My MoneyLaw co-blogger Tom Bell (Chapman) assesses the impact of the changes made by U.S. News to its placement variable by computing the effect it would have had on this year’s overall scores and overall ranking of the Top 100 law schools. According to Tom’s model, here are the schools most impacted by the change in the overall ranking (click on chart to enlarge]:
In addition, Mississippi would rise to #99 from Tier 3, Santa Clara and UNLV would fall to Tier 3 from, respectively, #91 and #100.
