Law schools are making a whole lot of noise this week. As our readers know, the law schools of Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Georgetown, Michigan, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and Northwestern have all opted to boycott the annual US News & World Report law school ranking by refusing to report their data. …
The party sure is growing. The Duke University School of Law, the Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, the UCLA School of Law, and the University of Michigan Law School have joined the likes of Harvard Law School, Yale Law School, Stanford Law School, UC Berkeley School of Law, Columbia Law …
From atop our soapbox in elite college admission, we have long called for an end to the practice of legacy admission. Legacy admission, the act of offering preferential treatment in admissions decision-making to the progeny of a school’s alumni-base is an anachronistic practice more befitting an aristocracy than our proud …
We have an expression for young people — or not so young people — who just love school so much that they stay in school for the bulk of their prime working years: lifelong students. Well, recently, Columbia University announced the start of a dual doctorate program that will give …
It was another banner year in admissions for Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business. Among students who will be matriculating to Tuck this fall, the average GMAT score stood at 726 — marking, for the second year in a row, a new record for the Ivy League b-school. In addition, …
Do you know how many justices on the current United States Supreme Court attended Ivy League law schools? Eight. That’s right. Eight. All but Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who attended Notre Dame Law School, attended either Harvard Law School or Yale Law School. But it’s not like our nation’s highest …
Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business has found a new admissions leader. Lawrence Mur’ray, who currently serves as the senior assistant dean of graduate business programs at Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business, will take over at Tuck beginning at the end of August. Mur’ray will replace Luke Anthony Peña …
Do you know that tired argument that there is no advantage to attending an elite university, like an Ivy League school, over a local public school? Don’t get us wrong. There are some great public schools in America — from the University of Michigan to the University of Virginia, the …
We recently reported on the Columbia University Teachers College administrator who was shown the door after she allegedly refused to offer admission to international applicants with underwhelming credentials. According to her lawsuit filed against the Ivy League institution, the administrator, Yocasta Brens, believes the institution was admitting students who often …
Just as so many of America’s universities went SAT/ACT optional in undergraduate admissions in recent years, America’s law schools could soon go test-optional as well. Indeed, the American Bar Association is presently weighing whether or not law schools across the nation should be allowed to not require standardized test scores …
