HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: University of Arizona Law School May Cut Tuition To Lure Students. “With a smaller applicant pool, schools find it more challenging to maintain the quality of their student profile — a combination of their acceptance rate, median scores on the Law School Admission Test, median grade-point average and job-placement success. These factors, and others, are used to determine a law school’s ranking on surveys such as that by U.S. News & World Report.”