If I had to guess, I'm thinking you're talking about the difficulty of the test overall. So you're suggesting because it was a hard prep test that the actual score you would receive on test day would be higher than this score and more in line with your other test scores you've been receiving on your practice tests.

But tests are scaled to their difficulty so even if you missed more than you usually do, you could get a higher score based on how the test is scaled.

https://classic.7sage.com/lsat-score-percentile-conversion/

This link shows how each test is scaled. Generally if you look at the 170 on the chart anything above a -10 on the curve tends to be a bit more of a hard test. While a -10 tends to be about average on the difficulty scale.

For example, if you miss -8 and get a 170, it would be a "easy" test. While if you were to take a test and miss -12 it is generally seen as a harder test.

I'm not sure if I answered your question, but maybe you or somebody else could clarify.

Edit: Looks like I was completely off. But I'll leave this in hopes that it'll help somebody else :)

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Generally it doesn't matter too much. It can help if you were to go top school like Princeton or something. And in theory it can hurt if you've gone to school they've never heard of, but that is extremely rare.

All the admissions officers I've talked to mainly say that it doesn't matter where you went. They just want to see you excel wherever you went. Overall your GPA is the most important because law schools much rather see a high GPA than a low GPA from a great school, since this impacts their rankings the most.

I'd like to see a blog post about the influx of applicants this last year and the impact it had the schools 25%/50%/75% LSAT and GPA. And if you anticipate this cycle being more competitive than last based on this?

Did any proctors give an estimated time when scores would be released?