Home>The Application Process>Determining the Right Law School>Yes Points

PrelawAdvisor.com's Estimated 2008 “Yes-Points” for Law School Applicants

By Brad Dobeck, Esq.
President, PrelawAdvisor.com
(formerly Prelaw Advisor, MBNA Career Education Center, Georgetown University)
April 2007

This table represents a current estimate of the GPA and LSAT score at which a law school is likely to accept an applicant from Georgetown University (the "Yes-Point"). For other schools, adjust upward or downward based on the competitiveness of your undergraduate institution. Use these estimates only as a starting point; results will vary significantly based on the applicant's achievements, ethnic background (in some cases), family resources, supporting recommendations and application strategy.

The data examined for this table include the Top 50 law schools' fall 2006 admission decisions. Schools are grouped by Difficulty Category (1 through 14). Within each Difficulty Category, schools are ranked according to estimated admission difficulty.

Rank Law School GPA LSAT
   
1 Yale 3.9 173
       
2 Stanford 3.87 170
2 Harvard 3.84 172
       
3 NYU 3.74 170
3 Columbia 3.67 171
       
4 Chicago 3.64 170
       
5 Duke 3.76 167
5 University of California-Berkeley 3.79 166
5 University of Virginia (nonresidents) 3.66 169
5 University of Pennsylvania 3.66 169
5 Georgetown (Day Program) 3.65 169
5 Northwestern 3.6 169
       
6 University of Michigan 3.67 168
6 Cornell 3.65 167
       
7 Vanderbilt 3.69 166
7 UCLA 3.63 166
7 USC 3.61 166
       
8 Boston University 3.68 165
8 GWU 3.63 165
8 Fordham 3.58 165
8 University of Texas 3.57 165
8 Washington & Lee 3.51 165
       
8 Notre Dame 3.49 165
9 William & Mary 3.6 164
8 Boston College 3.59 164
8 University of Minnesota 3.5 165
9 BYU 3.6 163
9 University of Colorado 3.56 162
       
10 Washington University-St. Louis 3.45 164
10 University of Illinois 3.43 164
       
11 Wake Forest 3.45 163
11 Emory 3.45 163
11 George Mason University 3.44 163
       
12 University of Washington 3.67 162
12 University of Maryland 3.59 163
12 University of California-Hastings 3.58 162
12 University of California-Davis 3.54 162
12 George Mason University 3.44 163
       
12 University of Alabama 3.56 162
12 University of Iowa 3.62 161
12 University of North Carolina 3.58 161
12 Ohio State University 3.58 161
12 University of Arizona 3.52 161
12 University of Georgia 3.62 160
       
13 Southern Methodist University 3.58 161
13 Tulane University 3.53 161
13 Indiana University-Bloomington 3.51 161
13 University of Connecticut 3.47 161
13 American University (Day Program) 3.38 161
13 University of Wisconsin 3.48 159
       
14 University of Florida 3.63 158