<p>I am not arguing that the University of Chicago’s reputation doesn’t help its students. Of course it does. I was just suggesting that the Harvard Law School admissions staff – with or without institutional research support – probably has a pretty precise idea of the actual levels of grade inflation at all of the top colleges. It’s like all those private schools in New York that refuse to rank their students. That’s fine, but Harvard, Yale, and Princeton probably get enough applications from each class that they could generate the rankings themselves.</p>