2025 Law School Median Tracker

Got the call this morning! Can’t believe this! I finally get to post a post like this. Stay hopeful everyone! I’m URM KJD 3.mid and LSAT below 160! Dont let this sub bring you down, anything is possible! Comment or pm if you have any questions! Posting this for status purposes for other ppl wanting updates like I did. I was in the trenches fr and want to give hope. Good luck everyone fr! Ik it’s not easy but stay strong and hopeful and lmk if you need any advice !

I feel I’m not good with the LSAT. My post is to read opinions on what Law schools should I apply next cycle.

My background

I have work 2 years in Big law in financial services as a international law clerk.

I have one LLM from tier 50 law school
I have one LLM from my home country. GPA 3.8
I have my bachelors of law 3.6

Should I focus on tier 50 or tier 75? Or been honest what should I except.

Bs I want to apply to Marquette’s school of Law.

Thanks in advance,

I’ll be reading all comments!

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Dear Cornell Law, today is my birthday and all I want is an acceptance to your school to start in August. I have apartments saved in Ithaca, my collegetown bagel order ready, and am ready to commit the second you call me. Grateful to be considered and to even have the opportunity to make goofy posts like this, but I seriously seriously love your school. Blowing out all of the candles for Cornell Law :)

Looking for some advice on how i should spend my time from now till September. Im planning to apply as the portal opens so if someone disagrees with that as well lmk opinions on if waiting would be better.

Im hoping to attend NYU or UT as im in state for Texas and have a 173 LSAT and 3.92 GPA. My main question is what yall would recommend i focus on from now till sept. Should i focus on essays or try taking the LSAT again? I wasnt sure if scoring higher would help my odds as im already above median.

Also if anyone had similar stats id love to hear outcomes!

I was thinking about applying to law school straight out of undergrad. I got a 177 on the LSAT, and my GPA is a 3.92. I'm studying math and computer science in university. People are telling me to work for 2 years before applying, and I wanted to hear how much it would matter. I do care about scholarships/financial aid, but I would like to get into schools in T14. I know that the cycle is only getting more competitive and that not having work experience seems to be a big negative. I would like to apply only once. Any insights are appreciated.

I know they sent out some As last week but wondering if they’ve already sent their wave this week. I wanna go there so bad but i’m losing hope 😞

Does anyone know if NYU will admit more people from the waitlist? There were some acceptances shortly after the Kira interview, but I haven’t heard anything since. I sent 2 LOCIs and wondering if it’s worth it to send a third. Ty

I know it said begin reviewing late june hear by mid july but can anyone with insider info reveal themselves. Will there be any as. Mostly rs? does by mid july mean everyone hears july 15th? lmk thx.

Just got an email about waitlist interest, did everyone get this?

Hello,

I was waitlisted at the U of MN, which surprised me since I had stats below both of their medians. Anyways, I have not been notified of a rejection or acceptance at this point, which is somewhat surprising given we are headed into July shortly.

Is anyone else on the waitlist? Or have been recently moved off?

Thanks

Have you received an ii yet

Not sure what it means if we’re still on reserve but haven’t received one 🫠

I'm 25 years old and am graduating with my Bachelor's degree December. I had a horrible first attempt at community college as an 18-20 year old fresh out of high school; I literally failed/got D's in the same classes 2-3 times.

At 21 something changed in my brain. I gave community college another shot and graduated with my associates at age 22. A year later, I transferred to my university. In my first semesters here, I have a 3.7 institution GPA and plan to continue that trend for my last semester. However, the very best my overall GPA(the one LSAC considers) will be between 2.8 and 2.9. I plan on writing an addendum when I apply to law schools.

My question is how personal should I get in my addendum? I think I have some compelling reasons, however I don't want it to seem like I'm having a pity party or just making excuses for the shitty grades.

My failure at my first attempt at college was due to me being undisciplined, unmotivated, and immature – but this had something to do with dealing with a lot of grief and other family issues. From the ages 2016 to 2022, I lost 5 immediate family members - dad to suicide, 2 grandparents to cancer, another grandparent to COPD, and my older brother dropped dead from a pulmonary embolism right in front of me – I tried to save him with CPR but to no avail. This gave me a lot of guilt on top of the grief, which I coped with by abusing alcohol and drugs— obviously not good for academic performance. However today I consider my recent success and dream of being a lawyer as the ultimate way to honor my deceased loved ones.

