If thinking about attending law school, one’s best use of time & money would be for LSAT preparation.
A high LSAT score opens up doors to the best law schools & to the best scholarship offers from law schools.
What constitutes a “high” LSAT score varies by school and is usually determined by any particular law school’s median LSAT score for the most recent matriculated class of law students. So, for example, if the median LSAT score for Law School X was & is 163, then any LSAT score of 164 or higher would be considered a high LSAT score for that law school.
Yale Law School, the smallest & most selective of the top law schools, maintains a median LSAT score of about 173 on the 180 point scale. Accordingly, if one earns an LSAT score of 174 or higher, then there is no need to retake the LSAT as a score of 174 exceeds all median LSAT scores for all 200 ABA acredited law schools in the US.
Canadian Law Schools also use the LSAT, but tend to value applicants’ undergraduate GPA slightly more than one’s LSAT score. US law schools do the opposite & give more weight in the admission’s decision to one’s LSAT score than to one’s undergraduate GPA. (Canadian law schools are more generous when calculating one’s undergraduate GPA than are US law schools.)
In short, in the US, one’s LSAT score can result in law school admission and in significant law school merit scholarship money.