I kept hearing from pre-law students who already run their whole application in Notion. They had their schools in one place, their essays in another, their deadlines in their phone, and none of it talked to each other. So I took my law school ranking spreadsheet and rebuilt it in Notion.
You fill in one profile page with your LSAT, GPA, where you want to practice, your budget, and how much seven different things matter to you on a scale of 0 to 10. Every school you add gets its own page, and the template does the math on each one. Your rankings update the second you change anything, including your priorities.
This matters more this cycle than it used to. If you start law school after July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans are gone for new borrowers, and federal loans cap at $50,000 a year and $200,000 total. Anything a school costs above that comes from scholarships, savings or private loans. The template splits your federal and private borrowing for every school, so you see the gap before you apply.
What it figures out for each school
Your admit band (Likely, Target, Reach or Far Reach), based on where your LSAT and GPA fall against the school's percentiles
Your scholarship leverage, so you know where asking for more money makes sense
The true 3-year cost, with tuition increases and conditional scholarship risk built in
Federal loans vs. private loans, under the 2026 borrowing limits
What you'd owe when repayment starts and a monthly payment estimate
The scholarship you'd need each year to graduate with no loans
Each school's biggest strength and biggest gap
One overall score from 0 to 100 and a tier, weighted by your own priorities
What's inside
A dashboard with tabs for your rankings, what's due, a side-by-side compare and data entry
A school page for every school, with your results at the top and the inputs grouped underneath
My Rankings: your list sorted best fit first
Compare side by side: a card for each school with the numbers that matter
The Money: cost, loans, debt and monthly payment for every school in one table
App Tracker: deadlines that count down, flags for anything due in 14 days, essay and letter checkboxes, and fees
Status board and Deadlines calendar
A Data Guide page that shows you where every number lives in a school's ABA 509 report and explains how each score is calculated
Three sample schools come pre-loaded so you can see how it works before you add your own.
Good to know
You'll need a Notion account. The free plan works.
After you buy, you'll download a one-page PDF with your template link and setup steps. Click the link and hit Duplicate to add it to your Notion.
Works in the Notion desktop app, the browser and the Notion phone app.
The scoring works the same way as the spreadsheet version. The scoring cutoffs are fixed in Notion. Your priority ratings and money assumptions are yours to change.
This is an estimating tool for comparing schools. Admit bands aren't predictions, and the debt numbers aren't financial advice. Confirm costs and aid with each school's financial aid office before you deposit.
Prefer a spreadsheet? The spreadsheet version is $4.99 and works in Excel and Google Sheets.
I kept hearing from pre-law students who already run their whole application in Notion. They had their schools in one place, their essays in another, their deadlines in their phone, and none of it talked to each other. So I took my law school ranking spreadsheet and rebuilt it in Notion.
You fill in one profile page with your LSAT, GPA, where you want to practice, your budget, and how much seven different things matter to you on a scale of 0 to 10. Every school you add gets its own page, and the template does the math on each one. Your rankings update the second you change anything, including your priorities.
This matters more this cycle than it used to. If you start law school after July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans are gone for new borrowers, and federal loans cap at $50,000 a year and $200,000 total. Anything a school costs above that comes from scholarships, savings or private loans. The template splits your federal and private borrowing for every school, so you see the gap before you apply.
What it figures out for each school
Your admit band (Likely, Target, Reach or Far Reach), based on where your LSAT and GPA fall against the school's percentiles
Your scholarship leverage, so you know where asking for more money makes sense
The true 3-year cost, with tuition increases and conditional scholarship risk built in
Federal loans vs. private loans, under the 2026 borrowing limits
What you'd owe when repayment starts and a monthly payment estimate
The scholarship you'd need each year to graduate with no loans
Each school's biggest strength and biggest gap
One overall score from 0 to 100 and a tier, weighted by your own priorities
What's inside
A dashboard with tabs for your rankings, what's due, a side-by-side compare and data entry
A school page for every school, with your results at the top and the inputs grouped underneath
My Rankings: your list sorted best fit first
Compare side by side: a card for each school with the numbers that matter
The Money: cost, loans, debt and monthly payment for every school in one table
App Tracker: deadlines that count down, flags for anything due in 14 days, essay and letter checkboxes, and fees
Status board and Deadlines calendar
A Data Guide page that shows you where every number lives in a school's ABA 509 report and explains how each score is calculated
Three sample schools come pre-loaded so you can see how it works before you add your own.
Good to know
You'll need a Notion account. The free plan works.
After you buy, you'll download a one-page PDF with your template link and setup steps. Click the link and hit Duplicate to add it to your Notion.
Works in the Notion desktop app, the browser and the Notion phone app.
The scoring works the same way as the spreadsheet version. The scoring cutoffs are fixed in Notion. Your priority ratings and money assumptions are yours to change.
This is an estimating tool for comparing schools. Admit bands aren't predictions, and the debt numbers aren't financial advice. Confirm costs and aid with each school's financial aid office before you deposit.
Prefer a spreadsheet? The spreadsheet version is $4.99 and works in Excel and Google Sheets.
