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Carlisle, Pennsylvania

Penn State Dickinson Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1931
Institution type
Public
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
159
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.71
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$60,048
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
215
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
83.4%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
87.6%
2025 graduates

Latest verified values from ABA required disclosures. Each dataset describes a different class, as labelled. The job share is PreLaw Advisor’s arithmetic (full-time, long-term bar-passage-required positions ÷ total graduates), not an ABA-published figure.

Historical year — the latest is fall 2025

First-year class — fall 2020

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2020)
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Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications829Not applicable
Offers of admission320Not applicable
Acceptance rate38.6%Not applicable
First-year enrollment8585
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th153 / 160 / 162153 / 160 / 162
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.14 / 3.39 / 3.733.14 / 3.39 / 3.73
Students with GRE scores10Not reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2020, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 153 · Median 160 · 75th 162
LSAT: published 25th percentile 153, median 160, 75th percentile 162.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.14 · Median 3.39 · 75th 3.73
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.14, median 3.39, 75th percentile 3.73.
GRE Verbal25th 152 · Median 153 · 75th 159
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 152, median 153, 75th percentile 159.
GRE Quantitative25th 145 · Median 146 · 75th 154
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 145, median 146, 75th percentile 154.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2020. Being above or below a published percentile does not determine an admissions decision.

J.D. enrollment

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — JD Enrollment and Ethnicity (2020)
Covers
Report year 2020
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
243
1L
85
2L
82
3L
76
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
73

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
2.6%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
6
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
3.00

Transfer GPA percentiles are only published when a school admits 12 or more transfer students.