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The Latest Data on the Current Admission Cycle

Browse through the most complete data on the 2025-2026 admission cycle. Updated daily, LSAC’s data library gives you a complete snapshot of the latest trends in applicant and application volumes as well as LSAT test taker numbers.

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Current Volume Summaries

View the latest volume summaries, including information on U.S. and Canadian applicants and applications broken down by region, ethnicity, LSAT scores.

LSAT Percentiles

Percentiles by LSAT score for 2022-2025 testing years.

Keeping Up to Data, a Podcast by LSAC

This podcast helps listeners get a quick pulse on how the law school admission cycle and pipeline are trending, and what’s coming down the pike.

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2025 Prelaw Advisor Landscape Study

Prelaw advisors at undergraduate institutions serve a vital role in higher education and the legal profession, guiding people through one of the most consequential decisions of their lives: whether to pursue a law degree. Their advisees come to them with questions about where to apply, how to present themselves as applicants, and where to attend. Advisors perform this work under significant institutional constraints, such as a lack of time, funding, or other support.

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Summary of 2021-2025 LSAT Correlation Study Results

As predictive validity is an important component in the overall evaluation of test validity, LSAC has carried out predictive validity studies, also called LSAT Correlation Studies, since the test was first administered.

LSAC’s Knowledge Report: The 2024-25 Law School Applicant Profile

This report focuses on 2024-25 applicants, exploring who applied to law school, when applicants first thought about law school, why they applied, and more.

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Research Insights

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Examining LSAC and LSSSE Data on Students With Disabilities

By Jak Petzold and Deb Langer

Taken together, data from LSAC and LSSSE now offer a fuller understanding of the structural obstacles that students with disabilities meet on their path to and through law school.

Who Do You Turn to for Help? It Depends 

By Elizabeth Bodamer

Who people turn to for advice on the journey to law school isn't as simple as their prelaw advisors or their parents. It depends.

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The Hook: Time Spent Fine-Tuning the Personal Statement

By Elizabeth Bodamer

LSAC’s new Applied Research report shows that over half of applicant respondents spent more than 20 hours working on their personal statements.

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