Compare GRE Scores to LSAT Scores by Percentile
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Because law schools have widely accepted and reported applicant LSAT scores for decades, there is abundant data on an applicant's likelihood of admission to each school based on his or her LSAT score. Since the GRE has only recently become accepted and fewer applicants submit GRE scores, there is little data available correlating GRE scores with law school acceptance.As a rule of thumb, law schools tend to compare GRE scores to LSAT scores based on percentile. If your GRE score is in the 90th percentile, consider it roughly equivalent to a 90th-percentile LSAT score, generally around 165. ETS provides a tool to convert GRE scores into equivalent LSAT scores. However, law schools may differ from one another in how they look at GRE scores. The GRE has three different scored sections: analytical writing, verbal reasoning and quantitative reasoning. Some law schools may consider some of these sections more important than others, while other schools may focus on the overall score.For example, one school may consider writing more relevant to law school than math, while another school may consider both relevant to the modern practice of law.In contrast, law schools look only at overall scores on the LSAT.