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&lt;p&gt;On Saturday, Brian Leiter released his rank of the 2009 Top 40 Law Schools by Student (Numerical) Quality.  How did he determine student quality?  LSAT scores.  According to his website, &quot;No feasible measure of student quality is particularly ideal, but LSAT scores are the best, crude proxy we have available.&quot;  To calculate the ranking, Leiter used the average of the 25th and 75th percentile LSAT scores for the fall 2008 incoming JD class.  For schools that have part-time and full-time programs, both program scores were included.  Class size and average GPA were tie breakers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do law schools need to be ranked by LSAT score?  With the myriad rankings that take into account more factors, such as class size, student-to-faculty ratios, career prospects and other valuable school qualities, what purpose does a re-ranking serve?  In addition, as Professor Paul Caron points out on his blog, Leiter&#39;s Top 18 are identical to the &lt;em&gt;U.S. News&lt;/em&gt; Top 18.  For fun, I&#39;ve put together a table of the Top 18 Leiter, &lt;em&gt;U.S. News&lt;/em&gt; and Vault rankings.  See how LSAT translates to academic experience and employability.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/articles/RankingbyLSATScore2009.png&quot; alt=&quot;Top 18 Law Schools by LSAT Score&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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