Free scholarship negotiation calculator · 196 law schools · 2025 ABA filings
At the typical law school, only about 15% of students pay full price
Before you sign, put your offer next to what the school gave everyone else. Grant sizes spread wide, too. At the typical school, the middle half of grants spans about $18,000 a year. Enter your school and grant, plus your LSAT and GPA, and see how much of the full price your offer covers, straight from the school's own 2025 ABA filing.
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See how your offer compares with the school's median grant and with up to 8 look-alike schools that have better grant numbers. The email quotes those numbers and asks the school to take another look. Just add your name and send it.
How this works. Your offer is compared against this school’s own tuition, grant share, and grant-amount percentiles from its 2025 ABA 509 filing (Standard 509 Information Report and the ABA’s Grants and Scholarships data). Grant shares cover all students at the school, full-time and part-time. “Among full-time students who got a grant here, the median was $M” describes full-time students who got a grant, not a prediction of what you would get. Some schools don’t file a tuition figure the ABA collects; when that happens the share tile says so instead of guessing. LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admission Council, which does not endorse this tool. Source: ABA Standard 509 Information Reports and Grants and Scholarships filing, 2025, compiled by LSAT Unplugged.
Where the biggest share of students got half tuition or more
The 25 ABA schools with the highest share of students at half tuition or more, 2025 filing. Shares cover all students at each school, full-time and part-time. This is the record, not your personal offer, so it's free.
| School | Half tuition or more |
|---|---|
| Michigan State | 85.5% |
| Dayton | 85.4% |
| WashU | 79.1% |
| Penn State Dickinson | 78.4% |
| Arizona | 76.6% |
| Case Western | 76.4% |
| Ohio State | 73.7% |
| Texas A&M | 72.8% |
| IU Maurer- Bloomington | 69.5% |
| Wayne State | 68.6% |
| Cincinnati | 68.4% |
| Nebraska | 67.6% |
| Gonzaga | 66.3% |
| Alabama | 66.1% |
| Temple | 66.0% |
| Kent | 65.5% |
| Washington and Lee | 63.8% |
| Utah | 63.8% |
| Pittsburgh | 61.1% |
| Villanova | 60.9% |
| DePaul | 60.8% |
| Lincoln Memorial | 60.5% |
| Drake | 60.2% |
| Illinois Champaign | 60.0% |
| Iowa | 59.4% |
Where the most students paid full price
The 25 ABA schools with the highest share of students who got no grant at all, 2025 filing. Shares cover all students at each school, full-time and part-time.
| School | No grant |
|---|---|
| Inter American | 92.1% |
| CUNY | 83.3% |
| Southern | 79.6% |
| Pontifical Catholic | 76.3% |
| Harvard | 62.1% |
| Florida A&M | 55.4% |
| Idaho | 54.0% |
| Howard | 51.6% |
| Georgia State | 51.3% |
| Puerto Rico | 49.7% |
| Stanford | 49.6% |
| Texas Southern | 48.7% |
| Buffalo | 48.5% |
| North Dakota | 47.6% |
| Columbia | 46.2% |
| Wilmington | 45.7% |
| North Texas | 45.5% |
| South Dakota | 45.1% |
| Florida International | 44.9% |
| Cooley | 43.1% |
| Detroit Mercy | 42.0% |
| Northern Kentucky | 41.7% |
| Chapman | 41.3% |
| Penn Carey | 40.7% |
| American | 40.6% |
How law school scholarships actually work
The ABA 509 report lists every school's grants by size (none, under half tuition, half or more, full, more than full) right next to its LSAT and GPA medians. That's not an accident. Schools spend grant money to hold or raise those medians, and the applicant above the median gets offered more than the one below it, whatever either of them earns. I've been coaching the LSAT since 2005, and I haven't seen that pattern change. (Source: ABA Standard 509 Information Reports.)
Many grants are conditional: hold a stated GPA or the money shrinks or disappears. The 509 report files this too, as "Conditional Scholarships": how many students entered with one, and how many had it reduced or eliminated by the end of the year. Look that line up for your school before you sign anything. (Source: ABA Standard 509 Information Reports.)
Every number on this page comes from each school's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report, filed by the school and published by the ABA. Grant shares cover all students at the school, full-time and part-time. Grant amounts cover full-time students who got a grant. Verify any figure against the school's own current 509 report before you act on it.
