U.S. News Ultimate Guide to Law Schools

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First of all, I agree with the other posters that a lot of information is packed into this magazine/guide. It might be worth your while to purchase it for that reason.

However, the discriminating consumer should be forewarned that some of the data contained in this guide is inaccurate. The data is self-reported data collected from law schools. Since all the schools want to increase their U.S. News ranking, they sometimes report information that is inaccurate--or arguably fraudulent. I found this out the hard way. I attended a Top 20 U.S. News Law School. When I enrolled in the law school--and ever since--U.S. News has reported that the school I attended has roughly a 97% employment rate at graduation and that the median salary for graduates of my school was close to $100,000.

The year I graduated from the school--2004--maybe 40-50% of students had jobs at graduation. Many classmates of mine, for all I know, do not have jobs as of today. Of those students...Read more

This is an excellent resource guide with useful information and summaries of all the ABA-approved law schools. The book provides detailed descriptions of the top 4 law schools- Yale, Harvard, Stanford, and NYU- as well. The book provides applicable and objective information, as opposed to other books which just spout off the obvious facts.

This is a great reference to anyone applying or thinking of applying to law school. Whether or not you agree with the influence US News has in law school admissions it remains a fact of life. It is a system that is inherently flawed, but along with the rankings, this book gives detail on each school which you can and should use to further investigate the schools to which you apply. Don't let the US News rankings dictate where you apply and don't let this book replace a campus visit and talking with the dean of admissions with a prospective school. Use it to supplement those things.