Law School Chances Calculator
Enter your LSAT score and GPA to see your admission category — Safety, Target, Reach, or Far Reach — at all 198 US law schools with published admissions data, best fits first. Shareable link. Based on official admissions data. Your category breakdown and strongest matches show instantly; the full ranked list comes with a free account.
Your Law School Summary
You're a Target or better at 101 of 198 schools.
LSAT 160 · GPA 3.50 · 198 schools analyzed
48
Safety · 24%
53
Target · 27%
38
Reach · 19%
59
Far Reach · 30%
Average admission probability across these schools: 38%. Individual probabilities below account for your percentile vs each school's admitted class and acceptance rate.
Your Best-Fit Law Schools
Your 5 strongest fits of 198 US schools with published data. Updates as you change your stats.
| # | School | LSAT (25/med/75) | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| 132 | Thomas Jefferson Law San Diego, CA | 144 / 148 / 151 | Safety |
| 164 | WMU Cooley Law Lansing, MI | 145 / 147 / 151 | Safety |
| 179 | La Verne Law Ontario, CA | 148 / 152 / 155 | Safety |
| 142 | Barry Law Orlando, FL | 148 / 150 / 152 | Safety |
| 190 | Southern Law Center Baton Rouge, LA | 145 / 147 / 150 | Safety |
193 more law schools scored for LSAT 160 · GPA 3.50
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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.
The law school admissions landscape
What the numbers look like across the 198 US law schools with published admissions data — and where your stats need to land to be competitive.
159
Median admitted LSAT
139–175 across schools
3.67
Median admitted GPA
3.09–4.00 across schools
164+
Competitive LSAT
Top half of programs
3.81+
Competitive GPA
Top half of programs
Across these 198 law schools, the typical admitted student sits near a LSAT of 159 and a GPA of 3.67. To be competitive at the more selective half, aim for a LSAT of 164+ with a GPA around 3.81+.
Selectivity varies widely: 35 law schools admit fewer than 1 in 5 applicants, while 15 admit more than 60%. The most selective is Yale University (4%); the most accessible is Thomas Jefferson School of Law (73%).
That spread is why a single “LSAT score I need” number is misleading — the same stats can be a Safety at one school and a Far Reach at another. Enter yours above to see the split across every school.
How many schools open up as your LSAT rises
Holding GPA at the cohort median (3.67), the number of law schools where you'd be a Target or better.
| LSAT | Target or better | of which Safety |
|---|---|---|
| 151 | 33 / 198 | 7 |
| 156 | 79 / 198 | 29 |
| 161 | 118 / 198 | 73 |
| 165 | 144 / 198 | 114 |
| 170 | 175 / 198 | 122 |
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 every school
The calculator scores all 198 US law schools with published admissions data and shows whether you are a Safety, Target, Reach, or Far Reach — best fits first. Safety = your stats exceed 75% of admitted students and the modelled admission chance is 60% or better; Target = at or above the median; Reach = below median but within the admitted range; Far Reach = below the 25th percentile. At highly selective schools strong stats alone do not make a Safety, so those appear as Targets. Your full category breakdown and strongest matches appear immediately; the complete ranked list opens with a free account.
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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.
Shareable results
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How categories are calculated
- Safety (75-100): your stats exceed 75% of admitted students and the modelled admission chance is 60% or better.
- 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.
Beating the admitted median is not the same as being likely to get in. Where a school admits only a small share of everyone who applies, strong stats still leave you short of a coin flip, so those schools are shown as Targets rather than Safeties — in some programmes that means no Safety exists at any score.
Law school uses a 60/40 LSAT/GPA weighting, the same weighting favored by most admissions committees.