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After a total of eight reminder emails, law students at Boston College finally had our formal introduction to our new dean, Vincent Rougeau.  East Wing Room 115 looked more like a talk show set…

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Boston College Law School recently dropped in the U.S News & World Reports ranking down to #28.  What do you think BC could do to bring up our ranking?

In the current U.S. News & World Report rankings, BC has dipped from #26 to #28.  BU ranks higher than BC and is currently ranked at #22.  The ranking takes into account a peer assessment score, an assessment score by layers and judges, median LSAT score, median undergrad GPA, acceptance rate, employment rate and Bar passage rate.  It also takes into account faculty resources, expenditures per student, student/faculty ratio and library resources.  This year, BC’s assessment score by lawyers and judges fell from 3.7 to 3.6, our median GPA from 3.64 to 3.53, and our employment rate nine months after graduation from 98.1% to 97.4%.  However, we made gains in median LSAT score, student/faculty ratio, employment rate at graduation, bar passage rate and faculty resources.

“We must not lose our identity in chasing a few percentage points,” said Dean Garvey in a written memorandum emailed to the school on Wednesday.  The U.S. News rankings “cannot hope to capture the soul of an institution.”

Dean Garvey’s missive highlighted the inner workings of the U.S. News rankings system, listing the criteria used and noting that the schools ranked from 20 to 30 “are very tightly bunched.”  The memorandum sought to explain that despite BCLS’s ranking being identical to that of last year, a lot of variation should be expected.

“For the third straight time, I’ve got the rankings early,” reported the Critical Badger yesterday. It did not take long, however, for the Blackbook Legal Blog to suggest that “after much…