New Study: Forget the Rankings, Just Bring Home Straight A’s

[WSJ Law Blog]

Go to the best law school you get into is advice that's been handed down to generations of law students. But a new study argues that it's not necessarily the best advice.

In a new paper, UCLA law professor Richard Sander and Brooklyn law professor Jane Yakowitz argue no. “Eliteness” of the school you attended matters much less, they found, than your GPA.

The work is part of a continuing effort to examine preferences and law school, specifically, whether affirmative action actually hurts those it’s most supposed to benefit. Sander has previously argued that minority law students will often do better academically (and on the bar) if they attend a less-competitive school.

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