Some of the comments to my initial post suggested that compression in LSAT scores (for which I have only anecdotal evidence) is not necessarily a bad thing. For example, some folks noted that there is a signalling value that makes it easier to apply to schools where you are likely to get in. This is […]
Author Archive | Andrew Morriss
The segmented market in legal education:
We found very strong evidence that there is a difference between the top tier of law schools and the rest of the market. This may seem obvious (of course Harvard is different from a 4th tier school) but it is important nonetheless. Our basic regression model predicted change in median LSAT as a function of […]
Median LSAT scores and law school rankings:
Thanks to Eugene for inviting me to participate and talk about one of my favorite topics: legal education. Bill Henderson (Indiana) and I are dissecting the components of the U.S. News rankings in a series of papers, the first of which is now available on SSRN, and which we presented at a symposium at Indiana […]