A 155 lands in the middle of the scale, which is also the steepest part of it. Points are cheaper here than anywhere else on the test.
You are standing on the softest part of the curve. One scaled point is worth 3.1 percentile points here — several times what the same point buys someone in the 170s — because this is where everybody else is bunched up.
Middling — which, on this test, is the most improvable place to be. A point is worth 3.1 percentile points here.
You are past the crowd but not clear of it. About 36.6% of test takers are still at or above a 155, and in absolute numbers that is a lot of people applying to the same places.
The curve is steepest through the 140s and 150s and nearly flat above 172, which is why the same five points mean completely different things to different people. For you they are worth 17 percentile points.
The question is not whether you could score higher. It is whether the next point is worth what it costs, and at a 155 that point is worth 3.1 percentile points.
Think in fives rather than ones, because that is how retakes actually land. A 160 would put you 17 percentile points higher. Very little else in an application moves that far.
People stuck around 155 tend to study broadly when the problem is narrow. Two or three question types are doing most of the damage, and finding them is worth more than another prep book.
Build it in this sequence: get the answers right without a timer, then get them right inside the section limit, then sit whole tests for stamina. Reversing that just teaches you to make the same mistakes faster.
In practice that means three things: a question-type error log so you know where the points go, daily logical reasoning because it is the biggest slice of the test, and a three-month plan so the work has an end date.
The list that matters is the one built off medians. A 155 clears 0 of the schools we track outright and matches 2 more.
Reach, Target and Likely are positions, not predictions. A median is the midpoint of an admitted class, which means half of everyone who got in scored below it. Schools in your Reach column admit people like you every year; the rest of the application just has to do more of the work.
Before deciding how hard to push, go and see what the push buys. Enter a 155 and your GPA into the law school admissions calculator, then change the score to 160 and compare the two school lists side by side.
Compare 155 and 160The test reports a single figure and hides the uncertainty behind it. For a 155, that uncertainty spans 152 to 158.
Because the curve is so steep here, that range is worth 21.6 percentile points. Noise alone can move you further than a casual month of studying would.
Almost certainly. People who retake from around a 155 after a real preparation cycle usually land somewhere near 160, and that is 17 percentile points of movement.
The reason is structural rather than motivational: this part of the curve is crowded, so every extra correct answer moves you past more people than it would higher up. Moving from 150 to 160 walks through what that takes in practice.
Retake. That is the honest recommendation from this part of the scale, and a 160 is an ordinary outcome of one focused cycle rather than an ambitious one.
Hofstra (Deane), Suffolk report medians within two points of 155. Medians move year to year, so confirm against each school's current ABA 509 report.
Roughly 36.6% of test takers reach 155 or higher, which places the score at about the 63th percentile.
On the median table a 155 reads as Likely at 0 schools and Target at 2, so yes for a real list of programmes.
Your score band is 152-158, a spread of 21.6 percentile points, and schools take your highest score. That combination usually favours retaking.