what is a good score on the LSAT?
A good LSAT score depends on which law school you want to go to. You can call your prospective law schools and request for statistics such as the median LSAT score of the previous year’s students that were admitted. You can also obtain ranges such as, what percentage of students with your score were accepted to which law schools. The www.lsac.org website has a search engine that allows you to search and sort different types of data. The LSAT is scored on a scale from 120 to 180. To give you an idea, the breakdown of what percent of the students score in which range: • 12.5% of test takers score 162 or above • 12.5% of test takers score 142 or below • 75.0% of test takers score between 142 and 162 Below is a list of the top 20 Law Schools with the average LSAT scores and the average GPA for the accepted students in 2005: Law School 2005 LSAT Score 75th Percentile UGPA Yale Law School 175 3.95 Stanford University Law School 172 3.96 Harvard Law School 176 3.
Depends. What schools are you trying to get into? What is your GPA? Do you have any other unusual items in your history that might make you more appealing to a law school admissions committee? And last, what are you hoping to do with your law degree? Most law schools look primarily at GPA and LSAT score. As you (hopefully) already know, the LSAT is scored on a scale from 120-180. The percentile breakdowns vary from year to year, but you can look at past percentile breakouts of scores here: http://www.powerscore.com/lsat/help/scal… As you can see, a score of about 150 is the 50th %ile (about half of all people who took the test did better, while half did worse). A score of 163 or better would put you in the top 10%. However, you’re probably wondering how well you need to do to get into a specific school. You can look up information on LSAT scores of various law schools here:
