Saturday, October 20, 2007

See these bags under my eyes?

This is downright amazing. Baylor is ranked number 3 in the nation for most hours spent preparing for class on average. We are highest in Texas, and the only one in the top 25. More interesting, though, perhaps, is a look at the bottom 25, which includes Virginia (147), Harvard (151), UCLA (157), NYU (158), Yale (162), and U of Texas (169!*). But let's look at the real numbers:
  • Baylor = 5.68 hours per day spent studying.
  • Virginia = 3.77
  • Harvard = 3.74
  • UCLA = 3.58
  • NYU = 3.56
  • Yale = 3.50
  • U of Texas = 3.23

Wow. I'm really not sure what to think about this.

*Only North Carolina Central is lower, with a paltry 2.52 hours per day.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

We are also ranked number 2 in the top 10 most competitive schools category. Which makes me wonder why, when I asked the administrators if this was a competive school, they told me "not at all." Yeah, right.

Jeremy Masten said...

I gotta say, tho--we don't have people cutting pages out of library books or anything. Which makes me wonder--just how anti-competitive are some schools?

Anonymous said...

I think you can be competitive without being a douche -- I agree that we're very competitive, we're just not all blatant assholes, and I think that's a good thing. You want to do the best you possibly can, you want a great grade, and that might mean that the person next to you *wont* get a great grade. But you don't have to spill coffee on their laptop (douchebaggery) - you just bust your balls at working really freaking hard (competitiveness), hence the billion hours of studying, gray hair, and ulcers.

Anonymous said...

Yeah I really don't buy that baylor is "more competitive." What? do people at other law schools just not try? I don't believe that. I know people that go to other law schools and they bitch about studying just as much as we do. But I do see two areas that set us apart. 1.) We spend more time studying because we have more finals. 50% more a year. At BLS it is always either finals or about to be finals. 2.) We have to kill ourelves during 3rd year PC while 3L's at other schools play golf.

Damien Daniels said...

It’s impressive that Baylor students dedicate so much time to their studies.