Osler's Razor

GED3 sent me this wonderful link about the reactions at some schools to the release of the latest U.S. News rankings. Also of interest is this post and its attached lists, one of which shows that Baylor has the highest discrepancy of any school between its reputation with academics and its reputation with lawyers and judges.

I have been re-reading the comments on the last post about rankings, and have learned something-- the rankings really do matter to at least some students an alums, perhaps more than I realized. Intriguingly, Baylor is an anomoly in another way. Brian Leiter observed that the academic reputation for a school tends to adjust to the overall ranking for a school. That sure hasn't happened for us, as academic reputation has been a factor out of step with the others for Baylor over the past several years.