U.S. News and World Report released its annual law school rankings this week. Yale, Harvard and Stanford top the list.

ASU came in 26th, tied with Boston University, and U of A ranked 42nd, tied with George Mason University, the University of Utah and Washington and Lee University.

To find out what the rankings really mean within a law school, we turn to Doug Sylvester, Dean of the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at ASU.