Stanford Pre-Law

JHS
Tue, 29 May 2018 21:04:44 +0000

Correction on size of law schools: Chicago is smaller than I thought it was. The average class sizes of the various law schools are Harvard 600, Columbia 400, Virginia 300, Yale and Chicago 200, Stanford 170. If you divide the number of Supreme Court clerks by average class size, you get Yale 1.2, Chicago and Stanford 0.5, Harvard 0.47, Virginia 0.19, Columbia 0.17. Anyway, that’s far from a perfect measure, and I wouldn’t overinterpret small differences, but I think that gives a good general sense of how elites view the elite law schools.