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The lsat demon scholarship estimator runs on official ABA Standard 509 filings and returns a per-school scholarship and cost estimate from your LSAT and GPA. LSAT Demon publishes its data source but not its formula, and no accuracy figure anywhere.
The LSAT Demon scholarship estimator returns a per-school table showing each school's medians, an estimated scholarship and an estimated cost against your LSAT and GPA. LSAT Demon does not state the unit of those figures in text. Verified July 2026.
The columns LSAT Demon's tool exposes are rank, school, medians, scholarship, estimated cost, data, and application tracker (https://lsatdemon.com/scholarships). Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon's own framing of the tool on its homepage is to see what LSAT and GPA you need to go to law school for free (https://lsatdemon.com/). Verified July 2026.
Whether the scholarship cell is a dollar figure, a dollar range or a percentage of tuition is not stated anywhere in LSAT Demon's text, because those values render in the browser rather than in the page copy. We are not going to assert a unit LSAT Demon has not published. Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon states that the scholarship estimator runs on ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports, which are official school filings rather than self-reported applicant data. That is a meaningful design choice, and lSAT Demon's own account of it is that its calculations are based on publicly reported data available in the ABA-mandated 509 reports for each law school. Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon's own account of it is that its calculations are based on publicly reported data available in the ABA-mandated 509 reports for each law school. Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon repeats the same framing in its written resources, telling readers they can locate 509 data on its scholarship estimator (https://lsatdemon.com/resources/demon-daily/take-the-money). Verified July 2026.
That base is a real strength and it separates LSAT Demon from calculators built on self-reported offers. A 509 report is a filing a school signs, so the grant medians and grant reach behind the estimate are official rather than crowd-sourced. Verified July 2026.
The LSAT Demon scholarship estimator takes two numbers, your LSAT score and your GPA, plus a school scope selector. No other applicant characteristic is a documented input, and the two fields on LSAT Demon's tool are labelled Your LSAT and Your GPA, with a school scope control defaulting to all schools. Verified July 2026.
The two fields on LSAT Demon's tool are labelled Your LSAT and Your GPA, with a school scope control defaulting to all schools (https://lsatdemon.com/scholarships). Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon has previously discussed an underrepresented minority filter in the estimator in its own published episode material, so that control has existed at some point. Whether it is still present is not confirmable from the tool's published text. Verified July 2026.
Nothing else is an input. Softs, work experience, application timing, residency and whether you already hold a competing offer are not entered, and those are exactly the variables that move a real scholarship negotiation. Verified July 2026.
No. LSAT Demon publishes no accuracy figure, no validation study, no margin of error and no disclaimer for the scholarship estimator anywhere on its own site, and we checked LSAT Demon's tool page, homepage, frequently asked questions and its written resource archive in July 2026 and found no such figure. Verified July 2026.
We checked LSAT Demon's tool page, homepage, frequently asked questions and its written resource archive in July 2026 and found no such figure (https://lsatdemon.com/scholarships). Verified July 2026.
Several third-party pages do publish accuracy claims about this tool, including a figure of within 10 to 15 percent of what applicants actually receive. Those pages cite no source and LSAT Demon does not corroborate them, so we are not repeating them as fact. Verified July 2026.
The absence is worth stating rather than glossing. A tool with an official data base and no published validation is a reasonable tool with an unmeasured error bar, which is a different thing from an inaccurate one. Verified July 2026.
Yes. The LSAT Demon scholarship estimator is free and sits alongside LSAT Demon's other free tools, with no paywall on the tool page, and lSAT Demon lists the scholarship estimator, score converter and school rankings among its free tools on its homepage. Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon lists the scholarship estimator, score converter and school rankings among its free tools on its homepage (https://lsatdemon.com/). Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon's free account text on the tool page adds three official LSATs with explanations and monthly live classes with no credit card required (https://lsatdemon.com/scholarships). Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon's paid plans are separate. Its published tiers are Essential at $99 a month, Live at $179 a month and Pro at $499 a month (https://lsatdemon.com/plans/lsat), and its homepage states that paid plans start at $99 a month (https://lsatdemon.com/). Verified July 2026.
The LSAT Demon scholarship estimator breaks at the step between a school's grant distribution and your individual letter, and no 509-based tool can avoid that break. It is a limit of the data, not a flaw in LSAT Demon. Verified July 2026.
A 509 report publishes grant medians and the share of students receiving a grant. No 509 report publishes grant size by LSAT band or by GPA band at any school (https://lsatdemon.com/resources/demon-daily/take-the-money), so the mapping from your numbers to your award is not in the source data. Verified July 2026.
LSAT Demon publishes no formula for that step. Its data source is disclosed and its model is not, which means the most consequential part of the estimate is the part you cannot inspect. Verified July 2026.
The second break is conditionality. Many merit awards carry a grade or class-rank condition, and a 509 grant median says nothing about how many of those awards survive the first year, so an estimate can be right in year one and wrong by graduation. Verified July 2026.
A 509 report describes a distribution, and your scholarship letter is one draw from it. The gap between those two things is where every scholarship estimate lives, at LSAT Demon and everywhere else, and grant reach matters more than grant size for a below-median applicant, and the two are different columns. Verified July 2026.
Two applicants with identical numbers routinely receive different offers, because timing, the strength of a competing offer, and how much of the class is already committed all move an award and none of them appear in a 509 filing. Verified July 2026.
