T14 medians cluster at 170 to 173.
Each school, with the 25th and 75th.
2025 LSAT medians for all 14 top law schools, sourced from 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Reports (Fall 2024 entering class). Yale, Harvard, Stanford through Georgetown and Cornell, with the 25th and 75th percentile bands and UGPA bands for each.
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T14 LSAT medians are the most-cited numbers in law school admissions. This guide presents the 2025 data with context on what the medians mean, how to read the 25th and 75th percentile bands, and what the scholarship signal looks like at each tier.
What is the T14
The T14 is a colloquial term for the approximately 14 law schools that have remained in the top tier of US News law school rankings consistently enough that employers and applicants treat them as a distinct group. Employers, particularly large law firms and federal clerkship chambers, reliably recruit from this set of schools. The ranking order within the T14 shifts year to year; the composition of the group is relatively stable.
The 14 schools commonly included are: Yale, Harvard, Stanford, Columbia, University of Chicago, NYU, Penn, Virginia, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Georgetown, and UC Berkeley. Some analysts extend the group to 16 or 18 to include Texas, Vanderbilt, and others, but the core 14 is the conventional reference.
2025 LSAT medians: T14 schools (Fall 2024 entering class)
The following data comes from 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Reports for the Fall 2024 entering class. ABA 509 disclosures are published annually by each accredited law school and represent the authoritative public source for LSAT statistics. Medians and percentile bands shift each admissions cycle; consulting the most recent disclosure for a target school is the accurate method.
| School | LSAT 25th | LSAT 50th | LSAT 75th | UGPA 25th | UGPA 50th | UGPA 75th | 1L Enrollment | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yale Law School | 171 | 174 | 177 | 3.90 | 3.96 | 4.00 | 204 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Stanford Law School | 171 | 173 | 176 | 3.87 | 3.96 | 4.00 | 193 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Harvard Law School | 171 | 174 | 176 | 3.89 | 3.96 | 4.00 | 579 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| University of Chicago Law School | 171 | 174 | 176 | 3.87 | 3.97 | 4.00 | 203 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Columbia Law School | 169 | 173 | 175 | 3.85 | 3.92 | 3.98 | 444 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School | 167 | 173 | 174 | 3.77 | 3.95 | 4.00 | 265 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| New York University School of Law | 169 | 172 | 174 | 3.81 | 3.92 | 3.97 | 452 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| University of Virginia School of Law | 168 | 173 | 175 | 3.83 | 3.99 | 4.04 | 309 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| UC Berkeley School of Law | 167 | 170 | 172 | 3.84 | 3.92 | 3.99 | 374 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| University of Michigan Law School | 168 | 171 | 173 | 3.74 | 3.88 | 3.95 | 343 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Duke Law School | 169 | 171 | 172 | 3.83 | 3.91 | 3.96 | 227 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Northwestern Pritzker School of Law | 167 | 173 | 175 | 3.76 | 3.96 | 4.00 | 250 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Cornell Law School | 168 | 173 | 175 | 3.75 | 3.92 | 3.97 | 217 | 2025 ABA 509 |
| Georgetown University Law Center | 166 | 171 | 173 | 3.75 | 3.93 | 3.98 | 672 | 2025 ABA 509 |
Source: ABA Required Disclosures
Georgetown enrolls full-time and part-time JD students. The LSAT percentiles above use the All-enrollees column from the 2025 ABA 509 report.
How to read these numbers
The median is the score at which half the admitted class scored above and half scored below. The 25th percentile is the LSAT score below which 25 percent of the class scored; applicants below this score are in the bottom quartile for that school's class. The 75th percentile is the score below which 75 percent of the class scored; scoring at or above this level places the applicant in the top quartile of the class's LSAT distribution.
These bands are not cutoffs. Law schools use holistic review. Applicants below the 25th percentile LSAT are admitted each cycle, particularly those with strong GPAs, significant work experience, or underrepresented applicant status. Applicants above the 75th percentile LSAT are sometimes waitlisted or rejected for other reasons.
The scholarship signal
Law schools compete for high-LSAT applicants. A score at the 75th percentile or above typically qualifies for scholarship consideration because it raises the school's reported median and percentile bands. Applicants with a score well above a school's median often receive merit scholarship offers that applicants at the median do not. The scholarship signal reverses at the very top: at Yale, Harvard, and Stanford, very few applicants score below the 25th percentile band of 171, so the scholarship pull from LSAT is more compressed.
Canadian law schools
Canadian admissions data is less standardized than US data. ABA 509 reports cover US ABA-accredited schools only. Each Canadian school publishes its own admissions data on its admissions page, and not every school discloses a median or band.
Based on each school's own admissions page: the University of Toronto Faculty of Law reported a median LSAT of 168 (94th percentile) for its 2025 entering class. UBC Allard School of Law reports a median of 166 (93rd percentile) for successful applicants. Western University Faculty of Law reported a median of 162 for its Class of 2028. Queen's University Faculty of Law reported an average LSAT of 161 for its Class of 2028. Osgoode Hall Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law do not publish LSAT statistics on their official admissions pages. No Canadian school in this set publishes 25th or 75th percentile bands.
Each school publishes its own admissions data; the linked source is the canonical page.
Common questions
What LSAT score do I need for Yale Law School?
Yale Law School reported a median LSAT of 174 and a 75th percentile of 177 for its Fall 2024 entering class, per the 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report. Applicants below 170 are rarely admitted. Yale has the smallest entering class of any T14 school, at 204 students, making its LSAT distribution the most compressed.
What is the lowest LSAT score accepted at a T14 school?
There is no absolute floor. The 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Reports show 25th percentile LSAT scores as low as 166 at Georgetown and 167 at Berkeley and Penn. Some applicants below that percentile are admitted each cycle. The 25th percentile is not a cutoff; it describes where one-quarter of the admitted class scored.
Do T14 law schools average multiple LSAT scores?
Most T14 schools consider the highest LSAT score. Some schools average scores; the policy varies. Applicants should verify each school's multiple-score policy before deciding whether to retake. LSAC publishes all scores from the preceding five years, and schools receive all of them regardless of which one they weight.
Is the T14 ranking the same every year?
The composition of the T14 is largely stable, but the order within it shifts each year with US News rankings. The schools themselves, their hiring outcomes, and their LSAT medians remain the primary basis for the grouping regardless of annual ranking movement.
Do T14 law schools consider GPA as important as LSAT?
Both LSAT and GPA matter for T14 admission, but the effective weight is not published. Empirical analysis of applicant-reported outcomes suggests LSAT carries more marginal weight at the top of the competitive range, because the GPA distribution among T14 applicants is compressed near 3.75 to 4.00. A high LSAT can partially compensate for a GPA below the class median; a high GPA rarely compensates for an LSAT well below the class median at T14 schools.
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