The LSAT by the numbers
The LSAT by the numbers, from LSAC-published sources: more than 76,000 people applied to law school in the 2024-2025 cycle, an 18% increase. Test takers for the first four administrations of the 2026 cycle were up 19% with over 112,000 test takers. In November 2025, 64% of test takers were repeaters, the highest share in three years.
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How many people take the LSAT
- More than 76,000 people applied to law school in the 2024–2025 admission cycle, the highest volume of applicants since 2011 and an 18% increase over the 2023–2024 cycle. Source: LSAC Knowledge Report: The 2024–25 Law School Applicant Profile.
- Early 2026-cycle data: test takers for the first four administrations (August through November) were up 19% over the same administrations the prior year, with over 112,000 test takers. Source: LSAC Keeping Up to Data, December 2025.
- 64% of November 2025 test takers were repeaters, the highest repeater share LSAC had seen over the prior three years. Source: LSAC Keeping Up to Data, December 2025.
Where scores land: LSAC's percentile table
LSAC publishes a percentile table covering the 2023–2024, 2024–2025, and 2025–2026 testing years. The percentile rank for a score is the percentage of recent scores below it. Reference points from the whole-number column:
| Scaled score | Percent of recent scores below it |
|---|---|
| 175 | 98.7% |
| 170 | 94.5% |
| 168 | 91.4% |
| 165 | 85.2% |
| 160 | 71.1% |
| 155 | 54.0% |
| 150 | 36.6% |
| 145 | 21.5% |
Source: LSAC's published percentile table (tenths column shown). Last verified October 12, 2026.
The middle of the field
- The middle 50% of all test takers scored between 145 and 160 (2023–2024 testing year). Source: LSAC 2024 Knowledge Report: 2023–2024 Test Takers (PDF).
- Mean score 150.82, median 151 in LSAC's analysis of 218,243 test sessions during the 2024 format-change study. Source: LSAC, "What to Expect Starting With the August 2024 LSAT".
What LSAC's research finds
- The LSAT score is a stronger predictor of first-year law school success than undergraduate GPA, and the LSAT plus UGPA together predict better than either alone. Source: LSAC Keeping Up to Data, December 2025, summarizing the 2020–2024 LSAT correlation study results.
- The revised format (two Logical Reasoning sections, no Analytical Reasoning, from August 2024) changed most scores by one point or less in LSAC's analysis, with virtually the same predictive validity. Source: LSAC, "What to Expect Starting With the August 2024 LSAT".
A note on how we use these numbers
We link LSAC's own pages above so you can read the originals. Our scoring guide explains the raw-to-scaled conversion, and the score converter maps practice raw scores to the 120–180 scale with percentile context from the same LSAC table. Estimates are labeled as estimates.
Page last verified October 12, 2026. If LSAC updates a table, this page gets updated too.
Last updated October 12, 2026