Friday, July 10, 2009
Speaking for myself, the USNWR law school rankings are an eminently reasonable response to consumer demand for information about how to spend their educational dollars. One may quibble with USNWR's ranking formula and those ranked may argue about the results, but from the consumer's standpoint, the magazine by all appearances is providing a valuable service.
According to a recent Wall Street Journal report, however, USNWR is no longer content to confine its rankings to law schools. Rather, it now plans on ranking employers - the law firms themselves. That raises the question of why stop there? Why not just go whole-hog and rank all people? That way the USNWR ranking empire would be complete - consumers would need to consult USNWR before making any decision from which job to take to who to date.
All it takes is enough people to buy into it and USNWR can become mankind's tastemaker.
Remember - it was my idea first.
Hat tip to Above the Law.
I am the scholarship dude.