<p>^ There are some things terribly wrong in the above post.</p>
<p>Yale Law School probably cares less about GPA than anybody. What they care about there is your Rhodes or Marshall, the grades you got at Oxford, and what your dissertation looks like. It does take some people straight out of college, but there it is looking for blinding, undeniable brilliance. My guess is that Yale takes about as many 3.6s as it takes 4.0s: not many.</p>
<p>None of the top law schools, none, gives even half a crap about U.S. News. Really. It wouldn’t even occur to the people who make the decisions there to care. They care about what the following think: famous Federal judges, especially Supreme Court Justices; appointments committees at other law schools; the Department of Justice (although less so than in the past); the hiring committees at large law firms in New York, Washington, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and wherever they happen to be. The New York Times. Maybe The American Lawyer.</p>