The ranking factors are here: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/law-schools-methodology https://www.usnews.com/education/best-grad

The ranking factors are here: https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/articles/law-schools-methodology https://www.usnews.com/education/best-graduate-schools/artic... LSAT and gpa are the only student specific ranking factors. And bar passage/placement, but those correlate with grades which correlate with LSAT/gpa. It’s really what the schools care about: the rankings matter. LSAT/gpa are what affect their rankings, so they’re the governing interest. Legacy is on their forms, but my point is it is not a large factor at the law school level. All the top admissions consultants are part of that admissions forum. If your only source of knowledge is reading what schools say then you don’t really have experience in how what they do differs.