Re: We have a new Law Dean
Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 4:42 pm
For the 2021 entering class, TCU had a 54% acceptance rate and 24% yield. SMU had a 53% acceptance rate and 19% yield. However, SMU is competing with a higher level of universities for its students. TCU had an SAT range of 1140-1345 and ACT range of 26-31 vs. 1350-1490 and 31-34 for SMU. Top 10% grads were 40% for TCU and 52% for SMU.
Graduation rates from the 2015 class were 83% at TCU and 82% at SMU.
TCU's president has done a terrific job but they're still quite a bit below the quality of SMU's student body.
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https://law.missouri.edu/person/lyrissa-lidsky/
Dean Lidsky at Missouri was apparently a finalist for the UT Law dean role. However, that role went to UT's current associate dean for academic affairs. UT also went "down the hall" to hire its dean at McCombs a few years ago. Would SMU have hired Lyrissa Lidsky from Missou? She's now gone back to Florida. Who cares where she went to college? The A&M Law Dean went to Princeton and then Yale Law but was most recently the named Professor of Private International Law and Director of the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance at Emory.
In the business school, Dean Myers seems a bit goofy while Niemi was a bit arrogant, which is more in line with b-school deans. However, apparent goofiness aside, Cox is starting a $140M construction project to transform the infrastructure. That should further boost its standing. My son considered FSU for b-school but they've struggled to raise $80M for a new building despite the state pitching in half the funds.
The new dorms at SMU were constructed in 2014. Hopefully the two year residency requirement will help boost the graduation rate. There's a new graduate research college with the Memphis chairperson to help boost SMU to Carnegie R1.
Graduation rates from the 2015 class were 83% at TCU and 82% at SMU.
TCU's president has done a terrific job but they're still quite a bit below the quality of SMU's student body.
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https://law.missouri.edu/person/lyrissa-lidsky/
Dean Lidsky at Missouri was apparently a finalist for the UT Law dean role. However, that role went to UT's current associate dean for academic affairs. UT also went "down the hall" to hire its dean at McCombs a few years ago. Would SMU have hired Lyrissa Lidsky from Missou? She's now gone back to Florida. Who cares where she went to college? The A&M Law Dean went to Princeton and then Yale Law but was most recently the named Professor of Private International Law and Director of the Center on Federalism and Intersystemic Governance at Emory.
In the business school, Dean Myers seems a bit goofy while Niemi was a bit arrogant, which is more in line with b-school deans. However, apparent goofiness aside, Cox is starting a $140M construction project to transform the infrastructure. That should further boost its standing. My son considered FSU for b-school but they've struggled to raise $80M for a new building despite the state pitching in half the funds.
The new dorms at SMU were constructed in 2014. Hopefully the two year residency requirement will help boost the graduation rate. There's a new graduate research college with the Memphis chairperson to help boost SMU to Carnegie R1.