Based on definition of Abbreviationfinder, LSAT stands for Law School Admission Test. About six weeks after you take the LSAT, Law Services will send you a report with your score. The report explains how to interpret your score, but in general, here’s how it works. You receive a “raw” score that is converted to a “scaled” score of between 120 and 180, depending on the difficulty of the LSAT you took. Your scaled score is grouped into something called a “score band”, which is a statistical grouping of your scaled score plus or minus three points with a 68% level of confidence. This means, for example, that a person with a scaled score of 150 will score between 147 and 153 about 68% of the time. Note that this score band is not an absolute predictor of what your LSAT score will be should you choose to take the test again. It is simply a statistical ranking of your scaled score based upon probabilities compiled by Law Services. Depending on the circumstances, you might do worse than three points lower, or better than three points higher.
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The average LSAT scaled score is around 151, and more than 50% score between 145 and 159. A scaled score of 160 to 165 puts you in very good company, and you are in an elite group with a scaled score of 166 or better. Your scaled score will be ranked in a percentile, which is the percentage of test takers that you outscored. For example, a 75th percentile score means that you outscored 75% of the test takers, and that 25% outscored you. On the LSAT, a handful of correct answers can make a huge percentile difference. The difference between the 50th percentile and the 75th percentile is around three questions per section; the difference between the 90th and the 95th percentiles is less than two questions per section.
If you get your LSAT score and you are disappointed with it, try not to get discouraged. Think back on your test preparation and test taking techniques. Perhaps you did not put enough quality effort into preparing. You may have had a bad experience taking the test. If you were sick, or you were distracted by personal problems, you may not have been able to give your best effort. Of course, some people just tend to do poorly on standardized tests.
If you find fault with your studying or test taking methods, or you were having a bad day on the day of the test, retake it. If your score is low but not a disaster, and if you are sure you gave it your best effort, then maybe you need to rethink your choices of law schools. Remember, your goal is to get into law school. Sure, you’d like to get into a great law school, but you must to be realistic about where your LSAT score can take you. If you have to settle for what was initially your second, third or fourth choice of law schools, do it. Once you get into an ABA-approved law school, then work hard and do what is expected of you. You’ll get a fine legal education.
The following is a table of LSAT score percentiles for each law school:
| Ranking | Law School | Average LSAT Scores |
| 1 | Harvard University Law School | 170-176 |
| 2 | Columbia University Law School | 170-175 |
| 3 | Yale University Law School | 169-177 |
| 4 | New York University School of Law | 169-173 |
| 5 | University of Chicago Law School | 169-173 |
| 6 | Stanford University Law School | 168-172 |
| 7 | Northwestern University Law School | 166-172 |
| 8 | University of Pennsylvania Law School | 166-171 |
| 9 | University of Virginia School of Law | 166-171 |
| 10 | Georgetown University Law Center | 166-170 |
| 11 | University of Michigan–Ann Arbor Law School | 166-170 |
| 12 | Cornell University Law School | 166-168 |
| 13 | Duke University School of Law | 165-170 |
| 14 | University of Southern California Gould School of Law | 165-167 |
| 15 | University of California–Berkeley School of Law | 164-170 |
| 16 | University of California–Los Angeles School of Law | 164-169 |
| 17 | Vanderbilt University Law School | 164-169 |
| 18 | University of Texas–Austin School of Law | 164-168 |
| 19 | Emory University School of Law | 164-166 |
| 20 | University of Minnesota–Twin Cities Law School | 163-167 |
| 21 | Boston University School of Law | 163-166 |
| 22 | University of Notre Dame Law School | 163-166 |
| 23 | George Washington University Law School | 162-168 |
| 24 | Washington University in St. Louis School of Law | 162-168 |
| 25 | Boston College Law School | 162-165 |
| 26 | Brooklyn Law School | 162-165 |
| 27 | Brigham Young University J. Reuben Clark Law School | 161-166 |
| 28 | Fordham University School of Law | 161-166 |
| 29 | University of California Hastings College of the Law | 161-165 |
| 30 | University of Illinois–Urbana-Champaign College of Law | 160-167 |
| 31 | College of William and Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law | 160-166 |
| 32 | Washington and Lee University School of Law | 160-166 |
