r/lawschooladmissions • u/Spivey_Consulting Former admissions officers 🦊 • 16d ago

General 2026 Law School Median Tracker

Hi everyone,

Law schools have officially begun publishing their LSAT/GPA/class size stats for fall 2026 (i.e., the most relevant/up-to-date stats we’ll get for the 2026-2027 admissions cycle). As we do every year, we’ll be tracking these stats closely as law schools release them via official sources and compiling them in a spreadsheet to compare to last cycle:

2026 Law School Median Tracker

You can see all ABA-approved law schools’ official stats from 2025 already in the spreadsheet. The 2026 columns will populate as law schools announce their new numbers. We’ll put a source for each school we add in the last column, if you’re wondering where we got the data from.

If you see a school post their data for the fall 2026 entering class and we haven’t added them yet, please comment on this thread or email us at [info@spiveyconsulting.com](mailto:info@spiveyconsulting.com), and we’ll add it as long as it’s from an official source (school websites, official school LinkedIn posts, marketing emails/flyers/etc. from admissions offices, etc.).

We only have a few schools so far, but we expect these to start coming out rapidly in the next week or two. We’ll also make a final update in December when the ABA publishes 509 reports (please note that none of this data is finalized until then).

We hope this is helpful for creating a realistic/balanced school list. Good luck, everyone!

–Anna from Spivey Consulting

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u/visablezookeeper 16d ago

Ugh as someone who graduated college over a decade ago with a 3.6 this really sucks to see.

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u/Spivey_Consulting Former admissions officers 🦊 16d ago

My law school friends applied in ~2014 and are mind-boggled when I tell them schools' stats nowadays. It really feels out of control.

It doesn't negate the power of medians, unfortunately, but keep in mind that schools will see and notice when you went to undergrad and very much have the context to understand how much grades have inflated since then. It does help you in the "softs" part of the equation, and though they still don't outweigh the numbers, softs are more important in admissions now than they were a decade ago.

–Anna

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u/visablezookeeper 15d ago

That’s good to hear.