How much does it cost to take the LSAT and apply to law school?
How much does the LSAT cost? Every LSAC fee, in one place
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The registration fee is the number people quote, and it is the smallest part of what applying actually costs. The total is driven by a per-school fee that most people do not budget for until they are already choosing schools.
The fees
That $45 per report is where the arithmetic turns. Applying to ten schools is $450 in reports on top of the $219 subscription, before a single school's own application fee. A realistic first-cycle total for a ten-school list is well over a thousand dollars.
The fees that catch people out
Read the date-change tier again, because it is the single most expensive avoidable mistake on this page. Once you are eight days past the registration deadline, moving your test costs as much as the test did. If you are genuinely unsure whether you will be ready, the decision to make early is which date to register for — not whether to move it later.
Fee waivers
Apply for the waiver before you register for anything. It is a real application with a review period, and the benefit is worth several hundred dollars — enough that being turned down is still worth the hour it takes to be told so.
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