| 33 | George Mason University School of Law | 160-165 |
| 34 | University of Colorado–Boulder Law School | 160-165 |
| 35 | University of Maryland School of Law | 160-165 |
| 36 | Wake Forest University School of Law | 160-165 |
| 37 | Villanova University School of Law | 160-163 |
| 38 | University of Washington School of Law | 159-166 |
| 39 | Yeshiva University Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law | 159-165 |
| 40 | Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law | 159-164 |
| 41 | Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law | 159-164 |
| 42 | University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law | 159-164 |
| 43 | University of Georgia Law School | 159-164 |
| 44 | American University Washington College of Law | 159-163 |
| 45 | Tulane University School of Law | 159-163 |
| 46 | University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law | 159-162 |
| 47 | University of Alabama School of Law | 158-165 |
| 48 | University of Iowa College of Law | 158-164 |
| 49 | Loyola Marymount University Law School | 158-163 |
| 50 | University of California–Davis School of Law | 158-163 |
| 51 | Georgia State University College of Law | 158-162 |
| 52 | Pepperdine University School of Law | 158-162 |
| 53 | University of San Diego School of Law | 158-162 |
| 54 | Illinois Institute of Technology Chicago-Kent College of Law | 157-163 |
| 55 | Lewis & Clark College Northwestern School of Law | 157-163 |
| 56 | University of Houston Law Center | 157-163 |
| 57 | University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill School of Law | 157-163 |
| 58 | University of Wisconsin–Madison Law School | 157-163 |
| 59 | University of Kentucky College of Law | 157-162 |
| 60 | University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law | 157-162 |
| 61 | Florida State University College of Law | 157-161 |
| 62 | Santa Clara University School of Law | 157-161 |
| 63 | University of Pittsburgh School of Law | 157-161 |
| 64 | Rutgers School of Law – Camden | 157-160 |
| 65 | University of Oregon School of Law | 157-160 |
| 66 | Indiana University–Bloomington Maurer School of Law | 156-165 |
| 67 | Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law | 156-162 |
| 68 | Baylor University Sheila & Walter Umphrey Law Center | 156-162 |
| 69 | University of Cincinnati College of Law | 156-162 |
| 70 | University of Connecticut School of Law | 156-162 |
| 71 | University of Florida Levin College of Law | 156-162 |
| 72 | DePaul University College of Law | 156-161 |
| 73 | University of San Francisco School of Law | 156-161 |
| 74 | Case Western Reserve University School of Law | 156-160 |
| 75 | University of Missouri School of Law | 156-160 |
| 76 | University of South Carolina School of Law | 156-160 |
| 77 | Drexel University Earle Mack School of Law | 155-161 |
| 78 | St. John’s University School of Law | 155-161 |
| 79 | Rutgers School of Law-Newark | 155-160 |
| 80 | University of Denver Sturm College of Law | 155-160 |
| 81 | University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law | 155-160 |
| 82 | University of Miami School of Law | 155-160 |
| 83 | University of Nebraska–Lincoln College of Law | 155-160 |
| 84 | University of Nevada–Las Vegas William S. Boyd School of Law | 155-160 |
| 85 | Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law | 155-159 |
| 86 | Chapman University School of Law | 155-159 |
| 87 | University of Maine School of Law | 155-159 |
| 88 | University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law | 155-159 |
| 89 | Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law | 154-165 |
| 90 | Loyola University Chicago School of Law | 154-162 |
| 91 | Northeastern University School of Law | 154-162 |
| 92 | University of Tennessee–Knoxville College of Law | 154-161 |
| 93 | Seattle University School of Law | 154-160 |
| 94 | Seton Hall University School of Law | 154-160 |
| 95 | University at Buffalo–SUNY Law School | 154-160 |
| 96 | University of Kansas School of Law | 154-160 |
| 97 | University of Oklahoma College of Law | 154-160 |
| 98 | University of St. Thomas School of Law | 154-160 |
| 99 | Louisiana State University–Baton Rouge Paul M. Hebert Law Center | 154-159 |
| 100 | Marquette University Law School | 154-159 |
| 101 | Pennsylvania State University Dickinson School of Law | 154-159 |
| 102 | Quinnipiac University School of Law | 154-159 |
| 103 | Texas Tech University School of Law | 154-159 |
| 104 | University of Mississippi School of Law | 154-159 |
| 105 | Samford University Cumberland School of Law | 154-158 |
| 106 | University of Memphis Cecil C. Humphreys School of Law | 154-158 |
| 107 | St. Louis University School of Law | 153-159 |
| 108 | University of Arkansas–Fayetteville School of Law | 153-159 |
| 109 | University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law | 153-159 |
