Pre-Law Students Rank Penn Most Overrated on Chat Board
Pre-law students participating in a pre-law chat board have ranked the University of Pennsylvania the most overrated law school.
About 20 percent of the 259 students participating in the poll chose Penn, followed by Cornell, which got about 14 percent of the vote, and Georgetown, with a little less than 14 percent of the vote, TaxProf Blog reports. The numbers have changed slightly since the blog posted a summary of the findings.
The poll asked students to choose the most overrated school out of U.S. News & World Report’s top 14 schools. Penn was ranked sixth by U.S. News. Its top school, Yale, was voted most overrated by fewer than 5 percent of the students.
University of Texas law professor Brian Leiter, who has ranked Yale the No.1 law school, says in a post at his blog that Penn “clearly has many strengths” but “ranking the school ahead of Michigan, Berkeley et al., or tying it with Chicago, seems quite out of whack with other pertinent indicators of excellence, such as [U.S.] Supreme Court clerkships, placement in law teaching, scholarly impact of the faculty, and so on.”
