Throughout many of our articles and guides you find here at LSATTips, we continue to emphasize the importance of your LSAT and GPA. For the most part, the LSAT and GPA combined, make up the majority of weight in terms of your application package and probability of admissions into any given law school. In Brad’s article, Brad expands on how both your LSAT and GPA score combine to affect your law school application package.

For a more in-depth understanding of the law school admissions process and what admissions officers look at in your application, take a look at former University of Chicago Law’s Dean of Admissions Anna Ivey’s book.

Applying and attending law school is a major investment that will likely require you 3+ years and over $150,000 in tuition. Despite wide range in school rankings and disparaging first-year associate salaries for graduates of all 200 ABA (American Bar Association), the time and money invested in any accredited law school is cause for you to spend your due diligence in researching the right law schools.

Here is a checklist of items to research and follow-up as you prepare for the LSAT and law school applications:

So what are your chances of getting into Law School X?

While a number of soft or hard factors factor into your actual individual odds of getting into a particular law school, the most accurate and standard way to figuring out your odds is by utilizing a law school calculator. Law School Calculators take into account your LSAT and GPA scores and compare them with the LSAT and GPA scores of admitted students to then determine your odds of getting in.