Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. Albert Einstein (1879-1955), attributed From the Notices of the American Mathematical Society 53(2006)1049.
Number rules the universe. The Pythagoreans
Everything is number. The Pythagoreans
Wherever there is number, there is beauty.Proclus (AD 412-485).
USNews RANKING OF LAW SCHOOLS
The gold standard of law school rankings has been provided by the U.S. News and World Report (USN) publication BEST [AMERICAN] GRADUATE [AND PROFESSIONAL] SCHOOLS. The original US News Law School Ranking ranked the TOP TWENTY (1987). The top ten and the top sixteen of the November 1987 ranking of law schools are still the same (albeit their order has changed).
Every year, USNews and World News assigns a number to each law schools considered (199 law schools forc 2012); this number is called the OVERALL SCORE (a/k/a SCORE). The scores of the 2012 top 145 law schools have been made public. In the natural way, these scores determines the rank of the law schools.
The original US News Law School Ranking ranked the TOP TWENTY (1987). The top ten and the top sixteen of the November 1987 ranking of law schools are the same (albeit their order has changed).