As soon as U.S. News & World Report revealed its 2023 Best Graduate Schools rankings last Tuesday, prospective law students, alumni and faculty began scrambling to check the results.

But Aaron Taylor, executive director for AccessLex Center for Legal Education Excellence, has a word of warning for law school applicants: "It's really impossible to come up with a one-size-fits-all rankings list."

The decision to attend law school is a multifaceted one, Taylor told Law.com on Friday, and the factors that are important vary from person to person.