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AUAP ranking is total quackery
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Michaeeel    Joined: 10 Mar 2005 Posts: 82 |
AUAP ranking is total quackery
On its website, AUAP says "This unique LL.M ranking is based on Selectivity, Starting salaries 6 month after graduation and international image of the institutions defined by a panel of recruiters. This year 95% of the LLM Graduates were employed 6 months after graduation with an average salary of USD 85.000"Fri Mar 11, 2005 08:51 PM But this ranking seems quite strange : Cardoso Law School (??) is ranked sixth, Fordham is ranked seventh, Vanderbilt ninth, and Tulane tenth : these are not even in the top tier "official" rankings of US law schools !! Yale only appears at the 12th position : how strange !! Then come San Diego, Wake Forest ... Stanford is not on it, neither are University of Virginia, Michigan, Berkeley ... This is total quackery ! Making money is their top priority but objectivity is not ! |
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| bonobo
Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 27 |
Re: AUAP ranking is total quackery
I am reposting something I wrote a few weeks ago on this topic:Fri Mar 11, 2005 11:44 PM I would like to warn anyone who relies on AUAP’s ranking of LL.M. programs. This ranking is not only unreliable, it is also fraudulent. You will notice that AUAP provides absolutely no methodology or numbers or statistics to back up its ranking. AUAP’s objective is not to provide a real ranking, but to convince its clients (students who pay them $$$ for help with admissions) that they are getting them admitted into a “top school”, when they only succeed in sending them to very weak or average schools. Many schools on that list are second or third tier schools: for example LSU, Cardozo, Penn State, Tulane, etc… Some of the above schools are not even among the top 50 best law schools in the US! Moreover, several exceptional programs, such as Michigan, Virginia, and Stanford, which are clearly top 10 schools, are curiously missing from AUAP’s list. For anyone who wants a real ranking of how a law school is viewed in the United-States, please see Brian Lighter’s faculty quality ranking or the US News ranking. |
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| Shumelka Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 55 |
Re: AUAP ranking is total quackery
not to mention that their service is a complete joke:-(
Fri Apr 08, 2005 05:20 AM |
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| Joseph1 Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 127 |
Re: AUAP ranking is total quackery
Does anyone take it seriously?Fri Apr 08, 2005 06:58 AM Did anyone use their service? |
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