Tom Bell continues his series on the U.S. News & World Report Law School Rankings with a post on Florida Explains the Data it Reported for the USN&WR Rankings:
USN&WR evidently ranked Florida based on the median LSAT and GPA of only that school’s fall 2005 full-time, first-year class. But USN&WR almost certainly intended to rank the school based on the (somewhat lower) median LSAT and GPA of its entire 2005 full-time, first-year class. It seems, in other words, that Florida benefited from the same sort of error that benefited Baylor University School of Law.
Did USN&WR in fact rank Florida based on the wrong median LSAT and GPA? And, if so, why? As I did in Baylor’s case, I sought explanations from both USN&WR and Florida. I here offer their responses.
Prior posts in Tom’s series:
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Baylor Explains its LSAT & GPA Data
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Why Is Florida #41 Rather Than #43?
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Baylor & U.S. News Respond to Data Mix-up
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: LSAT and GPA Rankings
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Why Is Baylor #51 Rather Than #58?
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Z-Scores
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Accuracy of the Model
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: The Role of ABA Data
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Why Model the Rankings?
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Reverse Engineering the Rankings
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Winners & Losers in Use of Reported Median LSATs & GPAs
- Bell on the U.S. News Law School Rankings: Student Quality
