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Top 40 Law Schools by Student Quality

Brian Leiter has posted a ranking of the Top 40 law schools by student quality, as measured by the average of the 75th and 25th percentile LSAT scores for the Fall 2008 entering class.  Interestingly, the Top 18 schools are the same as the Top 18 schools in the U.S. News rankings (with slight differences among the Top 18):













































































 


Leiter


U.S. News


1


Harvard


Yale


2


Yale


Harvard


3


Columbia


Stanford


4


NYU


Columbia


5


Chicago


NYU


6


Stanford


UC-Berkeley


Chicago


Penn


Michigan


7


Virginia


 


8


Northwestern


9


Penn


10


Michigan


Duke


Northwestern


Virginia


11


Georgetown


 


12


UC-Berkeley


13


Duke


Cornell


14


UCLA


Georgetown


15


Vanderbilt


Texas


UCLA


16


Cornell


 


17


Texas


Vanderbilt


18


USC


USC


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