Law is, for many students aspiring to become lawyers, an intriguing thing to study. If you don't have a passion for the law and how to use it to win in court, help people, or bring justice to your own ideals, then going to law school may not be for you. Law school is more than just a place to practice law, it's a place where you learn all about the current laws on the books as well as all the cases before, that were won, that have changed the law or created new laws. Many laws are formed due to winning cases in the judicial system and when your fighting a case in court you need to know which cases inspired the new laws or laws you want to show gives your client their rights.

What law school you go to will determine both your success and comfort in studying to pass the bar. All law schools perform pretty much the same function of helping you pass this exam, however, they don't all function the same way or with the same rules. Some schools have a prestigious background and have trained some of the best lawyers in the world, while others do a good job but simply haven't earned any notoriety for whatever reason. The politics of law school rankings is that the schools that are ranked higher than others may not be any better or worse than the ones that ranked lower, but they are ranked due to many things that may actually give you a better chance at success.

The law school rankings system is designed to "grade" several areas of law school internal curriculum such as how well their classes are set up, difficulty level, teaching staff, and more. These rankings are often relative to the person or persons doing the actual grading and shouldn't be taken as "law" when it comes to picking a school. This should simply be a way to see which schools have decent programs that may help you. You may find a school that ranks lower to be more comfortable and having an easier curriculum than one that ranks higher. In the end it is a matter of personal choice, comfort, and what you're looking for. Many ranking systems take this into account and don't rigidly rank the schools so much as the internal workings so the particular parts of the program mean more than the overall school, which cannot be ranked fairly anyway against other schools as each school has its strengths and weaknesses, but each have their unique characteristics.

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