Updated List of Medians and App Requirements

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• pgv2013 Alum Member

  December 2019 59 karma

  Is LSAT score = Median considered "above" the median or "hitting the median"?
• David Busis Member Moderator

  December 2019 7285 karma

  If your LSAT score is equal to a school's median LSAT score, then you hit the median.
• umich101 Alum Member

  December 2019 364 karma

  To clarify:
  For the minority student total, is that for all three classes? And in terms of the scholarships, is that only performance-based or does that include need-based as well?

   Thank you so much for this list!
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  allison24 Member

  December 2019 edited December 2019 19 karma

  Some of these tuition rates are totally bogus. Georgetown says: $32,274 on here and in actuality directly from their website: "For the 2019-2020 school year, full-time tuition is $64,548."

  $64,548?! Explain that to me. Harvard: $64,978. U Penn: $63,610. Three years of this: $195K. That's just tuition. Not at all including living expenses. It's totally, totally, stupidly ridiculous. How much would you have to make after graduation to even make taking on that amount of debt worth it?? What yearly salary would make you say, "Yah, $200K in the hole is totally worth it!"

  There are schools charging less than half of those above! Like take for example, Ohio State: $31,450. Even their out of state tuition is "just": $46,402. I think even that is totally ridiculous. I'm either getting a ton of scholarships bc I busted my ass studying for the LSAT or I'm totally not doing this. Those schools killing people's finances straight out of the gate border on corruption.

  And wow, excuse that rant, lol. I only even started this post to point out that some of the tuitions rates are inaccurate.
• axbSunDev Member

  December 2019 256 karma

  For a better shot at scholarship opportunities, is it best to always get a score above the median?
• David Busis Member Moderator

  December 2019 edited December 2019 7285 karma

  @umich101 minority total is for all three classes. Scholarship numbers reflect all grants (as opposed to loans), whether merit- or need-based.

  @allison24 These numbers come straight from each school's 509 ABA disclosures. I pulled the column for full-time resident semester tuition (i.e., HALF of the annual tuition for a full-time student), but some schools obviously listed total annual tuition instead. I corrected Yale and Cornell's, but I'm sure there are others in the column that show annual tuition instead of a single semester.

  @axbSunDev Yes.
• meye2057 Alum Member

  December 2019 10 karma

  I am wondering about columns ab and ac- would someone who receives 100% tuition be in AB? Is column AC only for those who receive full tuition plus additional money for living expenses etc? Thanks!
• meye2057 Alum Member

  December 2019 10 karma

  I was looking at applying to St. Thomas and am very surprised to see that their average lsat score for the 75th percentile has dropped 7 points! Any reason for such a significant drop?
• HoneyBunny Free Trial Member

  January 2020 2 karma

  Thank you for putting all this together...it is a wonderful tool!
• David Busis Member Moderator

  January 2020 edited January 2020 7285 karma

  @meye2057 anyone who gets full tuition or more than full tuition will go in AC, not AB.

  @gynette75 I'm glad it's useful!
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  jsolomon759 Member

  January 2020 51 karma

  I think the infomation for Syracuse Law has a mistake, the finicial aid deadline is 2/1/20 and the application deadline is 7/15/20. Sounds really strange that those dates would be so far apart. Also, I couldn't find that deadline on their website.