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&lt;p&gt;The George Washington University Law School dropped eight spots--from 20th to 28th--in this year&#39;s &lt;i&gt;U.S. News &amp; World Report&lt;/i&gt; law school ranking.  In response, they did what any other top law school would do:  They figured out why the drop occurred and they corrected for it.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Senior Associate Dean Greg Maggs told the &lt;i&gt;GW Hatchet&lt;/i&gt; that the fall happened because &quot;&lt;i&gt;U.S. News&lt;/i&gt;, for the first time, without giving us any notice, said they wanted to count full-time and part-time students mixed together...both our GPA and our LSAT [scores] fell substantially from previous years.&quot;  The law school found a disparity between their part-time and full-time students&#39; average scores, and decided to accept fewer students in the evening program to bring up the part-time scores.  Dean Maggs notes that this reduction in the part-time student body will also improve the school&#39;s student-to-faculty ratio--another important piece of the rankings puzzle.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While this isn&#39;t Clemson University-level gaming of the ranking, GW Law School is still making a significant change in its program because of the publication.  Says &lt;i&gt;The Wall Street Journal&lt;/i&gt;, &quot;You can rail against it, poke holes in its methodologies, but the one thing you can&#39;t do is ignore the &lt;i&gt;U.S. News&lt;/i&gt; rankings.&quot;  &lt;/p&gt;

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