SORE LOSERS: Yale and Harvard Pull Out of US Rankings After Destroying Themselves With WOKE Lunacy

These thumbsuckers have destroyed once great institutions and instead of facing reality they forfeit the field. As Ayn Rand so brilliantly said, ‘you can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.’

Yale and Harvard law schools withdraw from US News rankings (Guardian);

Yale and Harvard law schools both said on Wednesday they will no longer participate in US News & World Report’s annual ranking of law schools, the biggest shake-up to the closely watched list in years.

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Yale, which has captured the No 1 spot every year since US News began ranking law schools in 1990, was first to announce the decision. Hours later, the Harvard Law dean, John Manning, informed students it would do the same. The school is ranked No 4.

Both schools said the rankings were in conflict with commitments to diversity

Before Pulling Out of Rankings, Yale Law School Took a Hit on Key Metric

Amid controversies over free speech, the school’s ‘peer assessment’ score pushed it below the competition

By: Aaron Sibarium •  Washington Free Beacon •  November 17, 2022:

Yale Law School dean Heather Gerken is framing the school’s decision to pull out of the U.S. News & World Report law-school rankings as an altruistic one, arguing that the “profoundly flawed” rankings “disincentivize programs that support public interest careers.”

But a closer look at those rankings suggests that Yale, which has over the past year been the locus of a fierce debate about free speech and drawn unwanted attention for its response to campus controversies, may have had a selfish reason to jump ship. The elite law school was starting to slip on one of the key indicators that determine a law school’s overall ranking, according to U.S. News & World Report‘s published methodology, raising questions about how long it would continue to occupy the number-one slot.

The “peer assessment” score is a measure of how deans and tenured professors across the country rate a law school’s quality on a scale of 1 to 5. Accounting for 25 percent of each school’s overall rank, this metric is the single most important factor in U.S. News & World Report law-school rankings—and one reason why Yale consistently lands at the top of them.

For many years, the law school’s peer assessment score hovered between a 4.8 and a 4.9, which meant it usually tied or exceeded Harvard and Stanford’s scores. But in March 2022—amid the free speech controversies, including the administration’s abuse and intimidation of a second-year law student, that thrust the top-ranked school into the national spotlight—Yale’s peer assessment score dropped to 4.6, its lowest in over a decade.

Though the drop didn’t dislodge Yale from its number-one position overall, it did put the school behind Harvard and Stanford in the reputational rankings, a sign that the law school’s perch was more precarious than it once seemed. Further hits to the peer assessment score could have pushed Yale to second or third place for the first time since U.S. News & World Report began ranking law schools, shattering a major source of its prestige.

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Go Woke Go Broke.

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ed

1 year ago

Reply to  Snowedin

DIE-versity kills…

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Francisco D'Anconia

1 year ago

Ayn Rand? I have been banned from this website for being an Objectivist and quoting Ayn Rand!

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Snowedin

1 year ago

Reply to  Francisco D'Anconia

The comments section is monitored by Disqus. No surprise.

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Joe

1 year ago

Yale and Harvard law schools are not what they’re cracked up to be. I’ve personally seen clients of Yale and Harvard law school graduates that are NYS attorneys, take a shellacking in court because their attorneys didn’t know procedural law. I’d take a Brooklyn Law or St. John’s Law graduate as my attorney any day over an Ivy Law educated attorney.

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Watcher

1 year ago

Reply to  Joe

Read a little Matt Yglesias, who can’t manage simple graphs or spelling, and your opinion of Harvard will sink even lower.

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Anna Heindlicher

1 year ago

Reply to  Joe

Brooklyn Law and St. John’s have had the most esteemed reputations in the country for nearly a century. It’s not that well known because of stupid ” Ivy ” worship.

Pay ridiculous tuitions for presumed prestige.

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Sgt Sefton

1 year ago

They seem to have similar psychology to that of a child molestor.

They seem to believe that it’s ok for them to lie, to manipulate data and people … that basically normal rules of academic reputation no longer apply to them.

How can this end well?

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Perhaps this is not a bad moment for Americans to reassess their assumptions about “education.” “higher education,” college, personal expenses, and what they really want out of Life.

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Glen

1 year ago

They deserve to be downgraded. Excepting less qualified students who are also woke. Even judges are so upset with their behavior they are refusing to hire Yale law students for clerkships.

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Watcher

1 year ago

Daniel Golden has written of the way Harvard et al. had these rankings reworked to drive down the position of the true no. 1, Caltech. Caltech has the world’s highest proportion of Nobel winners to its very highly selective, very low number of undergrads and has, fully objectively, the lowest acceptance rate of purely merit-based admissions undergrads.
Now Harvard throws a tantrum and demands even more to play ball.

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Merchantseamen

1 year ago

UVA is rushing down the same road to ruin along with Washington and Lee. The DEI and Deans who are communists and cowards who embrace every little upset the faculty and students have. W&L now want to drop Lee. The head of UVA now runs the City of Charlottesville. City Council now runs everything by him. If they don’t’ do what he says he will “hurt” them. VMI also faces this dilemma however an Alumni just took back his million dollars and told them the what for. The alumni has the power if they weren’t cowards also.

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Unforgiven56

1 year ago

What they are saying is that their diversity will most certainly bring down their rankings. They do not want any evidence of that.

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