Plunge in magazine\'s annual ranking upsets students; dean blames an error in reporting statistics. Leaders at Wayne State University's Law School are holding a town hall meeting this morning to discuss the recent U.S. News & World Report rankings that moved Wayne State from a Tier 3 law school down to Tier 4, according to the 2008 graduate school rankings released Friday. The drop has been the talk of students, many of whom believe WSU already had been undervalued by the magazine. Maggie Smith, 26, a second-year student and vice president of the student board of governors, says her fellow students feel Wayne State's Law School is the type of institution that\'s not Tier 3 but should actually be in the top. The statistic that affected the law school's ranking was its percentage of 2005 graduates who had found jobs nine months after graduation -- 60 percent -- which was the lowest among all Tier 4 schools. \"There was a significant error in reporting our employment statistics in 2005, and it had a devastating effect,\" said Dean Frank Wu. The ranking was \"unwarranted because of erroneous data, and we will be presenting that all at the town hall meeting.\" Robert Morse, director of data research at U.S. News, said it\'s possible the employment figures were incorrect. Even so, the law school won\'t get back into the third tier this year, he said. \"Our policy is not to change the ranking\" if the school erred, Morse said.