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Law School Scholarship Calculator
Estimate the merit scholarship your LSAT and GPA could earn at a law school, then compare real offers by what you would actually pay over three years.
Estimate your law school scholarship
Estimate an award from your numbers, or compare offers you already have.
1. Your numbers
2. The school
Cost settings
This is a planning model, not a prediction from any school. Real scholarship offers depend on essays, timing, residency, and competition for the class. Use the school's own offer letter for final numbers.
Roughly 46% of tuition. LSAT standing 0.83, GPA standing 0.67 (0 is the 25th percentile, 1 is the 75th).
Low, likely, and high scenarios
Step by step work
Quick examples
How to use this law school scholarship calculator
Pick a tab
Estimate a scholarship from your numbers, or compare offers you hold.
Enter your stats
Add your LSAT and CAS GPA, then the school's 25th, median, and 75th numbers.
Add costs
Enter tuition and living costs, and set the yearly cost increase.
Read the result
See the estimated award, net cost, and the three-year total.
What is a law school scholarship calculator?
A law school scholarship calculator estimates how much merit aid your LSAT score and GPA could earn at a particular school, and what you would pay after the award. Merit scholarships are not random. Schools use them to attract applicants whose numbers help their class profile, so the gap between your numbers and a school's medians is the best guide to your leverage.
This calculator has two parts. The estimator turns that gap into an expected award and a likely range. The offer comparison tab takes the real offers you receive and shows the total cost of each over three years, including living costs and the risk of losing a conditional scholarship.
How the estimate is built
Each of your numbers is placed on a scale where the school's 25th percentile is 0, its median is 0.5, and its 75th percentile is 1. The two standings are blended, with the LSAT weighted more heavily by default.
The index is converted into a share of tuition, scaled by how generous the school is with merit aid, and multiplied by tuition to give the annual award.
Why medians matter
A school builds each class around target medians for LSAT and GPA, and it competes for the applicants who raise them. An applicant at or above the 75th percentile on both measures is often the kind of student a school will pay to enroll, while an applicant below the 25th percentile has little merit leverage.
The same score can mean very different things at different schools. A number that sits above the median at one school may sit below it at a higher ranked school, which is why a scholarship can be larger at a school where you are a stronger candidate.
Net cost and renewal risk
The sticker price of tuition tells you very little. The number that matters is what you pay after the scholarship, added up across all three years, with living costs included if you plan to borrow for them. A smaller award at a lower priced school can cost less overall than a larger award at an expensive one.
Conditional scholarships add risk. If an award depends on a GPA or class rank that a grading curve makes hard to hold, the real cost can rise after the first year. The comparison tab shows that worst case beside the expected cost.
How to use your estimate
Sort the schools you are considering into three groups. Reach schools are those where you are below the median and should expect little or no merit aid. Target schools are near the median, where a partial scholarship is realistic. Scholarship schools are those where you are close to the 75th percentile or above, where a large award is possible. Applying across all three groups gives you offers to compare, and a stronger offer from one school is the best tool for asking another to reconsider.
Verify the school's numbers before you rely on them. Schools publish their medians and tuition in their ABA required disclosures, and the figures change from year to year. More planning tools are in the Finance category.
A full worked example
An applicant has a 165 LSAT and a 3.70 CAS GPA. The school has LSAT numbers of 160, 163, and 166 at the 25th percentile, median, and 75th percentile, and GPA numbers of 3.45, 3.65, and 3.80. Tuition is 60,000 dollars a year, living costs are 25,000 dollars, and the school has typical generosity with merit aid.
The LSAT of 165 sits two thirds of the way from the median to the 75th percentile, which gives a standing of about 0.83. The GPA of 3.70 sits a third of the way, giving about 0.67. With a 60 percent LSAT weight, the index is about 0.77. That maps to roughly 46 percent of tuition, or 27,600 dollars a year, with a likely range of about 18,000 to 37,500 dollars.
Net tuition in year one is 32,400 dollars. With costs rising 3 percent a year and a fixed award, three years of tuition after the scholarship comes to about 102,700 dollars, and adding living costs brings the total to about 179,900 dollars.
Now compare three real offers. School A offers 30,000 dollars a year on 62,000 dollars of tuition but the award is conditional. School B offers half of a 48,000 dollar tuition with no conditions. School C offers 20,000 dollars on 80,000 dollars of tuition. With living costs included, the three year totals are about 188,200 dollars for A, 142,200 dollars for B, and 280,000 dollars for C. If School A's award ended after year one, its total would rise to about 248,200 dollars. B is the cheapest by about 46,000 dollars, even though A has the largest dollar award.
Frequently asked questions
How does the law school scholarship calculator work?
The estimator compares your LSAT and CAS GPA with a school's published 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile numbers. It turns each comparison into a standing from 0 at the 25th percentile to 1 at the 75th percentile, blends the two with more weight on the LSAT, and converts that blend into a share of tuition. The result is an estimated annual award with a likely range, followed by your estimated net cost.
Where do I find a school's LSAT and GPA medians and tuition?
Schools publish this in their ABA 509 required disclosures, which are available through the ABA Required Disclosures site, and on each law school's admissions page. Enter the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile LSAT and GPA for the most recent entering class, then the annual tuition. Use non-resident tuition for a public school if you are not a state resident.
How accurate is the scholarship estimate?
Treat it as a planning baseline, not a quote. Schools do not publish their award formulas, so the estimator uses a general model of how merit aid rises as your numbers climb above a school's medians. Real offers also depend on your essays, when you apply, residency, and how many applicants a school is competing for that year. The tool is most useful for comparing schools and judging whether an offer is strong.
Does the calculator include need-based aid?
No. It models merit aid, which is driven mainly by LSAT and GPA. A few schools award aid mostly on financial need, and those awards depend on a separate application and your family's finances. If you are applying to a school that is mainly need-based, set the merit generosity to lower and expect the real figure to differ.
What is a conditional scholarship and why does renewal risk matter?
A conditional scholarship continues only if you keep a minimum GPA or class rank. Because law school grades are curved, some students fall below the line and lose part of the award after the first year. The offer comparison tab shows a worst-case cost that assumes a conditional scholarship ends after year one, so you can see how much that risk could add.
What LSAT score earns a full-tuition scholarship?
There is no single score, because it depends on the school. Full-tuition awards generally go to applicants at or above a school's 75th percentile for both LSAT and GPA. A score that earns a full award at a mid-ranked school may earn little at a top school. Enter the school's numbers and your own to see how close you are to that range.
Can I negotiate a law school scholarship offer?
Often, yes. Some schools will reconsider an award if you show a stronger offer from a comparable school, and an early application with several offers in hand gives you more to work with. Use the offer comparison tab to see the net cost of each offer, then ask the school that you prefer whether it can close the gap in writing.
This tool is for educational purposes only. Always verify important results with a qualified professional.
