Free scholarship calculator · 196 ABA schools · Fall 2025 entering class
Law school scholarship calculator: what your LSAT score is worth
Enter your LSAT and GPA, pick up to 6 schools (or leave it blank for an auto 6), and see where your numbers sit in each class, the grant quartile that lines up with that spot, and the share of the class that paid full price.
Start at a school's median LSAT and GPA, then add 5 points. At the median school, that moves the applicant into the top quarter of the class, and the class's grant at the new spot runs $8,041 a year higher. That's the median across the 148 schools where 5 points changed the spot. 20.4% of 2025 1Ls got no grant at all.
Schools don't publish who got what. This assumes grants follow the numbers, which is how every school's merit matrix works. Read it as the class's range at your position, not an offer.
Sample numbers: 165 LSAT, 3.70 GPA. Put your own in the form.
Your schools
| School | Your position | Grant quartile here | Paid full price | +3 | +5 |
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One more time: this maps your position to the class's own filed grant range. It's not an offer.
What is 1 LSAT point worth at your schools?
Grant money per LSAT point across the middle half of each class, among students who got a grant.
How it's figured: the class's 75th percentile grant minus its 25th, divided by its 75th percentile LSAT minus its 25th. 2025 ABA 509 data. A class-level figure, not an offer. See it for all 196 schools.
How the estimate works. Your LSAT and GPA are placed against each school’s 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles from its 2025 ABA 509 filing. Grant dollars are the class’s own filed 25th, median, and 75th grant among recipients at that same position, never a personal prediction. LSAT is a registered trademark of the Law School Admission Council, which does not endorse this tool. Source: ABA Standard 509 Information Reports, 2025 entering class, compiled by LSAT Unplugged.
All 196 schools, sorted to your position
Best grant quartile at your position first. Same rule as above: a dollar next to a class-level label, never an offer.
| School | Your position | Grant quartile here | +3 | +5 |
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How law school scholarships actually work
Most schools run merit scholarships off a matrix, and the matrix reads the same two numbers this page uses: your LSAT and your GPA. The LSAT usually carries more weight, because it's the standardized number, the one every applicant sat under the same conditions, where GPAs come from schools that grade differently.
Every ABA-approved school files a Standard 509 Information Report each year, and that filing is where the grant numbers on this page come from: the 25th, median, and 75th percentile grant among students who got one, plus the share who paid full price. Schools don't publish who got what dollar amount. This page assumes grants follow the numbers, because that's how a merit matrix works, and reads the result as the class's range at your position, not an offer.
Read the fine print on any real offer that names a GPA to keep the money. ABA Standard 509 disclosures require schools to report how many students on conditional scholarships had them reduced or taken away. A scholarship with a GPA floor attached is worth less than the sticker price until you've confirmed the floor and what happens if you miss it.
Negotiating one offer against another is the next move once you have real numbers in hand. Schools compete for students who raise their medians. The LSAT decides who clears that bar in the first place.
I’ve been coaching the LSAT since 2005. The score is the one number here you can still move before you apply.
Highest median grant among recipients, 2025 entering class
25th / median / 75th percentile grant among students who got one, the share who paid full price, and full-price tuition. Source: each school’s ABA 509 report.
| School | Grant (25th / median / 75th) | Paid full price | Full tuition |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. John's | $25,000 / $60,000 / $72,630 | 15.9% | $75,170 |
| Chapman | $35,000 / $59,500 / $64,500 | 41.3% | $63,126 |
| Stanford | $34,240 / $52,797 / $72,247 | 49.6% | $77,454 |
| WashU | $40,000 / $48,000 / $60,000 | 5.5% | $72,792 |
| Miami | $39,374 / $47,000 / $52,188 | 35.0% | $66,720 |
| Loyola Marymount | $35,000 / $45,000 / $52,000 | 38.3% | $70,360 |
| Michigan State | $35,000 / $42,682 / $47,424 | 0.0% | $48,222 |
| Case Western | $31,000 / $42,500 / $48,500 | 2.4% | $64,600 |
| Penn Carey | $29,512 / $42,246 / $60,000 | 40.7% | $78,348 |
| Belmont | $27,140 / $40,710 / $54,280 | 38.1% | $55,500 |
| USC | $38,220 / $40,092 / $48,160 | 4.9% | $84,034 |
| Northwestern | $20,000 / $40,000 / $50,000 | 23.6% | $79,722 |
| Wake Forest | $30,000 / $40,000 / $55,162 | 24.2% | $57,920 |
| Cardozo | $30,000 / $40,000 / $50,000 | 1.7% | $74,438 |
| Richmond | $20,000 / $40,000 / $55,550 | 18.6% | $57,700 |
| Villanova | $25,000 / $40,000 / $50,000 | 13.3% | $59,800 |
| American | $40,000 / $40,000 / $40,000 | 40.6% | $66,990 |
| Seton Hall | $20,500 / $40,000 / $60,000 | 11.6% | $69,660 |
| Santa Clara | $30,000 / $40,000 / $57,262 | 38.6% | not filed |
| NYLS | $21,300 / $40,000 / $55,000 | 14.9% | $71,052 |
| New England | $19,500 / $40,000 / $59,900 | 13.9% | $62,896 |
| Albany | $20,000 / $38,000 / $46,000 | 6.0% | $63,994 |
| Tulane | $30,000 / $37,500 / $45,000 | 13.4% | $69,578 |
| CA Western | $18,720 / $37,440 / $53,040 | 39.7% | $64,720 |
| Emory | $28,000 / $36,000 / $45,000 | 1.8% | $69,510 |
Highest share paying full price, 2025 entering class
The class share with no grant at all, median grant among recipients elsewhere in the class, and full-price tuition. Source: each school’s ABA 509 report.
