Thursday, 28 February 2013

Law Schools by Eemmett Shelton

Law schools is the place where young students are moulded to professional lawyers and judges, who help the society and individual to get the justice and help the society to live peacefully. Law schools offer a 3 year graduation in law in most of the countries and the pass out can start appearing in court after obtaining some kind of experience from senior lawyers.

Among the highest ranked law schools in the United States are the Yale University with the number 1 ranking followed by Harvard University which has a 2008 GPA 25th-75th percentile of 3.76-3.96. Then comes Stanford University and then Columbia university, University of Chicago, New York University, UC Berkley, University of Pennsylvania, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, University of Virginia, Duke University, North-western University(Illinois), Cornell University(New York), Georgetown University and followed by hundreds of other universities.

There are 100s of law schools there in Unites states but most of the students want to pursue their law graduation from one of the above law school. Why these law schools are popular than other law schools?. The answer is not a single reason, student prefer these Top law schools for many reasons that differentiate these law schools from the rest.

The various criteria that determine that a law school is one among top law schools are, the Educational Quality ranking, which is based on the survey conducted among various persons associated with a particular university and takes into account the three main factors, quality of student body, faculty and teaching. Then there is the GPA, which stands for grade point averages and the universities with students who constantly get a higher GPA than their other university counterparts are naturally placed higher in the ranking table. The infrastructure of the university is taken into account, which is a very important concern. The student/faculty ratio is also considered and some ranking programs also take this into account and reduce points for the university as the number of students per faculty increase. For subject specific ranking, the Gourman report is considered, which, proposed by Dr. Jack Gourman takes, not the overall university, but the particular subject into consideration.

Gourman report however is controversial as some sections criticize that it favours large state universities and also it is quite outdated now as the last report came out only in 1997. The next important factor that determines the ranking of a law school is the LSAT score of the students who choose a particular law school. LSAT stands for Law School Admission Test and this score is directly proportional to the ranking of the university.

To get in to one of the top law schools student need to put huge effort right from the pre college days and in preparing the LSAT exam. A seat in Top law school assures you a bright future and earns you prestige and respect in society

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