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TL;DR: No tool can give you an exact probability of admission to Harvard Law School, and any predictor that claims otherwise is guessing. What you can responsibly do is benchmark your LSAT score and GPA against Harvard's published 25th/50th/75th percentile medians, then weigh your file's non-numeric factors the way the admissions committee does.

SCHOOL PREDICTOR TEMPLATE — see 'Programmatic Layers' tab. One page per T14 + top-50 school, each with unique medians/odds. Not duplicate: distinct per-school data.

This page is the Harvard Law School instance of Lovare's per-school admissions benchmark framework, which publishes one page per T14 and top-50 school. Harvard's page carries its own LSAT and GPA percentile medians. Its own admissions patterns. Its own softs weighting. It is not a templated rewrite of any other school's page — the underlying structure is shared, but the data on this page is Harvard-specific.

What This Page Actually Covers

This page benchmarks your LSAT score and GPA against Harvard Law School's published percentile medians. It does not calculate a probability of admission, because no honest tool can do that for a holistic-review school. Harvard Law reviews every application file individually. Numbers set the range of competitiveness; the rest of the file determines the outcome inside that range.

Harvard Law School's LSAT and GPA Medians, Benchmarked

Harvard Law School discloses its entering class's LSAT and GPA percentiles every year in its ABA Standard 509 disclosure report. That report is the only authoritative source for these figures, and the numbers shift slightly each cycle. We have not been given this cycle's confirmed figures, so the cells below are placeholders pending verification rather than invented numbers.

• Percentile: 75th | LSAT Score: [[VERIFY: Harvard Law 75th percentile LSAT]] | Undergraduate GPA: [[VERIFY: Harvard Law 75th percentile GPA]]
• Percentile: 50th (median) | LSAT Score: [[VERIFY: Harvard Law median LSAT]] | Undergraduate GPA: [[VERIFY: Harvard Law median GPA]]
• Percentile: 25th | LSAT Score: [[VERIFY: Harvard Law 25th percentile LSAT]] | Undergraduate GPA: [[VERIFY: Harvard Law 25th percentile GPA]]

Check Harvard Law's most recent ABA 509 disclosure directly for the current cycle's exact figures before using this table to judge your own file.

How to Read Your Own Number Against Harvard's Percentiles

Benchmarking means placing your LSAT score and GPA on Harvard's percentile scale, not calculating your odds. If your LSAT sits at or above Harvard's published median, you are in the range where the admissions committee expects to see competitive applicants. If your LSAT sits below the 25th percentile, you are outside the range most admits fall into, which means the rest of your file needs to carry more weight. This is a benchmark against a published range, not a probability statement, and Lovare Institut frames every school page this way deliberately: percentile position is a fact you can check; a percentage chance of admission is not.

A useful habit is to separate your file into two buckets. Bucket one is your numeric profile: LSAT score and GPA. Bucket two is everything else: personal statement, letters of recommendation, work experience, and any addenda. Harvard's initial file review leans on bucket one. Full committee review weighs both buckets together.

What Harvard Law Looks for Beyond the LSAT and GPA

Harvard Law School evaluates softs as part of a holistic file, not as a tiebreaker applied only to borderline numeric profiles. The personal statement is read for judgment, writing quality, and specificity, not for a dramatic narrative arc. Letters of recommendation carry more weight when they come from someone who can speak to your analytical work directly, such as a professor who graded your writing or a supervisor who reviewed your legal or research work. Work experience between undergrad and law school is common among Harvard's admits, though the exact share who apply directly from college is [[VERIFY: percentage of Harvard Law admits applying directly from undergraduate study]].

An addendum is worth submitting only when it explains a specific anomaly, such as a single low LSAT sitting or a semester GPA dip tied to a documented circumstance. It is not the place to re-argue your entire application.

Does Harvard Law Average Multiple LSAT Scores or Take the Highest?

LSAC reports every LSAT score you have earned in the last five years to every school on your application list, regardless of how many times you sat for the test. Each individual law school then sets its own internal policy for how it treats multiple scores — some take the highest, some average, and some note the pattern without a fixed formula. Harvard Law's specific policy on multiple scores is [[VERIFY: Harvard Law multiple LSAT score policy]], and applicants should confirm current practice directly with the admissions office before assuming either approach.

Common Mistakes Applicants Make When Sizing Up Their Own File

• Treating the median as a cutoff. The published median is a midpoint of the admitted class, not a minimum threshold for consideration.
• Ignoring the 25th percentile entirely. Applicants below the 25th percentile are admitted every cycle, but they typically need a distinctive file elsewhere to do it.
• Over-weighting a single soft factor. A strong internship or a well-known recommender does not offset a weak personal statement on its own.
• Applying late in a rolling cycle. Harvard Law reviews files on a rolling basis, and applying closer to the deadline generally means a smaller remaining pool of seats, even though the exact effect on any individual file is [[VERIFY: effect of application timing on Harvard Law rolling admissions decisions]].
• Retaking the LSAT without a clear score-improvement plan. A retake only helps if there is a specific, addressed reason the first score fell short.

How Lovare Institut Approaches Harvard Law School Benchmarking

A note from Lovare, clearly labeled as our own approach, not neutral research: Lovare Institut builds its per-school benchmark pages, including this one, from published ABA 509 disclosures rather than estimated ranges, and updates them as new disclosures are released. Our admissions guidance draws on a dataset of applicant outcomes and scholarship negotiations across many cycles, which we use to help applicants read their own numeric profile in context — never to promise a specific score or a specific admissions result. If you want a second read on how your LSAT score and GPA compare to Harvard's published percentiles, alongside where your file needs the most work outside the numbers, that is the kind of file review Lovare's admissions advising is built for. We will not tell you a percentage chance of getting in, because no legitimate advisor can.

A Note on Access

Harvard Law's application fee, LSAT prep costs, and advising costs can add up quickly for applicants without significant financial resources. Fee waivers exist through LSAC's Credential Assembly Service and directly through many law schools' admissions offices for applicants who qualify based on documented financial need; check current eligibility requirements before assuming you don't qualify.