For years, U.S. News & World Report eschewed the U.S. News and World Reporting parts of its job to put out the definitive prestige ranking for law schools...
But as schools complained and programs calcified in the rankings, the publication began tweaking the methodology to provide more movement...
While USNWR and the law schools went to war and the rankings became increasingly janky, a funny thing happened... the prospective students stopped caring...
Using a correlation function, we compared the change in a law school's position in two consecutive years with its change in position in the revealed preferences rankings...
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