Grant reach matters more than grant size for a below-median applicant, and the two are different columns. A school granting to nearly its whole class is running a broad discount; a large median reaching half the class is running a targeted one. Verified July 2026.
The honest use of any 509-based estimator, LSAT Demon's included, is to rank schools by how likely they are to spend on someone like you, then treat the dollar figure as a hypothesis you test by applying. Verified July 2026.
From July 1, 2026 federal borrowing for professional students is capped, which changes what a scholarship estimate is for. A gap that used to be borrowable is now a gap you must fund another way, and grad PLUS, which previously covered cost of attendance without a fixed ceiling. Verified July 2026.
The Reimagining and Improving Student Education final rule took effect July 1, 2026 and caps professional-degree borrowing at $50,000 a year and $200,000 in aggregate, with a $257,500 lifetime limit across federal student loans excluding Parent PLUS (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans). Verified July 2026.
Grad PLUS, which previously covered cost of attendance without a fixed ceiling, is phased out for new borrowers from that same date (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans). Verified July 2026.
AccessLex notes the $50,000 annual limit is particularly restrictive for JD programs because average private law school tuition already exceeds $50,000 annually and three-quarters of law students borrow (https://www.accesslex.org/blog/how-obbbas-student-loan-caps-could-reshape-law-school-affordability-and-access). Verified July 2026.
The practical consequence for any scholarship estimator is that the number to watch is no longer the award. It is the residual between cost of attendance and the sum of your award plus the $50,000 ceiling in Harvard's summary, because that residual is what you now have to find. Verified July 2026.
Lovare Institut builds the Lovare Diagnostic, an admissions and cost tool, which competes directly with LSAT Demon. We are telling you that before the comparison rather than after it, because a review that hides its own interest is worth nothing. Verified July 2026.
The practical effect on this page is that we have described LSAT Demon's methodology from LSAT Demon's own published material and quoted it, rather than characterising it in our words.
Where we say LSAT Demon does not publish something, that is a statement about what we could find on its own site in July 2026, and it is checkable. Where we prefer our own approach we say why, in terms you can test against both tools.
The Lovare Diagnostic and the LSAT Demon scholarship estimator start from the same official 509 data and stop at different places. LSAT Demon estimates an award; the Lovare Diagnostic prices the residual, and what the Lovare Diagnostic adds is the cap arithmetic. Verified July 2026.
QuestionLSAT Demon scholarship estimatorLovare DiagnosticUnderlying dataABA Standard 509 reportsABA Standard 509 reportsEstimated award figureYes, unit not published in textNo, by designPublished model or formulaNot publishedNo model, published quartiles and grant reachPublished accuracy figureNoneNone claimedFederal cap gap after July 2026Not addressedYesPriceFreeFree
The Lovare Diagnostic publishes no single estimated award, deliberately, because the step from a 509 grant distribution to an individual letter is not in the data and we would rather show you the distribution than a number derived from an unpublished model. Verified July 2026.
What the Lovare Diagnostic adds is the cap arithmetic. It carries each school's published cost of attendance against the $50,000 annual federal ceiling and shows the gap you would have to close from savings, family or private credit (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans). Verified July 2026.
Use LSAT Demon's estimator to shortlist the schools most likely to spend on your numbers, because its 509 base is sound and it is free. Then price the shortlist against the cap, because the award is only half of the arithmetic that decides where you go. Verified July 2026.
Every figure on this LSAT Demon scholarship estimator page carries a Verified July 2026 stamp because a dated stamp is the only honest way to publish a number that moves. Each source below was retrieved in July 2026 and is linked in full rather than named vaguely, so nothing here is modelled, averaged or inferred.
What it supportsSourceEstimator columns, inputs, free-account termshttps://lsatdemon.com/scholarshipsLSAT Demon free tools and starting pricehttps://lsatdemon.com/LSAT Demon plan tiershttps://lsatdemon.com/plans/lsatLSAT Demon on locating 509 datahttps://lsatdemon.com/resources/demon-daily/take-the-moneyFederal cap figures and Grad PLUS phase-outhttps://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loansAccessLex on the $50,000 limit against law school tuitionhttps://www.accesslex.org/blog/how-obbbas-student-loan-caps-could-reshape-law-school-affordability-and-access
ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports, which are official school filings rather than self-reported offers. LSAT Demon states this itself and repeats it in its written resources. Verified July 2026.
Unmeasured. LSAT Demon publishes no accuracy figure, validation study or margin of error for the tool.
Third-party accuracy claims about it cite no source and LSAT Demon does not corroborate them. Verified July 2026.
Yes, and it needs no paid plan. LSAT Demon's paid tiers are separate at Essential $99 a month, Live $179 a month and Pro $499 a month. Verified July 2026.
Because no ABA 509 report publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band at any school. The step from a school's grant distribution to your individual letter is not in the source data. Verified July 2026.
Yes. From July 1, 2026 professional-degree borrowing is capped at $50,000 a year and $200,000 aggregate per Harvard's summary and AccessLex, so the number that matters is the residual between cost and your award plus $50,000. Verified July 2026.
A scholarship estimate is a hypothesis about a distribution. What decides your choice is the residual you would have to fund after the award and the federal cap. The Lovare Diagnostic takes about fifteen minutes and returns your own numbers against published school data rather than a single probability, and it is free.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026