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New Haven, Connecticut

Yale Law School

Accreditation
ABA approved since 1923
Institution type
Private
J.D. formats
Full-time J.D.
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Median LSAT
174
Fall 2025 entering class
Median GPA
3.96
Fall 2025 entering class
Resident tuition
$76,636
Full-time, 2025-2026
First-year class
204
Enrolled fall 2025
Bar-required jobs
87.2%
Class of 2025, full-time long-term
First-time bar passage
98.5%
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 2021

Source
Organization
American Bar Association, Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar
Document
ABA Standard 509 compilation — First Year Class (2021)
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Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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First-year class statistics by enrollment status
MeasureAll studentsFull-time
Completed applications5,194Not applicable
Offers of admission214Not applicable
Acceptance rate4.1%Not applicable
First-year enrollment201201
LSAT 25th / 50th / 75th171 / 174 / 177171 / 174 / 177
UGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.88 / 3.94 / 3.993.88 / 3.94 / 3.99
Students with GRE scoresNot reportedNot reported
Students with JD-Next scoresNot reportedNot reported

No part-time first-year students were reported for fall 2021, so part-time statistics are not applicable.

Where published numbers fall

LSAT25th 171 · Median 174 · 75th 177
LSAT: published 25th percentile 171, median 174, 75th percentile 177.
Undergraduate GPA25th 3.88 · Median 3.94 · 75th 3.99
Undergraduate GPA: published 25th percentile 3.88, median 3.94, 75th percentile 3.99.
GRE Verbal25th 167 · Median 168 · 75th 169
GRE Verbal: published 25th percentile 167, median 168, 75th percentile 169.
GRE Quantitative25th 162 · Median 166 · 75th 169
GRE Quantitative: published 25th percentile 162, median 166, 75th percentile 169.

These are descriptive statistics about students who enrolled in fall 2021. 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 (2021)
Covers
Report year 2021
Retrieved
Sep 23, 2026
Status
Verified · Sep 23, 2026
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Total J.D. students
636
1L
203
2L
222
3L
211
4L
0
J.D. degrees awarded
220

Attrition & transfers

1L academic attrition
0%
1L other attrition
0%
Upper-level academic attrition
0%
Transfers in
12
1L transfers out
0
Transfer GPA median
3.96

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