Brian Leiter Ranking by Quality of Student Body, 2000-02

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Based on an average of the 75th and 25th percentile scores for the fall 1999 class: 60% of the rank is based on LSAT, 40% is based on GPA. As noted earlier, it is of course easier for smaller schools to boost the 75th percentile numbers than larger schools: thus, we find that all the schools with surprisingly "strong" student bodies by the measures employed here are unusually small (e.g. Washington-Seattle, Washington & Lee, Colorado). Hence, I list total size of the student body for purposes of comparison.

Note that many schools which report high LSATs do so by cutting corners on GPA, which may account for some of the "surprising" results on the list below.

This top 50 list is based on a study of all law schools.

Rank	School	Total student body size
1.	Yale University	593
2.	Harvard University	1658
3.	New York University	1355
4.	Stanford University	541
4.	University of Chicago	560
6.	University of California, Berkeley	846
7.	Columbia University	1132
7.	University of Virginia	1105
9.	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	1030
10.	University of Pennsylvania	766
11.	Georgetown University	2030
12.	University of California, Los Angeles	976
13.	Duke University	608
14.	Cornell University	543
14.	Northwestern University	646
16.	University of Texas, Austin	1374
16.	Vanderbilt University	548
18.	University of Minnesota, Twin Cities	744
18.	University of Washington, Seattle	489
20.	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill	690
20.	University of Southern California	621
22.	Brigham Young University	449
23.	Fordham University	1476
23.	Washington & Lee University	366
25.	University of Colorado, Boulder	489
25.	University of Georgia	633
27.	Boston College	823
27.	University of Notre Dame	538
29.	George Washington University	1403
30.	Baylor University	423
31.	Boston University	939
32.	College of William & Mary	528
33.	Emory University	642
34.	University of Arizona	460
34.	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	592
36.	University of California, Hastings	1146
36.	University of Kentucky	418
38.	University of Utah	349
39.	University of California, Davis	503
40.	Ohio State University	640
40.	University of Iowa	654
42.	University of Florida, Gainesville	1123
42.	University of Nebraska, Lincoln	393
42.	Washington University, St. Louis	622
45.	George Mason University	741
45.	University of Cincinnati	368
45.	University of Connecticut	575
45.	Wake Forest University	469
49.	Tulane University	943
49.	University of Houston	1002
49.	University of San Diego	980

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