Intense status competition leads to some artificial and wasteful practice [WSJ Law Blog, NLJ]:

• Administrators are spending significant amount of money on brochures and marketing materials that they send to other law schools and judges to gin up better results on the reputation survey.


• Some schools categorize students as part-time or probationary so their LSAT scores would not count, although U.S. News recently started including part-time students in its analysis.


• Other schools hired graduates on a temporary basis so they would be considered employed for the U.S. News survey.