<p>This is copied from a post elsewhere but I think is relevant:</p>
<p>In terms of the Law School, Stanford and Yale have class size that is 1/3 of Harvard. The U.S. News uses criteria that puts large programs at a severe disadvantage such as the amount of money spent per student, student-faculty ratio, and acceptance rate. What is arguably much more important is the quality of instruction and how the graduates perform after graduation and here Harvard is undisputably the most successful and influential law school in America. 12% of the entire U.S. Senate is composed of graduates of a single law school, Harvard. Looking at the composition of the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Appeals Court, the U.S. Attorney General’s Office, the district attorney’s offices nationwide, and the top law firms in the U.S., Harvard Law graduates are the dominant force. Yale does do a better job of churning out academics on a per capita basis, but since Harvard’s class size is 3 times as big, in absolute numbers, Harvard still produces more academics and many more real world lawyers than these schools.</p>