Do Law Schools Average LSAT Scores?:

[I]n June of 2006, the ABA replaced their longstanding requirement that schools report their students’ average scores with a new requirement that schools report only their students’ highest scores. Mind you, strictly speaking, this change had nothing to do with law school admissions, but rather with the particular data that law schools reported to the ABA. Law schools were still free to consider your average or highest LSAT for admissions.

But the all-important US News law school rankings treat the LSAT scores of admitted students as one of the most important factors in rankings. In fact, US News simply uses the ABA data when calculating their rankings. …

[S]oon after the ABA decision, rumors circulated that schools would now rely only on your highest LSAT score in admissions. The problem is that there isn’t a great deal of clarity over which schools average and which schools don’t.

So, we … thought that we’d help out by researching which law schools average and which ones don’t. We … asked the top 20 law schools and threw in a couple others for good measure. We got information by checking schools’ websites and (when possible) speaking with their representatives. …

Schools that claim to consider the highest score:
Yale
Chicago
Northwestern
Cornell
UCLA
Pepperdine
Southwestern

Schools that claim to average:
NYU
UC-Berkeley
Duke
Virginia
Georgetown
Loyola-L.A.

Schools that won’t commit either way:
Harvard
Stanford
Columbia
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Texas
USC