Law school chances, and what each school will cost you

It places your LSAT and GPA against each school's 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles from its 2025 ABA 509 report, weights the LSAT more than the GPA, and scales by the school's acceptance rate. The result is a chance band (Likely, Target, Reach, Long shot), not a percentage, because percentile data can tell you where you stand in a class, not exactly how an admissions office will vote.

The median LSAT across all 196 ABA law schools for the 2025 entering class is 159, and the median GPA is 3.67. The top 14 schools sit at 170 to 175. A score at or above a school's median makes you a Target or Likely there; 3 to 5 points above its 75th percentile is where merit scholarships get large.

No calculator is a decision. Tools built on applicant-reported outcomes and tools built on schools' published percentiles (like this one) both miss essays, work history, timing in the cycle, and the year's applicant pool. Use the bands to build a balanced list and to see what a higher LSAT changes. Verify any number against the school's own 509 report.

Likely means applicants with your numbers usually get in (roughly 70% or better). Target is a coin flip to a good bet (40 to 70%). Reach is possible but unlikely (15 to 40%). Long shot is under 15%. A balanced list has schools in at least 3 of the 4 bands.

It depends on where your numbers sit in the school's class. The 2025 509 reports show what share of each entering class got any grant and what share got half tuition or more. At the typical school about 15% of students pay full price. Merit money follows the medians, so students below them are the likeliest to be in that group. This calculator shows the band you'd likely land in and what 3 years of tuition should cost after that award.

At most schools, yes. The LSAT is standardized and the GPA isn't, so admissions offices weight the LSAT more, and the LSAT is the only one of the two you can still change. That's why this page shows every result twice: at your current score and at 5 points higher.

Yes. Among the 190 schools that filed both years, the median LSAT went from 157 in 2011 to 159 in 2025, and 27 schools moved their median up 5 points or more. Tuition and grant shares moved with it: full price went from $38,075 to $53,434 at the 157 schools that filed both years, and the share of the class getting any grant went from 48% to 85%.

The ABA didn't start collecting acceptance rates until 2017, and the chance band needs one. Medians, tuition, and aid are filed every year going back to 2011, so those numbers still show for older entering classes. Only the chance band is missing before 2017.

A splitter is an applicant whose LSAT clears a school's median while the GPA doesn't. A reverse splitter is the mirror: the GPA clears the median and the LSAT doesn't. A reverse splitter can still move the LSAT. A splitter can't move the GPA, so the LSAT already did its job and the rest of the file has to carry it.

That school's LSAT median has moved more than most since 2011, year to year and in both directions. Across all 196 schools, 55 moved their median 2 or more points between the Fall 2024 and Fall 2025 classes, and the class you'll join hasn't filed its numbers yet. Read a flagged school's median as a range, not a line.

Tap the arrow next to a school to see 3 things nobody else puts on one row: its median LSAT every year since 2011 with your score drawn across it, what full price and the share of the class paying it did over the same period, and what the class that entered 3 years before the latest employment filing got: employment, Big Law, government and public interest, and federal clerkships. All class-level, all from the school's own ABA 509 and employment reports.