Yale and Harvard Law Schools are dropping out of the USNWR ratings because they're almost certainly about to drop out of the top ratings slots. Neither school deserves to be there any longer, and withdrawing from objective criteria allows such schools to go back to the days of quotas and apply prejudicial standards without clear indicators that would make it obvious what they're doing.
Yale and Harvard Law Schools are dropping out of the USNWR ratings because they're almost certainly about to drop out of the top ratings slots. Neither school deserves to be there any longer, and withdrawing from objective criteria allows such schools to go back to the days of quotas and apply prejudicial standards without clear indicators that would make it obvious what they're doing.