Wednesday's announcements that Yale Law School and Harvard Law School will no longer be participating in the U.S. News & World Report education rankings have other top law schools considering similar moves.

Wednesday morning, Yale Law Dean Heather K. Gerken announced that the law school would no longer be participating in the "profoundly flawed" rankings. Hours later, Harvard Law Dean John F. Manning announced that the school would follow suit, saying, "We at HLS have made this decision because it has become impossible to reconcile our principles and commitments with the methodology and incentives the U.S. News rankings reflect."

In an interview with Law.com on Wednesday, Gerken explained that her decision has been a long time coming. There have been repeated calls from law school deans across the country to follow sound methodology, but U.S. News failed to follow those recommendations. She weighed the decision with colleagues, but also considered what would be best for the school and for the legal profession.