Law School Chances Calculator
Enter your LSAT score and GPA to see your admission category — Safety, Target, Reach, or Far Reach — at the top 20 law schools in the US. Shareable link. Based on official admissions data.
Your Law School Summary
LSAT 160 · GPA 3.50 · 20 schools analyzed
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Average admission probability across these schools: 3%. Individual probabilities below account for your percentile vs each school's admitted class and acceptance rate.
Top 20 Law Schools
Ranked by selectivity. Categories update as you change your stats.
| # | School | LSAT (25/med/75) | Category |
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| 1 | Yale Law School New Haven, CT | 171 / 174 / 177 | Far Reach |
| 2 | Stanford Law School Stanford, CA | 171 / 173 / 176 | Far Reach |
| 3 | Harvard Law School Cambridge, MA | 171 / 174 / 176 | Far Reach |
| 4 | Columbia Law School New York, NY | 169 / 173 / 175 | Far Reach |
| 5 | University of Chicago Law School Chicago, IL | 171 / 174 / 176 | Far Reach |
| 6 | NYU School of Law New York, NY | 169 / 172 / 174 | Far Reach |
| 7 | Penn Carey Law School Philadelphia, PA | 167 / 173 / 174 | Far Reach |
| 8 | UVA School of Law Charlottesville, VA | 168 / 173 / 175 | Far Reach |
| 9 | Berkeley Law Berkeley, CA | 167 / 170 / 172 | Far Reach |
| 10 | Duke Law School Durham, NC | 169 / 171 / 172 | Far Reach |
| 11 | Northwestern Pritzker School of Law Chicago, IL | 167 / 173 / 175 | Far Reach |
| 12 | Michigan Law School Ann Arbor, MI | 168 / 171 / 173 | Far Reach |
| 13 | Cornell Law School Ithaca, NY | 168 / 173 / 175 | Far Reach |
| 14 | Georgetown Law Washington, DC | 166 / 171 / 173 | Far Reach |
| 15 | UCLA School of Law Los Angeles, CA | 166 / 171 / 172 | Far Reach |
| 16 | Texas Law Austin, TX | 166 / 172 / 173 | Far Reach |
| 17 | Vanderbilt Law School Nashville, TN | 167 / 170 / 171 | Far Reach |
| 18 | WashU Law St. Louis, MO | 165 / 175 / 176 | Far Reach |
| 19 | USC Gould School of Law Los Angeles, CA | 165 / 169 / 170 | Far Reach |
| 20 | BU School of Law Boston, MA | 164 / 170 / 171 | Far Reach |
Data from official law school disclosures. Match categories are estimates based on percentile vs admitted-student medians and acceptance rate — they are not a guarantee of admission.
How the law chances calculator works
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Enter your LSAT score
Type your LSAT score (range 120–180) into the calculator. Estimates are allowed — you can also enter a target score you're working towards.
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Enter your GPA
Enter your undergraduate GPA (range 2.0–4.3). Use cumulative GPA on the 4.0 scale. Your match categories update immediately.
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Review your match categories at the top schools
For each of the top 20 law schools, the calculator shows whether you are a Safety, Target, Reach, or Far Reach. Safety = your stats exceed 75% of admitted students; Target = at or above the median; Reach = below median but within the admitted range; Far Reach = below the 25th percentile.
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Instant match categories
Percentile-based scoring vs each school's 25th/50th/75th LSAT and GPA.
Calibrated probabilities
Logistic model using acceptance rate — so 'Safety' at Yale Law differs from an open-admission school.
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How categories are calculated
- Safety (75-100): your stats exceed 75% of admitted students.
- Target (50-74): at or above the median admit.
- Reach (25-49): below median but within the admitted range.
- Far Reach (0-24): below the 25th percentile of admitted students.
Law school uses a 60/40 LSAT/GPA weighting, the same weighting favored by most admissions committees.