| 110 | Suffolk University School of Law | 153-158 |
| 111 | Campbell University Norman Adrian Wiggins School of Law | 153-157 |
| 112 | Drake University Law School | 153-157 |
| 113 | Mercer University School of Law | 153-157 |
| 114 | Southwestern Law School | 153-157 |
| 115 | Gonzaga University School of Law | 153-156 |
| 116 | University of Toledo College of Law | 152-159 |
| 117 | Hofstra University School of Law | 152-158 |
| 118 | Vermont Law School | 152-158 |
| 119 | Cleveland State University Cleveland-Marshall College of Law | 152-157 |
| 120 | Stetson University College of Law | 152-157 |
| 121 | University of Missouri–Kansas City School of Law | 152-157 |
| 122 | University of Tulsa College of Law | 152-157 |
| 123 | Willamette University Truman Wesley Collins Legal Center | 152-157 |
| 124 | Albany Law School | 152-156 |
| 125 | Florida International University College of Law | 152-156 |
| 126 | John Marshall Law School | 152-156 |
| 127 | Pace University Law School | 152-156 |
| 128 | Syracuse University College of Law | 152-156 |
| 129 | Indiana University–Indianapolis School of Law | 151-159 |
| 130 | Michigan State University College of Law | 151-157 |
| 131 | New York Law School | 151-157 |
| 132 | University of Idaho College of Law | 151-157 |
| 133 | Creighton University School of Law | 151-156 |
| 134 | Northern Kentucky University Salmon P. Chase College of Law | 151-156 |
| 135 | Southern Illinois University–Carbondale School of Law | 151-156 |
| 136 | University of Baltimore School of Law | 151-156 |
| 137 | University of Montana School of Law | 151-156 |
| 138 | CUNY–Queens College School of Law | 151-155 |
| 139 | Golden Gate University School of Law | 151-155 |
| 140 | Northern Illinois University College of Law | 151-155 |
| 141 | Whittier Law School | 151-155 |
| 142 | Duquesne University School of Law | 151-154 |
| 143 | University of Akron School of Law | 150-158 |
| 144 | University of New Mexico School of Law | 150-157 |
| 145 | William Mitchell College of Law | 150-157 |
| 146 | Hamline University Law School | 150-156 |
| 147 | Howard University School of Law | 150-156 |
| 148 | Regent University School of Law | 150-156 |
| 149 | South Texas College of Law | 150-156 |
| 150 | West Virginia University College of Law | 150-156 |
| 151 | California Western School of Law | 150-155 |
| 152 | Capital University Law School | 150-155 |
| 153 | Elon University School of Law | 150-155 |
| 154 | Texas Wesleyan University School of Law | 150-155 |
| 155 | University of Wyoming College of Law | 150-155 |
| 156 | Washburn University School of Law | 150-155 |
| 157 | New England School of Law | 150-154 |
| 158 | Wayne State University Law School | 149-157 |
| 159 | Charleston School of Law | 149-156 |
| 160 | Loyola University New Orleans School of Law | 149-156 |
| 161 | Franklin Pierce Law Center | 149-155 |
| 162 | Roger Williams University School of Law | 149-155 |
| 163 | St. Mary’s University School of Law | 149-155 |
| 164 | University of Arkansas–Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law | 149-155 |
| 165 | University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law | 149-155 |
| 166 | Western New England College School of Law | 149-155 |
| 167 | Atlanta’s John Marshall Law School | 149-153 |
| 168 | Barry University School of Law | 149-153 |
| 169 | Charlotte School of Law | 149-153 |
| 170 | Phoenix School of Law | 149-153 |
| 171 | Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center | 149-153 |
| 172 | University of La Verne College of Law | 149-153 |
| 173 | Valparaiso University School of Law | 149-153 |
| 174 | Western State University College of Law | 149-153 |
| 175 | Widener University School of Law | 149-153 |
| 176 | Ohio Northern University Claude W. Pettit College of Law | 148-156 |
| 177 | University of South Dakota School of Law | 148-155 |
| 178 | Liberty University School of Law | 148-153 |
| 179 | Mississippi College School of Law | 148-153 |
| 180 | University of Dayton School of Law | 148-153 |
| 181 | University of North Dakota School of Law | 148-153 |
| 182 | St. Thomas University School of Law | 148-151 |
| 183 | Faulkner University Thomas Goode Jones School of Law | 147-153 |
| 184 | Florida Coastal School of Law | 147-153 |
| 185 | Appalachian School of Law | 147-152 |
| 186 | Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad Law Center | 147-152 |
| 187 | Oklahoma City University School of Law | 147-152 |
| 188 | Thomas Jefferson School of Law | 147-152 |
| 189 | Ave Maria School of Law | 146-153 |
| 190 | University of Detroit Mercy School of Law | 146-153 |
| 191 | Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law | 145-151 |
| 192 | North Carolina Central University School of Law | 144-150 |
| 193 | Thomas M. Cooley Law School | 144-149 |
| 194 | Florida A&M University School of Law | 143-149 |
| 195 | Southern University Law Center | 143-149 |
