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The Worst Law Schools in the Country! 1 100 Texas Souther...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
NC Central is ranked WAY too high.
Impertinent State
  11/08/04
You don't think it's the 21st worst law school?
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Do they even let you graduate with a 1.5 GPA?
Exciting plum gaming laptop
  11/08/04
That's the reputation score. Sorry I didn't get my methodol...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
...METHODOLOGY...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Ah.
Exciting plum gaming laptop
  11/08/04
You forgot Penn
Hyperventilating newt
  11/08/04
I call bullshit. If you include number of students and li...
Chartreuse sadistic stead
  11/08/04
Regent is the worst law school in the country. Thurgood Mar...
vermilion heady love of her life set
  09/13/08
Bad schools with high LSATs...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
i call bullshit. remember, there are pleanty of non-ABA a...
sexy razzmatazz temple
  11/08/04
My list is a list of bad law schools that still (could) lead...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
i know people who went to non-ABA schools and have still bee...
sexy razzmatazz temple
  11/08/04
They can't practice anywhere in the country. This is a nati...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
i would think that not being able to practice anywhere in th...
sexy razzmatazz temple
  11/08/04
"you should just accept the fact that your rankings are...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Well then, dont mind if I do... 1) Cooley 2) Cooley 3) ...
lime motley stag film
  11/08/04
Texas Southern and its stellar LSAT belong in there somewher...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
True, but the very fact that Cooley publishes its own bullsh...
lime motley stag film
  11/08/04
Why not look at bar passage rate as well? Even if an enterin...
Brass crackhouse jew
  11/08/04
"Why not look at bar passage rate as well?" Bec...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
So, it is what matters in the end. Besides, the school's bar...
Brass crackhouse jew
  11/08/04
"Besides, the school's bar passage rate can be represen...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Actually, TTT's are very representive of out of state bar ex...
Brass crackhouse jew
  11/08/04
The bar passage rate for school is the pass rate where most ...
Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry
  11/08/04
Wrong on all counts. TTTs are more local. They more stro...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
I don't think the bar passage rates at Texas Southern and Co...
Brass crackhouse jew
  11/08/04
which one do you go to mobi? you ttt poster
Sepia gas station
  11/08/04
I sit right behind you at Florida Coastal.
Claret hell
  11/08/04
the only difference is that I act like I go there so I can t...
Sepia gas station
  11/08/04
Of course I take notes. I later use them as leverage to gat...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
73? Why not do the top 200 worst? We could just read the...
Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry
  11/08/04
"We could just read the US news upside down." N...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Syracuse, Vermont, Maine, Creighton... not many but some. ...
Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry
  11/08/04
I don't see what you're bitching about. Those are at the bo...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
"worst"
Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry
  11/08/04
Boo hoo. It's better than being at the top of the list. ...
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Where Thurgood Marshall's name is...
Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry
  11/08/04
WTF?
Claret hell
  11/08/04
South texas and Tech are good options in Texas. Not so good ...
doobsian soul-stirring house
  11/08/04
Ha. Is Creighton actually pronounced "cretin"? I'v...
Crusty base
  11/08/04
I've heard it pronounced "Cray-ton" (at least by s...
Black supple police squad ratface
  11/08/04
And somehow 99% of the people at these schools find more int...
Sienna bateful heaven french chef
  11/08/04
With 148s? Not likely.
Claret hell
  11/08/04
Bump. Lulz. I am laughing at these horrible schools 1) becau...
Razzle slippery puppy
  09/12/08
lulz.
talented metal spot foreskin
  09/12/08
lol
nudist background story bbw
  09/13/08
Appropriate that this guy is ranking TTTs, because that's tr...
domesticated telephone
  09/12/08
The OP was among the smartest posters we had for several yea...
Odious Mewling Sanctuary Digit Ratio
  09/12/08
There are actually law schools that will take you with a sub...
gold vivacious school
  09/12/08
i didn't even know cuny queens had a law school.
Ivory ceo selfie
  09/12/08
How was Fordham left off of this list? It must have been ...
nudist background story bbw
  09/13/08


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Date: November 8th, 2004 4:07 PM
Author: Claret hell

The Worst Law Schools in the Country!

