About LSD.Law
Free tools for every step of the law school admissions cycle — built on real applicant data.
Our Mission
Law school is a three-year, six-figure commitment. Applicants deserve to make that decision with real data. LSD.Law is the largest public dataset of self-reported admissions outcomes — and the free tools applicants use to make sense of it.
What We Offer
For Applicants
- Interactive data explorer on every law school page
- Admissions predictor with probabilities for every school
- Searchable database of every reported application since 2003
- Live decisions feed showing who heard back and when
- Automated application status tracking across law school portals
- Rankings built on where admitted applicants actually enroll
For Students
Once you're in, LSD.Law has tools for 1L coursework too.
- AI-enhanced case briefs
- Interactive legal dictionary
Why We Built This
Law school admissions is opaque by design. Schools publish medians, not scattergrams. They publish acceptance rates, not the LSATs and GPAs behind them. They publish scholarship ranges, not the numbers you can actually negotiate. LSD exists so applicants can see the data the schools won't show them.
We've added 1L coursework tools since — case briefs, outlines, a legal dictionary — but the applicant dataset is still the core of the site.
Why LSD Is Free
LSD is ad-supported. Most of our revenue comes from display advertising and revenue-share partnerships — not subscriptions, not user data, not premium tiers. We're building out a handful of referral partnerships too, but ads pay the bills.
We chose this model for one reason: access. Applying to law school is already expensive. Between the LSAT, application fees, seat deposits, and admissions consultants, applicants routinely spend thousands of dollars before they ever start 1L — and LSAC is diligent about extracting every fee it can.
A paywall would lock out the applicants who need the data most: the ones without family money or a coach on retainer. Ads aren't elegant, but they keep every chart, every data point, and every page free.
Our Team
LSD.Law was built by two friends with backgrounds in law, technology, and finance — and a shared frustration with how opaque the law school admissions process is.
Recovering partner of a law school/internship/clerkship applicant. Constantly droning on and on that 'businesses' need to 'make money' because of 'crippling student debt.'
Community Contributors
Moderators and contributors who help run the site:
nota999
Georgetown Law '24 (moderator)
JoeD
Penn Law '24 (moderator)
apple12
WUSTL Law '24 (moderator)
FlamingKoala
UGA Law '24 (moderator)
Grandma
WUSTL Law '24 (moderator)
Hamotron
Northwestern Law '25 (moderator)
TroutLawyer
Michigan Law '25 (moderator)
StandUnderNone
Notre Dame Law '25 (moderator)
Zachary Swanson
Northeastern Law '26 (security contributor)
seventensplit
TBD '29 (status checker API)
MightyUnableSphinx
TBD '29 (color-coded map, bug reports)
Get In Touch
Have feedback, questions, or ideas? We'd love to hear from you at
hello@lsd.law