How Accurate is LSD.Law?

LSD.Law data is self-reported by applicants. Every year we check our numbers against the official ABA Standard 509 reports — and they line up.

11,000+

Law school applicants

reported their 2025 cycle on LSD.Law

103,000+

Applications tracked

20% of every U.S. law school application this cycle

97%

Match within 2 LSAT points

of the official ABA 509 median across 90 schools

LSD medians vs. ABA 509 medians

Each dot is one law school. Dots on the dashed line mean LSD's median LSAT matches the school's official ABA 509 number exactly.

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Independent academic validation

UCLA law professor Richard Sander has used LSD.Law data in published admissions research. Before citing it he ran his own validity checks. In his words:

"Is the data accurate? Self-reported data from law students will inevitably have more errors, both deliberate and inadvertent, than data reported through official channels. We have found, however, that the lsd.law data holds up well when put to a variety of tests. First, the credentials students report are highly predictive of reported admissions outcomes. Second, the average credentials of students who report on lsd.law that they have accepted a law school offer closely match the average student credentials reported by the schools themselves. Third, and most persuasively, regressions modelling admissions with lsd.law data show very similar relationships between explanatory variables and admissions outcomes (“independent” and “dependent” variables) as admissions data obtained directly from law schools."

— Richard Sander, UCLA School of Law. SSRN working paper

Every school, side by side

Law schools with at least 20 LSD users who matriculated in the 2025 cycle, sorted by sample size. Green badges mean LSD is within 1 LSAT point or 0.10 GPA of the official number; amber within 2 points or 0.20; red is a larger miss.

97% within 2 LSAT points

82% within 1 LSAT point

91% within 0.20 GPA

81% within 0.10 GPA

School	LSD n	ABA LSAT	LSD LSAT	Δ LSAT	ABA GPA	LSD GPA	Δ GPA
Harvard University	100+	174.0	174.0	+0.0	3.96	3.96	+0.00
Georgetown University	50–99	171.0	171.0	+0.0	3.93	3.94	+0.01
University of Michigan	50–99	171.0	172.0	+1.0	3.88	3.83	-0.05
University of Texas at Austin	50–99	172.0	172.0	+0.0	3.89	3.82	-0.07
New York University	50–99	172.0	173.0	+1.0	3.92	3.90	-0.02
University of Pennsylvania	50–99	173.0	174.0	+1.0	3.95	3.95	-0.00
Columbia University	50–99	173.0	173.0	+0.0	3.92	3.92	+0.00
University of California—Los Angeles	50–99	171.0	172.0	+1.0	3.95	3.90	-0.05
University of Virginia	50–99	173.0	173.0	+0.0	3.99	4.00	+0.01
University of California—Berkeley	50–99	170.0	170.0	+0.0	3.92	3.95	+0.03
Northwestern University	50–99	173.0	173.0	+0.0	3.96	3.96	+0.00
Yale University	25–49	174.0	175.0	+1.0	3.96	3.97	+0.01
George Washington University	25–49	168.0	169.0	+1.0	3.86	3.81	-0.05
Duke University	25–49	171.0	171.0	+0.0	3.91	3.91	+0.00
Washington University in St. Louis	25–49	175.0	175.0	+0.0	3.96	3.77	-0.19
Emory University	25–49	166.0	166.0	+0.0	3.82	3.83	+0.01
University of Wisconsin	25–49	167.0	167.0	+0.0	3.81	3.73	-0.08
Stanford University	25–49	173.0	174.0	+1.0	3.96	3.96	+0.00
University of North Carolina	25–49	168.0	167.0	-1.0	3.89	3.91	+0.02
University of Southern California	25–49	169.0	169.0	+0.0	3.91	3.84	-0.07
Boston College	25–49	168.0	168.0	+0.0	3.83	3.79	-0.04
Boston University	25–49	170.0	170.0	+0.0	3.88	3.85	-0.03
Fordham University	25–49	168.0	168.5	+0.5	3.79	3.75	-0.04
University of Chicago	25–49	174.0	174.0	+0.0	3.97	3.99	+0.02
University of Florida (Levin)	25–49	169.0	169.0	+0.0	3.91	3.80	-0.11
Cornell University	25–49	173.0	173.0	+0.0	3.92	3.92	+0.00
University of Notre Dame	25–49	170.0	170.0	+0.0	3.89	3.88	-0.01
University of Minnesota	25–49	171.0	171.0	+0.0	3.88	3.72	-0.16
Wake Forest University	25–49	166.0	165.5	-0.5	3.79	3.76	-0.03
Vanderbilt University	25–49	170.0	170.0	+0.0	3.91	3.90	-0.01
Northeastern University	25–49	164.0	164.0	+0.0	3.77	3.80	+0.03
University of California—Irvine	25–49	169.0	168.0	-1.0	3.80	3.80	+0.00
Southern Methodist University	25–49	167.0	168.0	+1.0	3.81	3.84	+0.03
Temple University	25–49	165.0	166.0	+1.0	3.76	3.78	+0.02
University of Washington	25–49	165.0	164.0	-1.0	3.76	3.68	-0.08
William & Mary Law School	10–24	166.0	165.0	-1.0	3.82	3.88	+0.06
Villanova University	10–24	164.0	164.0	+0.0	3.80	3.83	+0.03
Arizona State University	10–24	165.0	166.0	+1.0	3.91	3.83	-0.08
University of San Diego	10–24	163.0	163.0	+0.0	3.84	3.82	-0.02
University of Illinois—Urbana Champaign	10–24	166.0	164.0	-2.0	3.81	3.81	-0.00
Indiana University - Bloomington	10–24	164.0	164.0	+0.0	3.91	3.91	+0.00
Loyola University—Chicago	10–24	161.0	160.5	-0.5	3.70	3.66	-0.04
Tulane University	10–24	161.0	162.0	+1.0	3.67	3.71	+0.04

Check it yourself

Every ABA-accredited law school publishes its median LSAT and GPA in an annual Standard 509 Required Disclosure. The table above puts LSD.Law's medians next to those official numbers for every school with enough reported matriculants. Pick any school and compare.

Frequently asked questions

How accurate is LSD.Law's admissions data?

Very. For the 2025 matriculating class, LSD.Law's median LSAT lands within one point of the official ABA 509 median at 82% of 90 schools, and within two points at 97%. You can see every school's numbers side by side on this page.

Isn't self-reported data unreliable?

People are broadly honest and there's not much incentive to misreport on LSD.Law. The occasional typo or unrepresentative sample could skew things in theory, but across 103,000 applications covering 20% of all U.S. law school applications, those errors wash out. That's why LSD's medians land where the ABA's do.

Data sources: LSD.Law user reports + ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosures. Keyed to the 2025 matriculating year.