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Northwestern Law School

Rank 10 (USNWR 2023)
171
Median LSAT
3.89
Median GPA
15.0%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • Northwestern Law School
  • Northwestern University
  • NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY
  • NU Pritzker

Northwestern Law School is a law school located in Evanston, Illinois. The school was ranked 10 in 2023 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Northwestern Law School is approximately 238.

Admissions website: https://www.law.northwestern.edu/admissions/

Admissions email: admissions@law.northwestern.edu

Admissions phone: (312) 503-8465

Can I get into Northwestern Law School with aGPA andLSAT?

Northwestern Law School Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 166 171 172
GPA 3.63 3.89 3.95
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 6247 94
# Admissions offers 940 -
Class size 238 80
% Accepted 15.1% 92
% Yield 24.4% 22

During the 2023 application cycle, 6,247 people applied and 940 were offered admission.

Northwestern University has a 1L class size of 238, and yield of 24.36%. 229 out of 940 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 24.36% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at Northwestern University has a median LSAT of 171. The 25th percentile LSAT is 166 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 172.

The median GPA is 3.89. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.63 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.95.

Northwestern Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2022-2023

LSD has stats for 1,643 applicants for the 2022-2023 application cycle.

The graphs show applicant results plotted against GPA and LSAT. The dotted lines on the graphs represent the 25/50/75th percentiles reported by the school in their ABA 509 report from the previous year.

Each data point represents an LSD user that shared their application results for the benefit of future applicants.

Click on a data point to see that user's profile.

25th, 50th, 75th refer to percentiles from last year's admitted class

How much does Northwestern Law School cost per year?

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Cost of attending Northwestern Law School

In 2023, tuition was $72,212 and the annual cost of attending was $99,648 (tuition plus living expenses).

Cost of Attendance (CoA) is the estimated total amount you will have to spend every year to go to school. Unlike tuition, CoA includes expenses like rent, food, and insurance.

Northwestern Law School employment outcomes

95.1% of Northwestern University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

Some interesting facts about Northwestern Law School

Located in downtown Chicago, Northwestern Law is an innovative institution that empowers students to meet the complex challenges of the ever-changing legal and business worlds.

Northwestern is renowned for recruiting students with exceptional academic ability and strong interpersonal skills. Northwestern Law’s faculty is among the nation’s most interdisciplinary and focuses on a team-oriented curriculum to prepare students for work outside of law school.

Northwestern University

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Do we know that they go alphabetical?
Anyone from the West coast receive a call?
17:19
What times do calls go to?
why do they make you log into a portal just to see the waitlist 😭
once again missed a wave
TanSwankyCorgi
22:41
Does everyone get the WL interview invite? And if so, anyone know if it really makes a difference?
10:35
hey guys I was actually never able to enter the portal with the temporary user and password cause every time I clicked reset after changing the password it would just take me back to the first screen. Anyone knows how to fix that?
I had to email admissions
BlessedAlways
19:14
Does anyone know when NU deposits are due? \
Deposit due May 1 I think
KoalaBear12345
19:04
@LudovicaM: are you using any special characters? I wasn't able to reset my password until I omitted special characters!!
19:07
how long did y'all wait to hear back???
SimpleFalseFerret
9:40
Some november people are still waiting to hear back
Does anyone know if completing the NU WL-specific interview is basically equivalent to a LOCI, or would a WL invitee also need to write a LOCI in order to be considered to have submitted one?
17:56
Great question, I do not know. I personally would do both, but maybe a good question to ask in the interview? I've emailed the places I'm waitlisted to see of they want LOCI and I've got a mixed response, if that's helpful.
Well, it's a Kira interview, so I couldn't ask that question and get an answer in the interview itself. But yes, I could email NU about it. I'd air on the side of writing a LOCI in addition to doing the interview.
wait NU is already calling this early?!
nvm disregard
hi all, someone on reddit said that NU is almost full and they got that info from this chat. Can anyone tell me where they found this info or how they're predicting it?
^^ wondering the same!!!!
jb2028
18:51
@rachelfromsuitsxo: I was probably the source for that info. I ran numbers yesterday, and at that point NU had made 339 offers people logged on here compared to 371 last year (up to ~91% of last year's total). That said, more people have logged applications this year than last for NU, so there might be a higher share of admits represented here and up to 20% left to be made.
WillyPetey27
10:59
BU has been at the top of my lawhub for the past week despite getting other decisions WHAT DOES IT MEAAN
WillyPetey27
11:01
disregard lol
17:50
One day soon-ish, I’ll never go on this website again. And I think that’s beautiful
thats the most beautiful thing ive ever heard
FriendlyEarsplittingPanda
23:01
Love that for you
FriendlyEarsplittingPanda
23:01
Also has anyone who submitted in Feb heard anything?
I applied in December and haven't heard anything lol
casafromtx
15:15
no calls today?
MountainousRedundantBee
15:48
I think NU is done with acceptances - financial aid application deadline and ASW is next week and they aren’t extending that
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