1 100 Texas Southern University (Thurgood Marshall)1 143.5 1.55

2 98 Thomas M. Cooley Law School (MI) 145 1.5

3 89 Southern University 1 (LA) 146 1.6

4 88 Florida Coastal School of Law 151.5 1.35

5 81 Thomas Jefferson School of Law (CA) 151.5 1.45

6 80 St. Thomas University (FL) 150 1.55

7 80 Texas Wesleyan University 152 1.45

8 78 Touro College (Jacob D. Fuchsberg) (NY) 149.5 1.6

9 77 Oklahoma City University 148 1.7

10 77 Regent University (VA) 151 1.55

11 77 Roger Williams University (RI) 151 1.55

12 72 Western New England College (MA) 152.5 1.55

13 70 Golden Gate University (CA) 151 1.65

14 70 Mississippi College 149 1.75

15 70 University of Detroit Mercy 150 1.7

16 70 Whittier Law School (CA) 151 1.65

17 67 Chapman University (CA) 156 1.45

18 67 Nova Southeastern University (FL) 149 1.8

19 66 South Texas College of Law 151.5 1.7

20 64 California Western School of Law 153 1.65

21 64 North Carolina Central University 1 148 1.9

22 64 Northern Kentucky University (Chase) 152 1.7

23 61 St. Mary's University (TX) 152 1.75

24 59 New England School of Law (MA) 151.5 1.8

25 59 Ohio Northern University 150.5 1.85

26 53 CUNY – Queens College 150.5 1.95

27 52 Capital University (OH) 152 1.9

28 52 University of Baltimore 153 1.85

29 50 Northern Illinois University 155.5 1.75

30 50 Quinnipiac University (CT) 152.5 1.9

31 48 Campbell University (NC) 155 1.8

32 47 University of Tulsa (OK) 149.5 2.1

33 47 Widener University (DE/PA) 151.5 2

34 47 Texas Tech University 152.5 1.95

35 45 John Marshall Law School (IL) 153 1.95

36 45 University of Dayton (OH) 152 2

37 44 Hamline University (MN) 152.5 2

38 44 Franklin Pierce Law Center (NH) 152.5 2

39 42 University of South Dakota 151 2.1

40 39 University of North Dakota 151 2.15

41 39 Cleveland State University (Marshall) 152 2.1

42 36 Albany Law School-Union University (NY) 153 2.1

43 36 Pace University (NY) 154 2.05

44 36 Samford University (Cumberland) (AL) 154 2.05

45 36 Southwestern University School of Law (CA) 157 1.9

46 34 Suffolk University (MA) 155.5 2

47 34 Southern Illinois University – Carbondale 152.5 2.15

48 33 University of Akron (OH) 157 1.95

49 33 University of Memphis 155 2.05

50 31 University of Arkansas – Little Rock (Bowen) 153.5 2.15

51 31 Washburn University (KS) 152.5 2.2

52 31 West Virginia University 152.5 2.2

53 30 University of Wyoming 153 2.2

54 30 Duquesne University (PA) 154 2.15

55 28 Gonzaga University (WA) 152.5 2.25

56 28 Loyola University – New Orleans 152.5 2.25

57 28 Stetson University (FL) 152.5 2.25

58 28 University of Idaho 154.5 2.15

59 27 New York Law School 155 2.15

60 25 Michigan State Univ. – DCL Col. of Law 155.5 2.15

61 25 Creighton University (NE) 151.5 2.35

62 25 Howard University (DC) 151.5 2.35

63 25 University of the Pacific (McGeorge) (CA) 156.5 2.1

64 23 Valparaiso University (IN) 154 2.25

65 23 William Mitchell College of Law (MN) 156 2.15

66 19 Willamette University (OR) 154.5 2.3

67 17 Vermont Law School 153 2.4

68 16 Drake University (IA) 154.5 2.35

69 8 University of Maine 156 2.4

70 6 DePaul University (IL) 156.5 2.4

71 6 Syracuse University (NY) 152.5 2.6

72 5 Wayne State University (MI) 155 2.5

73 0 Penn State University (Dickinson School of Law) 154.5 2.6



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620419)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:09 PM
Author: Impertinent State

NC Central is ranked WAY too high.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620424)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:14 PM
Author: Claret hell

You don't think it's the 21st worst law school?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620446)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:09 PM
Author: Exciting plum gaming laptop

Do they even let you graduate with a 1.5 GPA?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620425)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:10 PM
Author: Claret hell

That's the reputation score. Sorry I didn't get my methodology up faster.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620430)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:09 PM
Author: Claret hell
Subject: ...METHODOLOGY...

The schools were ranked based on the average of their 25th and 75th percentile LSAT scores plus 20 times the average of their reputation scores.

