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.