While 42 law schools publicly announced plans to boycott the U.S. News & World Report "Best Law Schools" rankings, a total of 63 law schools ended up not submitting data for the survey.

On the embargoed release, due out Thursday, U.S. News provided an asterisk next to schools with a footnote stating: "School declined to report law data to U.S. News during U.S. News's most recent data collection. The school's rankings and rankings data were derived entirely from information the school publicly disclosed as mandated by the American Bar Association, and data collected from reputational surveys."