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The LSAT score for T14 admission, from each school's own 509 report: medians run from 171 to 174 and the lowest published 25th percentile in the group is 166. No school publishes a minimum accepted score, so any page giving you one is reading a number that does not exist.
T14 is a convention rather than a published ranking, and we are not sourcing one. What follows is the published LSAT band for each of the fourteen schools the term conventionally names, taken from their own ABA 509 filings for the 2025 reporting year and last checked on July 26, 2026.
Read the 25th percentile column first. The median tells you where the middle of the class landed; the 25th tells you what the school actually accepted, which is the number a below-median candidate is really asking about.
SchoolLSAT 25thLSAT medianLSAT 75thAcceptance rate509 yearYale1711741774.1%2025Harvard1711741769.2%2025Chicago1711741769.7%2025Stanford1711731766.1%2025Columbia16917317511.8%2025Penn Carey1671731748.1%2025UVA16817317510.2%2025Northwestern16717317512.3%2025Cornell16817317518.2%2025NYU16917217413.4%2025Michigan1681711738.6%2025Duke16917117212.9%2025Georgetown16617117315.8%2025Berkeley16717017214.8%2025
The lowest published 25th percentile across these fourteen is 166. That is not the lowest score any of them accepted, and the distinction matters: a 25th percentile means a quarter of the admitted class scored at or below it, so admits exist beneath it that the 509 does not show.
What no school publishes, and therefore what nobody can honestly tell you, is the actual minimum score admitted. The 509 reports quartiles, not floors. Any page giving you a lowest accepted LSAT is reading a number that does not exist.
Medians across the fourteen run from 170 to 174, a spread of 4 points, which is narrower than most applicants assume and is why GPA and the rest of the file decide so many of these outcomes.
A 165 is below the published 25th percentile at all fourteen. The lowest 25th percentile in this group is 166, so a 165 sits outside the band every one of them reports.
Below-median admits are real and they are not random. They cluster where the rest of the file is doing unusual work: a very high GPA against a lower score, a genuinely distinctive professional record, or a target the school is actively recruiting for.
The honest framing is that a 165 makes a T14 admission an exception rather than a plan. If the T14 is the goal and the score is 165, the highest-value move is another sitting rather than a wider application list.
Where a 165 sitsCount of the fourteenAt or above the median0Between the 25th percentile and the median0Below the published 25th percentile14
Two things in the verified data actually distinguish these schools for a below-median candidate, and neither is prestige. The first is acceptance rate, which ranges widely across the fourteen. The second is how much grant money each spreads and to how many students.
Cornell reports a $30,000 median grant reaching 91 percent of students and Duke reports $35,000 reaching 94 percent, both from their own 509 filings. Harvard reports $27,510 reaching 38 percent. Those are different institutions to apply to with the same score.
A candidate below the median at several of these should weight the schools that spread money widely, because a below-median admit at a school granting to 38 percent of its class is a very different financial outcome from the same admit where 94 percent receive something.
SchoolAcceptance rateMedian grantShare receiving a grantYale4.1%$34,74763%Harvard9.2%$27,51038%Chicago9.7%$15,00078%Stanford6.1%$52,79750%Columbia11.8%$32,00054%Penn Carey8.1%$42,24659%UVA10.2%$35,00066%Northwestern12.3%$40,00076%Cornell18.2%$30,00091%NYU13.4%$20,00066%Michigan8.6%$32,00091%Duke12.9%$35,00094%Georgetown15.8%$35,00061%Berkeley14.8%$31,15886%
WashU is not conventionally counted in the T14 and publishes the highest LSAT median in our entire verified set at 175, against a 165 twenty-fifth percentile, alongside a $48,000 median grant reaching 94 percent of students, all from its own 509 filing.
We mention it because a page about T14 scores that leaves it out is giving you an incomplete picture of where high scores are being recruited. The ten-point spread between its 25th and its median is the widest in our data.
None of that makes it a T14 school, which is a convention about a list. It does make it a school worth a line on a page like this.
Every school figure on this page comes from that school's own ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report for the 2025 reporting year, collected into our verified data sheet and last checked on July 26, 2026. Each school's 509 URL is recorded against its row in that sheet.
That sheet covers 57 law schools with published LSAT bands, spanning medians from 147 to 175. It is not all 196 ABA-approved schools, and this page does not pretend otherwise. If a school you care about is missing here, it means we have not verified it yet rather than that it does not qualify.
We do not name a school on a score page unless we hold its verified 509 numbers. That rule costs us some pages and it is the reason the tables here are shorter than the ones you will find elsewhere.
Every LSAC figure on this page was taken from LSAC's own pages and last checked on July 26, 2026. Prices, dates and policies move without notice, so the source link sits next to each number rather than in a bibliography at the bottom.
Where LSAC has not published something, this page says so in those words rather than filling the hole with a plausible number. That is the difference between a gap and a guess, and only one of them is safe to plan around.
It is possible and it is an exception. A 165 sits below the published 25th percentile at all fourteen, the lowest of which is 166, so admission depends on the rest of the file doing unusual work.
Nobody knows, because no school publishes it. The lowest published 25th percentile is 166, which means a quarter of that school's admitted class scored at or below it, not that it is a floor.
Published medians across the fourteen run from 170 to 174. At or above the median at your target schools is the position that makes admission a plan rather than a hope.
No. It is a convention naming fourteen schools, not a published list from any authority, and this page does not cite a ranking. The LSAT numbers here come from each school's own ABA 509 report.
It can, and the 509 reports do not tell you how often. Both quartile sets are published separately, and no school publishes the joint distribution, so the trade-off cannot be quantified from public data.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026