The scores were then normalized to 100 and ranked with the lowest score being 100 and the highest score being 0.

The first number is the school's rank. The second number is the normalized score. The numbers following the schools are the average of the 25th and 75th LSAT and the average reputation score.

Edit: The schools and information were taken from USNews' list of 3rd and 4th tier schools.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620426)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:10 PM
Author: Exciting plum gaming laptop

Ah.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620431)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:10 PM
Author: Hyperventilating newt

You forgot Penn

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620429)





Date: November 8th, 2004 6:51 PM
Author: Chartreuse sadistic stead

I call bullshit.

If you include number of students and library square footage, Cooley would be ranked much higher.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1621374)





Date: September 13th, 2008 9:05 AM
Author: vermilion heady love of her life set

Regent is the worst law school in the country. Thurgood Marshall is Harvard compared to Regent. Only reason to go to Regent is if you are a fundie and want to spend your whole career in fundie non-profits. Job prospects are zero and nobody will ever respect you or think you are a real lawyer. At least the other schools get some respect.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10156086)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:14 PM
Author: Claret hell
Subject: Bad schools with high LSATs...

Having a predicted LSAT median of 157, Southwestern University School of Law (CA) and University of Akron (OH) are our high LSAT winners!



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620443)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:15 PM
Author: sexy razzmatazz temple

i call bullshit.

remember, there are pleanty of non-ABA approved law schools in the country.

these ones are all ABA approved, at least.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620452)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:22 PM
Author: Claret hell

My list is a list of bad law schools that still (could) lead to practicing law anywhere in the country. This is partly because information on the other schools is unavailable.

If you don't like my rankings, you're free to Leiter it up and make your own rankings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620480)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:23 PM
Author: sexy razzmatazz temple

i know people who went to non-ABA schools and have still been practicing for years (some making tons of money)

own up to it. you're rankings research is just lazy.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620488)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:33 PM
Author: Claret hell

They can't practice anywhere in the country. This is a national site, silly. We don't want regional rankings here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620544)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:36 PM
Author: sexy razzmatazz temple

i would think that not being able to practice anywhere in the country would be one of the things that seperates the worst from the rest.

again, your rankings do not rank the worst, just the worst that are easy to look up. if you want to start limiting which schools to include in the worst to schools that are better than the worst, then go ahead, but you should just accept the fact that your rankings are lazy and move on.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620564)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:52 PM
Author: Claret hell

"you should just accept the fact that your rankings are lazy and move on."

Lazy + national in scope = amazing.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620674)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:19 PM
Author: lime motley stag film

Well then, dont mind if I do...

1) Cooley

2) Cooley

3) Cooley

4) Cooley

5) Concord Online Law School

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620838)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:27 PM
Author: Claret hell

Texas Southern and its stellar LSAT belong in there somewhere.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620902)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:35 PM
Author: lime motley stag film

True, but the very fact that Cooley publishes its own bullshit rankings confirms its status as the ultimate TTT.

However, TSU could move up on Concord for 5th worst.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620954)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:47 PM
Author: Brass crackhouse jew

Why not look at bar passage rate as well? Even if an entering LSAT range was low, a bar passage rate could say something different about a particular school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620647)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:53 PM
Author: Claret hell

"Why not look at bar passage rate as well?"

Because all bar exams are not created equal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620679)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:02 PM
Author: Brass crackhouse jew

So, it is what matters in the end. Besides, the school's bar passage rate can be representive of the bar exams from several states.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620738)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:06 PM
Author: Claret hell

"Besides, the school's bar passage rate can be representive of the bar exams from several states."

TTTs are too local for that.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620762)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:18 PM
Author: Brass crackhouse jew

Actually, TTT's are very representive of out of state bar exams. People end up there because they couldn't get in anywhere else which often includes your home state.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620831)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:20 PM
Author: Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry

The bar passage rate for school is the pass rate where most take the bar. Vermont for example never seems to use VT bar. NY or Mass I think.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620843)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:26 PM
Author: Claret hell

Wrong on all counts.

TTTs are more local. They more strongly tend to attract local students. They more strongly tend to keep students in the area.

And the bar exams vary widely.

If you disagree, in normalized terms relevant to the entire ranking, tell me what the bar passage rate at Texas Southern means relative to the par passage rates at Cooley and California Western.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620892)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:34 PM
Author: Brass crackhouse jew

I don't think the bar passage rates at Texas Southern and Cooley would necessarily be that different. But I see other schools on your list that have drastically different bar passage rates from Cooley or Texas Southern. If I am completely wrong, I will admit it, but I always thought the bar passage rate for the school reflected the bar passage rates of that particular school's students. I'm not sure what else you are saying it is.

