u/broccolicheddar31

Anyone serious about applying to an ABA accredited school with strong outcomes after graduation should take the LSAT. This is especially true for those with uGPAs that are below the median for their target schools and those who are relying on receiving scholarship money to fund their education.

This is common knowledge for most already navigating the application process, but there was a post in here earlier this week sharing misleading information based on the poster’s interpretation of info found on the JDNext website.

Your uGPA and LSAT score are the two main metrics schools look at when evaluating applicants. That hasn’t changed, despite what an infographic on the website of a company looking to sell their services/product might lead some to believe.

Anyone with a finite amount of time and resources (most, if not all of us fall into at least one of those two categories) shouldn’t waste their time and money taking an alternative exam that is only accepted by approximately 1/3 of ABA accredited schools without first taking the LSAT and getting the best score possible.

The LSAT isn’t a perfect test, and the LSAC is certainly far from perfect as an organization. But, that’s the nature of the beast.

BLUF - Does it make sense to retake the LSAT if your score falls in the 75th percentile for all of the schools that you plan on applying to?

Like many in this sub, I am planning to attend law school part-time because my family relies on my income from my current job. Long story short, I don’t have aspirations of attending a T14 school or going into Big Law.

I got my score for the June LSAT exam this morning. This was my first time taking the test, and I had already preemptively scheduled my second attempt for August. I was pleasantly surprised to see that my score falls at or above the 75th percentile for all of the schools that I plan on applying to.

Is there any reason to retake the test once your LSAT score is above the 75th percentile? (i.e., Do your chances of getting a scholarship increase significantly from a 168 to a 170 when the school’s median LSAT score is a 158?)

As much as I’d love to move on from the LSAT and start working on applications, I don’t want to miss out on (potentially) significant scholarship money.