If your children ranked you, how would you do?

The following is a ranking of law schools using the elements that students found important. Not how the students would rank them, but how an outsider would rank them if they used the criteria that students found important.



I got that chart from an interesting blog, that also had the following to say:

Two weeks ago, I blogged the lists of the Top 10 law schools in eleven categories posted on Princeton Review's web site in connection with its publication of the 2008 edition of Best 170 Law Schools. The rankings are the result of Princeton Review's survey of 18,000 students at the 170 law schools, along with school statistics provided by administrators.

Last week, with the help of my assistant, I extracted from the individual profiles of the 170 law schools all of the available data and blogged the Top 25 and Bottom 25 schools in each of six categories:

* Academic Experience
* Admissions Selectivity
* Career Preparation
* Professors: Accessible
* Professors: Interesting
* Study Hours

At http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/10/princeton-rev-7.html

Visit the link to have the bullet points work to send you to the sources

Interesting, in many ways this is "ratings, as they would be if students controlled them."

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But that got me to thinking. Did you ever wonder how you would be rated by your children if their criteria were used to rate you? Would you find something to learn from it?

The question isn't how your children rate you, but how you would fare if rated by the things they find important.

I learned something from thinking about the rankings in those terms, applying the same perspectives to myself.