It’s time for me to come clean about something here… I’m a graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno. Consequently, I am honor-bound to hate, despise, loathe, and generally find annoying anything that relates to our southern rival. They cover this during orientation. I’m not quite as fanatic about that as some people I know, but I do experience a certain sense of schadenfreude when I see them do poorly at something.

So, there I was, reading Instapundit as always, when I come across this - it’s a listing of rankings for law schools. So, I click on the link, promptly ignore Glenn’s choice in schools (Does anyone really care about Tennessee?), hit CTRL-F, type in “UNLV”, and I find…

96. (2.3)
Georgia State (77)
Howard (Tier 3)
LSU (88)
Louisville (100)
Maine (Tier 3)
Missouri-Kansas City (Tier 3)
Penn State (77)
Seattle (83)
South Carolina (95)
UNLV (88)
Vermont (Tier 3)
Wayne State (Tier 3)

That ranking puts UNLV just in the bottom 50% (182 schools total - at Nevada, you learn that half of 182 is 91), which gives me that gentle little smile that I needed to get me through the day.

Ah, schadenfreude… I bet UNLV graduates don’t even know what that word means. Heck, they probably think the word is French.

PS: Yes, I know that their overall ranking is 88, which is just barely above 91. However, their peers find them so contemptible that they only got 96th, so it still balances out. In fact, if you average the two numbers (another skill they don’t teach at UNLV, by the way), you get 92, which means that, on average, UNLV is still just below average… and, with that, all is right with the world.

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