I just disagree in general with saying that TTT's don't have a lot of out of state students.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620943)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:48 PM
Author: Sepia gas station

which one do you go to mobi? you ttt poster

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620654)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:54 PM
Author: Claret hell

I sit right behind you at Florida Coastal.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620683)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:57 PM
Author: Sepia gas station

the only difference is that I act like I go there so I can talk to some fine latina chicks and you're actually taking notes 'cause you go there. you ttt you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620702)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:59 PM
Author: Claret hell

Of course I take notes. I later use them as leverage to gather an orgy of those same fine Latina chicks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620716)





Date: November 8th, 2004 4:59 PM
Author: Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry

73?

Why not do the top 200 worst? We could just read the US news upside down.

Find a sex partner, a hobby, and some self esteem.

Some of these laws schools are really good law schools. That is true no matter what this tool thinks.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620723)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:00 PM
Author: Claret hell

"We could just read the US news upside down."

Nope. Tiers 3 and 4 aren't ranked.

"Some of these laws schools are really good law schools."

Like which ones?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620726)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:11 PM
Author: Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry

Syracuse, Vermont, Maine, Creighton...

not many but some.

Not supreme court clerk good but not many are.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620787)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:22 PM
Author: Claret hell

I don't see what you're bitching about. Those are at the bottom of the list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620861)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:26 PM
Author: Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry

"worst"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620896)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:30 PM
Author: Claret hell

Boo hoo.

It's better than being at the top of the list.

Even if they're "good" in some sort of warped absolute sense, that doesn't change their relative rankings.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620924)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:31 PM
Author: Buck-toothed Garrison Faggotry

Where Thurgood Marshall's name is...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620933)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:34 PM
Author: Claret hell

WTF?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620946)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:29 PM
Author: doobsian soul-stirring house

South texas and Tech are good options in Texas. Not so good if you have options outside of the Lone Star State.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1620920)





Date: November 8th, 2004 5:57 PM
Author: Crusty base

Ha. Is Creighton actually pronounced "cretin"? I've always thought about how funny that'd be.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1621096)





Date: November 8th, 2004 7:01 PM
Author: Black supple police squad ratface

I've heard it pronounced "Cray-ton" (at least by someone I knew who applied to dental school there).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1621439)





Date: November 8th, 2004 6:59 PM
Author: Sienna bateful heaven french chef

And somehow 99% of the people at these schools find more intelligent uses for their time than the OP.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1621430)





Date: November 8th, 2004 7:41 PM
Author: Claret hell

With 148s? Not likely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#1621688)





Date: September 12th, 2008 11:25 PM
Author: Razzle slippery puppy

Bump. Lulz. I am laughing at these horrible schools 1) because they are horrible and 2) because I don't feel good about myself. That is why everyone on this board cares about TTTs. If we were normal, we wouldn't really care.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155260)





Date: September 12th, 2008 11:46 PM
Author: talented metal spot foreskin

lulz.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155365)





Date: September 13th, 2008 12:17 AM
Author: nudist background story bbw

lol

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155459)





Date: September 12th, 2008 11:37 PM
Author: domesticated telephone

Appropriate that this guy is ranking TTTs, because that's truly a TTT methodology he used. I could think of about ten different and superior and far more representative ways to do this, but I have a life and don't give a shit.

Most likely created by some insecure T40 level douche who got a B in stats and totally thought he pwn3d the lsat with a smoking 161.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155324)





Date: September 12th, 2008 11:51 PM
Author: Odious Mewling Sanctuary Digit Ratio

The OP was among the smartest posters we had for several years.

In any event, why are you defending those TTTs? You went to one, didn't you?

P.S. LOL @ your taking all this way too seriously.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155378)





Date: September 12th, 2008 11:39 PM
Author: gold vivacious school

There are actually law schools that will take you with a sub-150 LSAT? I wonder if they issue drool bibs at orientation?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155334)





Date: September 12th, 2008 11:43 PM
Author: Ivory ceo selfie

i didn't even know cuny queens had a law school.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155354)





Date: September 13th, 2008 12:19 AM
Author: nudist background story bbw

How was Fordham left off of this list?

It must have been a better school four years ago.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=105009&forum_id=2#10155467)