Is it time for Penn Law to embrace lucky number seven?
For the second straight year, Penn Law School has been ranked seventh in the U.S. News & World Report's list of top law schools. Yale was listed as the top law school while Harvard and Stanford tied for second.
The U.S. News list uses 12 different factors to rank the schools, including selectivity, LSAT scores, GPA, bar passage rate and expenditures per student.
Penn was the fourth highest ranked law school in the Ivy League for 2016 behind Yale, Harvard and Columbia, the latter of which was tied for fourth. Cornell ranked 13th.
The full top 10 is as follows.
1. Yale
t-2. Harvard
t-2. Stanford
t-4. Columbia
t-4. University of Chicago
6. NYU
7. Penn
t-8. Duke
t-8. California-Berkeley
t-8. Virginia
Here's U.S News' methodology for determining the rankings. Here's the full list of top law schools in the U.S. for 2016.
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