Ranking Undergraduate Schools By Average LSAT Score

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It is helpful for law school applicants to know the average LSAT score of their undergraduate school as well as the median GPA for potential law school applicants from their undergraduate school as that information is sent to law schools by the LSDAS (law school data assembly service) along with the applicant’s LSAT score & undergraduate GPA as recalculated by LSDAS.

Not really helpful to you, the applicant. The only thing that matters is whether you, the applicant, have a LSAT score above the law school’s median. That is what Adcoms care about.

I’d argue that an undergrad institution’s average LSAT score demonstrates the average standardized test-taking ability of its students…

No question. Those undergrads at the top of the LSAT heap purposely Admit strong test takers. In other words, their sorting-hat (for the unhooked) excludes weak test takers.

What would be very interesting data is the acceptance rate by undergrad institution of their students applying to T15-20 law programs, and what the median LSAT and GPA scores were of the successful applicants. That would give some insight on whether attending specific schools is itself a boost.

There is some anecdotal info that indicates for the same numbers, Yale Law gives a boost to applicants from Yale College; ditto HLS and Harvard College.