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Winston Salem, North Carolina

Wake Forest University School of Law

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1936
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
166
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.79
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$57,920
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
204
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
89.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
89.6%
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 2019

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2019)
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Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications2,121Not applicable
Offers of admission858Not applicable
Acceptance rate40.5%Not applicable
First-year enrollment217217
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th156 / 162 / 163156 / 162 / 163
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.50 / 3.68 / 3.813.50 / 3.68 / 3.81
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2019, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 156 · Median 162 · 75th 163
LSAT: published 25th percentile 156, median 162, 75th percentile 163.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.50 · Median 3.68 · 75th 3.81
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.50, median 3.68, 75th percentile 3.81.

The school did not publish full GRE percentiles for this class, so a GRE comparison is not shown. PreLaw Advisor does not convert GRE scores into LSAT equivalents.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2019. 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 (2019)
Covers
Report year 2019
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
535
1L
217
2L
171
3L
147
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
161

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
1.1%
1L other attrition
6.7%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
0
1L transfers out
1
Transfer GPA median
Not reported

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