To me the rankings are kind of silly...US News and World Report weights "Reputation" as 40% of a school's ranking score. How in the world are smaller or newer universities supposed to compete with that?
It's a popularity contest, and schools **LOVE** to win. UCLA tied with Berkeley this year in the public school rankings, and I've received three or four emails from UCLA celebrating this "accomplishment."
... . The US News law school rankings are also slightly b.s ... of entering students. The ATL rankings take into account bar passage ... move up in the ATL rankings.
I am a few months shy of 27. Its been stressing me out that I'm going to apply for 2019 and that so far I have done less in my life than I wanted to at this point... But I am trying to put that behind me. So here is to not letting age matter.
My vote is take the Feb and apply. If you don't get in reapply early for 2019. Sitting for December while you're only on invalid arguments is really pushing it.