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Yale Law School

Rank 1 (USNWR 2023)
175
Median LSAT
3.94
Median GPA
5.7%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • Yale Law School
  • Yale University
  • YALE UNIVERSITY
  • YLS

Yale Law School is a law school located in New Haven, Connecticut. The school was ranked 1 in 2023 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Yale Law School is approximately 197.

Admissions website: https://law.yale.edu/admissions/jd-admissions

Admissions email: admissions.law@yale.edu

Admissions phone: 203-432-4995

Can I get into Yale Law School with aGPA andLSAT?

Yale Law School Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 171 175 178
GPA 3.87 3.94 3.99
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 4129 88
# Admissions offers 236 -
Class size 197 60
% Accepted 5.7% 100
% Yield 71.2% 98

During the 2023 application cycle, 4,129 people applied and 236 were offered admission.

Yale University has a 1L class size of 197, and yield of 71.19%. 168 out of 236 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 71.19% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at Yale University has a median LSAT of 175. The 25th percentile LSAT is 171 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 178.

The median GPA is 3.94. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.87 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.99.

Yale Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2022-2023

LSD has stats for 1,174 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 Yale Law School cost per year?

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Cost of attending Yale Law School

In 2023, tuition was $69,100 and the annual cost of attending was $94,356 (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.

Yale Law School employment outcomes

98.1% of Yale University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

Some interesting facts about Yale Law School

Yale Law School is an extraordinary community in which to study law. Standing at the intersection of the worlds of thought and action, Yale seeks to promote an intellectual understanding of the law, and to sustain the moral commitments that justice requires.

Extensive student-faculty interactions and institutional flexibility are hallmarks of the Yale Law School experience. Students enjoy many opportunities for research and writing one-on-one with professors. The school’s extremely low faculty-to-student ratio allows it to offer a wide range of courses and classes. YLS has an average class size of approximately 20 students.

The school is also part of one of the world’s great research universities.

Yale Law Students get access to all the benefits of Yale University which is home to an abundance of intellectual, cultural, social, and athletic activities.

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VirtuousWheat11
10:31
@LinedSand11: lets gooooo
@SmolBean: 4 PM est
cloudsinmycoffee
12:33
@WatermelonLover: why then?
@cloudsinmycoffee from past two waves it occured at that time i believe
cloudsinmycoffee
13:01
Ah, thanks!
13:07
can they just send out the WLs
13:08
I feel like it’s not gonna be until tomorrow though
i heard their office is closed tomorrow for the holiday
LinedSand11
13:20
honestly i'm not sure that's true
queencard
13:23
yeah if you look up yale employee holidays it's listed
queencard
13:24
idk why but university holidays for employees are often different from the academic calendar holidays
FriendlyEarsplittingPanda
13:37
I was really holding out hope for more A's
FriendlyEarsplittingPanda
13:38
I love living in delusion
VirtuousWheat11
13:54
apparently today is also ivy decision day for undergrad cuz offices are closed tomorrow
VirtuousWheat11
13:54
so really should be today unless it's automated or something
just checked my portal and my decision was waiting there for me
#rejected
waitlist in portal
LinedSand11
14:03
WL in portal
14:12
email is out
Eve
14:29
you know at least we got a decision 😭
Eve
14:30
i needed the closure
Did any non-interviewee get onto the waitlist?
R
16:37
@IdyllingApplicant: second this, and any idea what the II -> WL conversion rate was?
19:04
I see 40 II - > WL reported out of about 170 interviews reported, but a large number of folks have not reported
i mean why tf did they hang on to my/others applications so long then
guess well never know
SpeedDemons
1:00
Rejected
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