<p>Also, Maroon8, here’s what I get when you look at the top 15 schools according to US News (Texas and UCLA tie for 15th according to USN). (I’m just going on the US News data on the website, and then dividing the total number of students by 3 to get students per class)</p>
<p>Yale (588 students total, so 196 per class)</p>
<p>Harvard (1730 total, so 576 per class)</p>
<p>Stanford (539 total, so 180 per class)</p>
<p>Columbia (1266 total, so 422 per class)</p>
<p>NYU (1423 total, so 474 per class)</p>
<p>Chicago (593 total, so 197 per class)</p>
<p>Berkeley (865, so 288 per class)</p>
<p>UPenn (786, so 262 per class)</p>
<p>Michigan (1,151, so 383 per class)</p>
<p>Duke (611, so 204 per class)</p>
<p>Northwestern (779, so 260 per class)</p>
<p>Virginia (1155, so 385 per class)</p>
<p>Cornell (591, so 197 per class)</p>
<p>Georgetown (1631, so 545 per class)</p>
<p>UCLA (1012, so 337 per class)</p>
<p>Texas (1233, so 411 per class)</p>
<p>Overall for the top 15 or so schools, the class average is then about 333 per class. I don’t know a ton about law schools specifically, but I’ve heard the “Top 15” are roughly the most coveted schools in the country.</p>
<p>Again, I don’t quite buy your argument that our placement stats are worse because fewer and less qualified Chicago students apply to law school. While I believe we (we as in Chicago) are a very phd-preparation oriented school, but if you look at the LSAC data, we send out about as many law school apps per year as Columbia, Brown, Princeton, and Dartmouth - and all these schools are roughly the same size as Chicago. We have about the same number of students applying, and the data is publicly available for a school like Princeton - so it’d be interesting to see how we fare in the head to head analysis.</p>