What Is a Good LSAT Score?

Whether a score is good depends on two comparisons: where it sits in the LSAT Score Range against everyone who tests, and how it compares with the medians of the law schools you want to attend. If you have a practice raw score, turn it into a scaled score with the LSAT Score Converter, then find it in the table below.

The table pairs five common target scores with both comparisons. Percentiles come from LSAC's 2023–2026 table, which counts the share of scores lower than yours. Raw scores are from LSAC's official conversion for the April 2025 LSAT, which had 77 scored questions.

"Typical school median" means the middle value of all 196 ABA law school medians for the fall 2025 class. Half the schools reported a median of 159 or lower. Only 48 schools had a median of 165 or higher, and only 22 had a median of 170 or higher.

These are the 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile LSAT scores each school reported for its fall 2025 entering class in its ABA Standard 509 report. Roughly a quarter of each class scored lower than the 25th percentile figure, and roughly a quarter scored higher than the 75th.

T14 medians ran from 170 (Berkeley) to 174 (Yale, Harvard, Chicago). A 170 beats 94.5% of scores, so every T14 median sits in roughly the top 6% of test takers. The highest median at any ABA school was 175, at Washington University in St. Louis, which is not a T14 school.

Every ABA law school publishes the LSAT scores of its entering class at the 25th, 50th and 75th percentiles in its Standard 509 report. The median is the middle of that class: half of the students who enrolled scored at or above it. The figures on this page come from each report's "All" column, which combines full-time and part-time students.

If your score is at or above a school's median, it would have placed you in the upper half of the class that school enrolled last year. A score between the 25th and 75th percentiles falls in the middle half of that class.

A score below the 25th percentile is not a rejection. It means roughly a quarter of the enrolled class scored lower than that figure, so fewer of the students who enrolled had scores like yours.

A median is a reference point, not a cutoff. LSAC reports every score to law schools with a score band, because, in LSAC's words, "the estimate of proficiency provided by a given LSAT score is not perfect."

Your percentile rank is the share of LSAT scores from the 2023–2026 testing years that were lower than yours. It is a useful second view of "good", because it shows where you stand against all test takers rather than one school's class.

• Top half: a 154 beats 50.4% of scores.
• Top quarter: starts at 162, which beats 77.2%.
• Top 10%: starts at 168, which beats 91.4%.

Percentiles move fastest in the middle of the scale, where scores are most concentrated. In LSAC's table, 17.4% of scores fell from 150 to 154, against 4.2% from 170 to 174. Going from 150 to 155 lifts the share below you from 36.6% to 54.0%, while going from 170 to 175 lifts it from 94.5% to 98.7%.

For the percentile of every score from 120 to 180, see LSAT Percentiles.

• High (170 and up): beats 94.5% or more of scores. 170 to 174 is the T14 median range, and 175 or higher is at or above every ABA school median. Only 22 of 196 ABA schools had a median of 170 or higher.
• Competitive (160 to 169): beats 71.1% to 93.0% of scores and sits above the typical school median of 159.
• Around average (150 to 159): close to the 2024–2025 average of 152.66. A 159 is right at the typical school median.
• Low (below 150): beats fewer than 36.6% of scores. Some schools admit students in this range, but the choice is narrower.

The same bands look different against law school medians. Of the 196 ABA schools, 105 reported a median below 160, so a competitive score is above the median at more than half of them.

1. List the schools you would realistically attend, including one or two reach schools.
2. Look up each school's 25th percentile, median and 75th percentile LSAT in its ABA 509 report.
3. Set your target at or above the median of the schools you care about most. A score near a school's 75th percentile would have placed you in the top quarter of its last class.
4. Score full practice tests and convert each raw score, so you can see how far you are from that target in scaled points. If you scored each section separately, the LSAT Score Calculator adds them up for you.

A few points can move you across a whole tier. On the April 2025 LSAT, going from 160 to 165 took 7 more correct answers, and it moved the share of scores below you from 71.1% to 85.2%.

Practice scores from different tests line up because of equating. LSAC uses it so that a given score, such as a 160, represents the same proficiency on any version of the test. The raw score needed for that 160 can differ slightly from form to form, so treat the raw counts on this page as one form's example.

If you retake, schools see more than one result. When you apply, law schools receive up to your 12 most recent LSAT results, including absences and cancellations.

No. The LSAT has no pass or fail result. LSAC reports a scaled score from 120 to 180, a score band and a percentile rank, and each law school decides what it will accept.

The closest thing to a floor is the lowest median at an ABA law school, which was 139 for fall 2025. A 139 beats 9.4% of scores.

A 160 beats 71.1% of scores, which puts it in the top 29%. On the April 2025 LSAT it took 56–57 correct answers out of 77, about 73% of the test, and it is above the median at 105 of 196 ABA schools. For the full breakdown, see Is 160 a Good LSAT Score?.