The University of California, Berkeley's law school joined Harvard's and Yale's law programs in pulling out of U.S. News & World Report's rankings Thursday over concerns that they punish efforts to attract students from a broad range of backgrounds.
Deans of all three law schools said the magazine's influential ranking system is biased against programs meant to increase socioeconomic diversity, support lower-income students, and encourage the pursuit of public service.
"We will continue to fulfill our journalistic mission of ensuring that students can rely on the best and most accurate information in making that decision," Gertler said in a written statement."As part of our mission, we must continue to ensure that law schools are held accountable for the education they will provide to these students and that mission does not change with these recent announcements.
"The way you move up in the rankings is that you become more selective, which means you're keeping more people out, particularly a diversity of people," he said. Not long after the Yale announcement, Harvard Law School Dean John Manning wrote in his own blog post Wednesday that he and other law school leaders had previously expressed concerns to U.S. News about the rankings. In particular, he said the prioritization of LSAT scores and college grades encourages law schools to use scholarships to attract higher-scoring candidates, directing resources away from need-based financial aid that would help less affluent students.
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