| School | Paid full price | Median grant (recipients) | Full tuition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Inter American | 92.1% | $2,379 | $16,585 |
| CUNY | 83.3% | $8,000 | $25,640 |
| Southern | 79.6% | $11,000 | $11,338 |
| Pontifical Catholic | 76.3% | $1,593 | not filed |
| Harvard | 62.1% | $27,510 | $77,100 |
| Florida A&M | 55.4% | $7,500 | not filed |
| Idaho | 54.0% | $8,000 | $46,752 |
| Howard | 51.6% | $23,657 | $39,780 |
| Georgia State | 51.3% | $7,776 | $37,886 |
| Puerto Rico | 49.7% | $1,000 | not filed |
| Stanford | 49.6% | $52,797 | $77,454 |
| Texas Southern | 48.7% | $7,363 | $26,331 |
| Buffalo | 48.5% | $7,500 | $32,100 |
| North Dakota | 47.6% | $3,875 | not filed |
| Columbia | 46.2% | $32,000 | $85,368 |
| Wilmington | 45.7% | $6,000 | not filed |
| North Texas | 45.5% | $5,000 | not filed |
| South Dakota | 45.1% | $5,000 | $32,184 |
| Florida International | 44.9% | $10,365 | not filed |
| Cooley | 43.1% | $13,746 | not filed |
| Detroit Mercy | 42.0% | $18,636 | not filed |
| Northern Kentucky | 41.7% | $18,000 | $38,454 |
| Chapman | 41.3% | $59,500 | $63,126 |
| Penn Carey | 40.7% | $42,246 | $78,348 |
| American | 40.6% | $40,000 | $66,990 |
Questions people ask before they run the numbers
How does this law school scholarship calculator work?
It places your LSAT and GPA against each school's 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles from its 2025 ABA 509 report to find your position in that class, then reads off the class's own filed grant quartile (25th, median, or 75th percentile grant among recipients) at that position, plus the share of the class that paid full price. It never predicts a dollar amount for you personally.
Do law schools publish who gets what scholarship?
No. A school's ABA Standard 509 Information Report discloses the class's grant range among recipients (25th, median, 75th percentile) and what share paid full price, but not which student got which amount. This page assumes grants follow the numbers, which is how merit matrices work, and reads the result as the class's range at your position, not an offer. Source: ABA Standard 509 Information Reports.
Does the LSAT or GPA matter more for law school scholarships?
The LSAT usually carries more weight in a school's merit formula because it's standardized: every applicant sits the same test under the same conditions, where GPAs come from schools that grade differently. It's also the number you can still move before you apply.
What is a conditional scholarship?
A scholarship with a GPA floor attached: keep a set class rank or GPA after 1L, or lose part or all of the award. ABA Standard 509 disclosures require schools to report how many students on conditional scholarships had them reduced or eliminated. Read that number on the school's own 509 report before counting on the sticker offer.
Is this calculator accurate?
It's arithmetic on public ABA 509 filings and the numbers you type in, not a personal offer. It tells you where your numbers sit in a class and what that class's own filed grant range looks like at that position. The actual award depends on the year's applicant pool, your full file, and the school's own matrix, none of which are in a 509 filing.
What does +3 or +5 points do to my scholarship money?
It moves your position in the class, and merit money follows position. On many schools that move crosses a grant quartile: this page shows the dollar gap between your current quartile and the next one, both as a yearly figure and across 3 years. At some schools the whole grant range is a single figure, so a quartile move there doesn't change the number, and this page says so plainly instead of printing a fake gap.