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Hi everyone,

The ABA has published its 2020 509 reports. We've updated our resources to include (1) the most recent medians for every law school and (2) a bunch of other data. New and exciting this year: we can finally see some statistics on GRE scores.

See the new medians here (in the same Coda doc that has application requirements) or here (a Google spreadsheet—scroll right for GRE information).

We've highlighted the changes between this year's medians and last year's here.

We've pulled out some of the most interesting ABA data for each school here.

A few quick points of interest:

  • Georgetown and Harvard each admitted more students by GRE (44 and 36) than any other law school, and more by percent (7.26% and 7.19%) than all but six other law schools.

  • Harvard's GRE medians (167/163/5 for Verbal/Quant/Writing) have percentiles of about 98, 84, and 93. Contrast that with their LSAT median of 173, which is about a 99th percentile score.

  • T14 LSAT medians were static. Only Chicago changed its median—with an increase of one. (There was a bit more movement in 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles and in GPA percentiles, but not a lot.)

  • Yield is funny. Did you know, for example, that Indiana University's McKinney School of Law has a better yield (48.48%) than Harvard (45.97%)?

    • Happy exploring, and happy New Year's!

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      amb199727459
      Sunday, Jan 03 2021

      @jipthomas635 said:

      Starting to consider taking the GRE if things go south with my next LSAT take. Do you think a GRE score that's in the median or higher percentile could boost an application with below-median LSAT scores?

      If you already took the LSAT they will weigh ur LSAT over ur GRE, that is what they report. So no point in doing that

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      jipthomas635
      Sunday, Jan 03 2021

      Starting to consider taking the GRE if things go south with my next LSAT take. Do you think a GRE score that's in the median or higher percentile could boost an application with below-median LSAT scores?

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      peterhong245
      Thursday, Dec 31 2020

      thank you!!

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      fuiop9912193
      Wednesday, Dec 30 2020

      Thank you for this information!

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