Law Schools
Website Uses Student E-Mail Spam to Rank Top Party Law Schools
Posted May 12, 2009, 09:07 am CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
The Website SubtleDig has named Arizona State University College of Law the top party school, mainly based on a mass e-mail sent to law students.
The e-mail asked law students about their general happiness, how often they went out, their drug and alcohol consumption, and their dating success, SubtleDig explains. The answers accounted for 90 percent of the total score. The other 10 percent was based on the amount of bars and liquor stores within a mile radius of the law school.
“Though these rankings pages purport to rank the ‘party-ness’ of the top 102 law schools, they might better be described as ‘quality-of-life’ rankings,” the blog says. “Why the misnomer? Sensationalism mainly.”
The blog has analyzed the data and tapped these law schools as the top five for partying:
1) Arizona State.
2) Tulane University.
3) Seattle University.
4) A tie: Florida State and the University of Arizona.
Above the Law noted the survey and comments: “This list seems totally appropriate given the state of the economy. There's no point in going to law school if you're looking for an actual job. Might as well pick a school where you can have some fun for three years while you wait out the market crisis.”
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