Concord, the nation's premier online law school, combines a top quality legal education with the convenience and power of the Internet.

The Boston College Law School Locator lists the 25th to 75th percentile LSAT scores and GPA ranges of first year classes at accredited law schools, entering in the fall of 2005. This means that half of a law school's entering class scored in the range indicated.
The Locator can help you identify schools where your scores and grades are most competitive for admission and help you gauge your chance of admission at a particular school. The chart is useful in evaluating law school choices but cannot determine where you should or should not apply.

For over twenty years William Howard Taft University has offered distance learning graduate degree programs to students throughout the world. Presently the University offers nationally accredited programs in business, education and law.

Abraham Lincoln Online Law School combines flexibility of distance learning with traditional legal education to create a unique online learning experience.

The Law School Admission Test (LSAT) is a half-day standardized test required for admission to all ABA-approved law schools, most Canadian law schools, and many non-ABA-approved law schools. It provides a standard measure of acquired reading and verbal reasoning skills that law schools can use as one of several factors in assessing applicants. The test is administered four times a year at hundreds of locations around the world.

Written by Ken DeLeon, former LSAT instructor for the Princeton Review and U.C. Berkeley Law School (Boalt Hall) graduate.
Your LSAT score and GPA are by far the two most important components that affect your chances of admission to law schools. Because your score on a half-day standardized test is weighted equally or more heavily than your four or five years of college studies, it is imperative that you effectively study for and master the LSAT.
A stellar LSAT score can overcome an otherwise mediocre application. As a personal example, my LSAT score of a 173 (99.4%) overshadowed my 3.4 GPA and I gained admission to every top law school to which I applied.

With nearly 70 years experience, we've designed our programs with you in mind. We know you have a busy life and prepping for a high-stakes test like the LSAT is stressful enough. With flexible schedules, free make-up sessions, convenient locations, and helpful teachers and staff to guide you, the Kaplan LSAT program is a choice you can be confident in.

The total cost of a JD degree can easily top $150,000 at the most expensive schools, once you factor in living expenses. (And that's not counting lost income, since you won't be working full-time while you're in school.) Private law schools are listed on this page by tuition and fees for the 2005-2006 academic year, with the most expensive on top.

Public institutions are on this page, sorted by in-state tuition so you can easily see what you might save by sticking close to home.

Public institutions are on this page, sorted by in-state tuition so you can easily see what you might save by sticking close to home.

By Mary P. Gallagher
Two-thirds of law students have taken on "mortgage-sized educational debt burdens" that make public-interest or government careers cost-prohibitive, a recent survey finds. The study, by the National Association for Law Placement and groups promoting public service and public-interest law, finds that 94 percent of law graduates responding borrowed to pay for their legal education. The median debt was $84,400, excluding undergraduate loans, and their average debt was even higher. Nearly three-quarters of the respondents owed at least $45,000, about half owed more than $75,000 and one-fifth topped $105,000.

Like other graduate-school education, the cost of a legal education is substantial. The amount varies from school to school, and whether the law school is a public or private institution. Before embarking on a legal education, you should carefully plan how you will pay for it.

Considering law school but concerned about paying for it? This site can be a starting point for your further research into identifying primary sources of aid, learning the basic facts about eligibility, and finding out where to get more information.

Money for law school is available, in the form of scholarships, grants, work-study, and loans. Law students finance most of their education through loans, either from the federal government or private sources—often both. The amount of aid you receive and the form it takes is largely determined by the law schools; therefore, the law schools to which you are applying should be your primary source of information. This site can give you answers to some basic questions you may be asking yourself: What does the process of securing financial aid involve? How is eligibility for financial aid determined? What goes into a financial aid package? What can I do ahead of time to improve my chances of getting financial aid?

Changes in financial aid rules and regulations are ongoing. Law school policies vary. Therefore, it is your responsibility to stay current and to educate yourself about financial aid in much the same way that you research law schools when deciding where to apply.

Compared to what you're going to need, you may be surprised at how little you get: Law schools assume that their students can afford to borrow to pay the bills because they'll easily make enough after graduation to manage the loan payments. However, students whose LSAT scores and undergraduate grades put them near the top of a law school's applicant pool may find a generous merit award on the table.

Compared to what you're going to need, you may be surprised at how little you get: Law schools assume that their students can afford to borrow to pay the bills because they'll easily make enough after graduation to manage the loan payments. However, students whose LSAT scores and undergraduate grades put them near the top of a law school's applicant pool may find a generous merit award on the table.

By Thomas E. Brennan, Former President, Thomas M. Cooley Law School and Don LeDuc, President and Dean, Thomas M. Cooley Law School
Last year, US News and World Report arbitrarily and without notice introduced a new piece of data into its rankings, drawing the ire of the law school deans. The indignation was not just that another unilateral change occurred in the US News ranking system, but also that the change created data that was inaccurate and invalid. We won’t dwell on that, but the reader can find the issue discussed in the April 7, 2005 edition of The Wall Street Journal Online under Carl Bialik’s byline.

Top-Law-Schools.com, a free and valuable resource to assist students applying to law schools. Top-Law-Schools.com offers 2007 law school rankings, exclusive law school profiles, advice for writing law school personal statements, and a law school forum. Furthermore, Top-Law-Schools.com has several articles offering more detailed law school rankings and discussions.

The Consus Group (TCG) ranks the top 100 law school programs in the U.S. The scores are based on several factors: other published rankings, selectivity, salary, placement and yield. TCG also offer two other law school program rankings based solely on Published Rankings and Selectivity Rankings.

By Brian Leiter, Hines H. Baker & Thelma Kelley Baker Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law, contains two new quality rankings (of law faculty and of law students), as well as all of the rankings formerly maintained on the University of Texas School of Law site. This site has been expanded and completely redesigned to provide the premier site of law school rankings for prospective, current, and former law students; law school faculty and administrators; and practicing lawyers in law firms, government, and public interest organizations.

Have you ever considered becoming a lawyer? While you might think that lawyers spend all their time in the courtroom, many lawyers spend little, if any, time in the courtroom during their careers. Indeed, law practice is incredibly diverse, from daily courtroom drama to contract negotiations, overseeing real estate transactions, drafting wills, negotiating settlements, and representing clients on a variety of public-interest issues. Still others in the profession become prominent business leaders, political leaders, policy analysts, judges or law school professors.