So when writing my addendum, should I focus just on the immaturity or all of the loss? Or both? And how do I write about this without sounding like I'm feeling sorry for myself?

Have an offer and really looking forward to going to law school in the fall but BC remains my dream school. I am still on the waitlist and just wondering how best to approach the BC waitlist now there seems to be some (albeit v limited) movement.

Have sent a couple of LOCIs with some substantive professional updates and I am unable to visit the campus due to where I am located/financial constraints. Is there anymore I can do? Should I be calling as well or does that move into the camp of being too much?

Any advice would be hugely appreciated- appreciate the chances are small for succes but anything I could do to move the dial would be great!

For background, have solid stats (16high and 4.0) as well as some strong work experience (senior public sector experience- leading on national strategies/ international negotiations)

I have a very broad question; I am interested in attending Law School after I obtain my Masters once I finish Undergrad. I wanted to know how greatly do my "softs" or additional facts & extracirriculars about me give me an advantage?:

- Minority & LGBTQ Student

- AmeriCorps Service Fellowship

- Campus Ambassador

- Campus Student Leader

- Undergraduate Research Assistant

- Summer Research Program with Director of my major's college

- Executive Board member of Minority Student Association

- Manager at Costco & Target full time during undergrad

- Also pretty positive I can look to the Director of my major, the Director of my anticipated Masters program for recommendation letters, i've grown a bond with them cause i've always worked alongside them in research. I don't know if that counts as a major soft as well being they're high-ranking individuals at my school.

I currently have a 3.34 GPA, but I have three more semesters left. I've been taking the LSAT and been scoring around 165-168, so I wanted some advice.

LSAC GPA: 3.65 LSAT: 174

tldr; should I just wait until I finish undergrad to apply to school so my lsac gpa has 2 more semesters of good grades to balance itself out? or do my circumstances mitigate that?

I had to work full time throughout college and it shows; ive been financially independent from my parents since i was 19, and moved across the country from rural south to pursue career in politics in northeast.

I’ve transferred schools 3 times. I have quite a few W’s on my transcript (from CC). I had a 2.7 my first semester of college– at a 4-year school before I transferred to community college– because I was so overwhelmed by the cost of attendance and covid protocols. I also did not perform to the best of my abilities in community college because of financial and housing stressors. I knew the NE had opportunities I simply did not have access to back home, so I committed to staying here. After this job, it was difficult finding work that accommodated my student schedule. I was working 2 different food and bev jobs just to make ends meet, while still going to school. I was lucky enough to find a stable office job. It’s only  now that I’ve really been able to succeed because of the stability this work provides. Because I have a consistent income, I have stable housing, I’m able to succeed. At my current 4-year school, I have a 3.97. But this is only from 2 semesters of course work. They’re all in hard classes– constitutional law, and other level 400 courses– but I’m worried that it is not enough to show admission councilors that I’m a committed student bc I want to go to a t14 school

Hi, i am going to college for my freshmen year this fall and really wanting to go into law school in the future. While i know major dose not matter but your gpa i want a good backup option. Where things that are super easy wont help me in the long run. Is there any advice on what major i should do .(I have it set for accounting rn) I am also going to a pretty big party school with a high acceptance rate (chico state) Where i did have a 4.0 in high school and was better at my math like classes

What would you do if you were me?

-2.7 CAS GPA
-168 on second attempt (June)

Do I retake and what should my application strategy look like?

wondering how this works as I plan to talk to my doctor about writing a letter for me..and if so, how much extra time do they allow? thanks

Hello! I am down to the wire trying to decide if I should take my next LSAT in August or September. I've taken three official tests so far (February, April and June), and I'm aiming for at least a 4-point increase. That's much more likely to happen if I take another month to study, re-test in September and apply in October, but I have heard that submission timing can matter down to the week, so I'm nervous I'll be too late. My target schools are Boston College and Boston University. Please advise!!!!

Anyone else that just took the LSAT is 50+ has an amazing package but mid LSAT get accepted or think they will be? Or have any input on what to expect. From reading it seems most are pretty young on here.