<p>According to World News it is the highest ranked law school in its region and 19th nationally. I would consider that fairly elite. Especially considering that it is ranked higher than GW and that is normally considered an elite law school. I was also talking to a prof about rankings and he said depending on how you do the formula your school can move up or down about 5 spots so if they used the formula differently Wash U could be 14th or it could be 24th. Either way top 20 is good in my book.</p>