LSD.Law Law School Admissions Data Scraper

Scrapes the publicly-accessible ABA 509 statistics for all ABA-accredited US law schools from LSD.Law — the de-facto community admissions-data hub for pre-law applicants.

What it returns

For each of up to 296 ABA-accredited law schools:

Field	Example
school_name	Yale University
school_slug	yale-law-school
school_url	https://lsd.law/schools/yale-law-school
city	New Haven
state	Connecticut
us_news_rank	1
median_lsat	174
lsat_25th	171
lsat_75th	177
median_gpa	3.96
gpa_25th	3.90
gpa_75th	4.00
acceptance_rate	0.0406
applications	5562
class_size	204
data_source_year	2025
scrapedAt	2026-06-06T...

How it works

1. Walks the LSD.law sitemap to discover all /schools/<slug> URLs.
2. Fetches each school's detail page and parses the publicly-rendered ABA 509 stats block — no login required.
3. Location and school name come from JSON-LD EducationalOrganization markup on each page.

Input

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	296	Maximum number of schools to scrape

Notes

• Data source: ABA 509 report data (most recent year available on LSD.Law — typically the current academic year).
• Scope: Public ABA 509 aggregate stats only. Per-school scattergram data (individual applicant decisions) requires a LSD.Law account and is intentionally out of scope.
• Canadian schools: LSD.Law includes a small number of Canadian law schools in the sitemap that have no ABA 509 data. These are automatically skipped.
• Closed schools: Defunct programs (e.g., Valparaiso, Whittier, William Mitchell) remain in the sitemap but return no stats — also skipped.
• Rate limiting: Respects a 1-second crawl delay and handles 429 responses with automatic backoff.