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Many ABA-approved law schools accept the GRE instead of the LSAT, including several top-14 programs. As of the current cycle, about 128 U.S. law schools, including every T14 school, take a GRE score. The table below ranks them and lists each school's GRE and GPA medians so you can gauge where you stand.
By Ali Unar, JD candidate at Georgetown Law and founder of Lovare Institut. Last updated August 2026. Figures on this page were verified in August 2026 or point readers to the current source.
A large and expanding group of ABA-approved law schools now accept a valid GRE General Test score in place of the LSAT, and the group includes highly ranked national programs as well as regional schools. Every ABA school still accepts the LSAT, so the GRE simply widens your options rather than replacing the LSAT everywhere. The strongest single choice for most applicants is the highest-ranked GRE-accepting school where your GRE percentile lands at or above the median. about 128 U.S. law schools, including every T14 school.
The table ranks GRE-accepting law schools and pairs each with the two numbers that drive admission, its median GRE and median GPA. Read your own percentiles against these figures to sort schools into reach, target, and likely.
The current ranking is best read directly from the source. See the U.S. News Best Law Schools list for the up-to-date order, and each school's ABA Standard 509 report for its median LSAT, GPA, and acceptance rate.
Schools are included only if they publicly state they accept the GRE for JD admission, drawn from the roster ETS maintains and confirmed on each school's own admissions page. Rankings come from U.S. News, and the GRE and GPA medians come from each school's reported class data. Because schools opt in and update their policies between cycles, treat every figure here as current only once you have checked the school's page. about 128 U.S. law schools, including every T14 school.
Convert your GRE Verbal and Quant scores to percentiles, then compare them to each school's medians rather than to a national average. A school where your percentiles sit above the median is a likely admit even if its rank looks daunting. Balance your list with a few reaches, several targets, and at least two likely schools, and confirm each still accepts the GRE for your cycle. your target schools' published 25th-50th-75th percentile figures.
GRE-accepting law schools include several top-14 programs plus a wide band of national and regional schools, and the roster grows most cycles as new schools opt in. Because acceptance is added school by school, verify the current list on ETS's page and confirm on each school's admissions site. about 128 U.S. law schools, including every T14 school.
Yes. Submitting a GRE score is the most common way to enroll at an ABA-approved law school without the LSAT, and it now reaches many well-ranked programs. A smaller number of schools also accept JD-Next or grant waivers, but a GRE score gives you the widest no-LSAT reach. about 128 U.S. law schools, including every T14 school.
Not by default. The GRE swaps the LSAT's formal logic for quantitative math and vocabulary, so a math-strong applicant may find it easier while a strong reader may not. The fairer test is to compare your percentile on each, since law schools read percentiles rather than raw scores. the LSAC percentile tables (for example a 150 is about the 37th percentile, 160 the 71st, 165 the 85th, and 170 the 94th).
Verified August 2026.
August 21, 2026
August 21, 2026