:Yes, it is confusing bcos GULC IS* in a member of the T14 even if its not in the top 14 this year.T14 with GULC at 14 would be confusing because it's inaccurate—GULC is not a Top 14 school.
*By convention, the T14 is the top 14 law schools that have been ranked in the USNews top 10 at least once. (You can look it up.)
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