LSD.Law Guide
A short manual for everything on LSD.Law — what the numbers mean, how the rankings work, and how to use the tools to plan your cycle.
Researching Schools
Reading a School Profile
A walkthrough of every number on an LSD.Law school profile — LSAT/GPA medians, acceptance rates, employment outcomes, financials, and the Data Explorer.
Comparing Law Schools Side by Side
How to use LSD.Law's school comparison tool to weigh two schools against each other on rankings, admissions data, financials, employment outcomes, and cross-admit decisions.
How LSD.Law Ranks Law Schools
How the LSD.Law ranking is computed — a Bradley-Terry pairwise preference model fit to where cross-admitted applicants actually choose to enroll.
ABA 509 Reports Explained
What the ABA Standard 509 report is, why every law school files one, and how LSD.Law uses them as a ground truth for admissions, employment, and financial data.
Your Chances
How the Admissions Predictor Works
Understand the gradient-boosted model behind LSD.Law's admissions chances predictor — what data it's trained on, the 54 features it uses, and the three-way probability it returns.
Searching Past Applicants
How to use LSD.Law's applicant search to browse nearly a million self-reported application outcomes by LSAT, GPA, demographics, and cycle year.
Tracking the Cycle
Reading the Cycle Tracker
How to read LSD.Law's cycle tracker — an aggregate dashboard that benchmarks the current admissions cycle against prior years across every law school on the site.
The Recent Decisions Feed
How to read LSD.Law's recent decisions feed: a live stream of self-reported application outcomes updated as applicants report them.
The Heard Back Tracker
How to read LSD.Law's heard back tracker — a heatmap showing what percentage of applicants have received a response from each school, broken down by when they applied.
After You Hear Back
Scholarship Calculator
How to use LSD.Law's per-school scholarship calculator: enter your LSAT and GPA to see the average 3-year award accepted applicants in your band actually received, plus the scatter plots and band tables behind the estimate.
The Waitlist Dashboard
How to read LSD.Law's per-school waitlist dashboard: historical waitlist movement, the current pool, and the applicant profile of those who came off in past cycles.
Closing Out Your Cycle
How to use LSD.Law's cycle review page to report your final results at each school, log scholarships and timing dates, choose where you're attending, and share advice with future applicants.
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