2013 TOP SIX LAW SCHOOLS DATA: SCORES 2005 TO 2013
2013 TOP SIX
AVERAGE
LAW SCHOOLS
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2005-2013
Yale
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
100
Stanford
92
93
92
90
91
93
93
94
96
92.667
Harvard
93
94
91
90
91
95
97
96
95
93.556
Columbia
90
89
86
85
88
88
91
92
94
89.222
U Chicago
84
82
81
80
80
84
88
90
93
84.667
New York U
89
86
86
87
85
87
87
89
92
87.556
YEAR SUM
448
444
436
432
435
447
456
461
470
YEAR AVERAGE
89.6
88.8
87.2
86.4
87.0
89.4
91.2
92.2
94.0
The last two rows refer to the SUM and AVERAGE for the five top competitorss.
2013 TOP SIX LAW SCHOOLS PERFORMANCE SUMMARY
From the the preceding table, YEAR SUM, we see that Yale's five main competitors collectively hit a relative low point in 2008. Ipso facto, with respect to its five main competitors,Yale hit a relative high point in 2008.
For the time period 2008-2013, Yale's top-five competitors, both individually and collectively, are the clear-cut winners in their struggle with Yale Law School.In this time period, these five law schools increased their average score from 86.4 in 2008 to 94.0 in 2013.
From 2008-2013,the average score for Yale's five main competitorswas non-decreasing and moved from 86.4 to 94.0.
From 2008-2013,Stanford's score was non-decreasing and moved from 90 to 96.
From 2008-2011,Harvardincreased its score from 90 to 97 but, from 2011 to 2013, Harvard's score decreased to 95.
From 2008-2013,Columbia's score was non-decreasing and moved from 85 to 94.
From 2009-2013,U Chicago's score was non-decreasing and, amazingly enough, moved from 80 to 93.
From 2009-2013,New York University's score was non-decreasing and moved from 85 to 92.
2009-2012 YALE IN DECLINE SECTION SUMMARY
FOR THE TIME PERIOD 2009 TO 2013, HOW DID YALE DO AGAINST ITS 2013 TOP FIVE COMPETITORS? COMMENT.Yale's 2013 top five competitors are: Stanford, Harvard, Columbia, U Chicago, and New York University. COMMENT. The average score of Yale's competitors increased from 87.00 to 94.00. COMMENT. From 2005-2008, the average score of Yale's top five competitorsdecreasedfrom 89.6 to 86.4. A change in score of 3.20. Thus 2005-2008 were good years for Yale.
FOR THE TIME PERIOD 2009 TO 2012, HOW DID YALE DO AGAINST ITS 2009 TOP 103 COMPETITORS? ANSWER. Poorly (See Section 2) COMMENT. From 2009-2012, the average score of the top 103 competitors increased from 54.07 to 58.12. A change in score of 4.05.
HOW DID YALE DO ONE-TO-ONE AGAINST THE 2009 TOP 103 LAW SCHOOLS? OBSERVATION. Yale did better than three of the top 103 law schools (U Missouri, U Colorado, and U Connecticut) and held its own against three of the 103 law schools (U Cincinnati, U Kentucky, and U Villanova). The remaining 97 gained ground on Yale.
INTRODUCTION
One cannot judge the rise or fall of the USNews top-ranked law school by its score since USNews implicitly defines the score of the top-ranked law school to be 100.
Over a given period of time, we can judge the rise or fall of the top-ranked law schools by the scores obtained by comparable law schools over the same time period.
For comparable law schools, we chose the law schools ranked 2 to 6 (2013 Ranking) and the law schools ranked 2 to 104 (2009 Ranking). For the time period, we choose 2009-2012. A year-by-year analysis (2009 to 2012) indicate that Yale's is declining with respect to both of these groups.
