Law School Ranking
Effective Spring 2007
Beginning with the students completing their second and third years in Spring 2007, class rank shall be computed annually. The ranking is only for the following purposes:
- to award academic honors, including graduation awards, prizes, or membership in scholarly societies, including Order of the Coif, legal journals and reviews; or
- to define percentile bands of 5%, 10%, 20%, 33% at the conclusion of the second and third years (after the submission and calculation of Spring quarter grades). Students are not ranked at the end of their first year.
Only students who achieve a spot in one of the percentile bands are notified of the percentile band that they place. In addition, students who are ranked first through fifth in their class are notified of a individual rank. Students who are below the 33% cut off have no ranking. Neither students' individual class rank nor the grade point average (GPA) cut-offs for the percentile bands described above may appear on a student's transcript.
Under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA), release of an individual student's placement within the defined GPA percentile bands by the law school requires the written permission of the student. To further preserve student privacy, additional ranking information, including the GPA percentile bands, will not be disclosed by the law school.
Questions related to this policy or FERPA should be directed to the law school registrar at .