These 10 law schools are the choosiest
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If you applied to your favorite law school last year only to face rejection, you are in good company.
According to the U.S. News & Report Short List, the average acceptance rate last fall, among 193 ranked law schools, was 44%. The average acceptance rate for students who began in the fall of 2020 at the 10 choosiest law schools was much lower—an average of only 14.5%.
Above the Law publicized the findings in a blog post last week. According to U.S. News, these 10 law schools had the lowest acceptance rates:
• Yale University, with an acceptance rate of 7.4%.
• Stanford University, with an acceptance rate of 10.5%.
• Harvard University, with an acceptance rate of 13%.
• The University of Virginia, with an acceptance rate of 14.1%.
• The University of Pennsylvania (Carey), with an acceptance rate of 14.3%.
• The University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, with an acceptance rate of 16.4%.
• Columbia University, with an acceptance rate of 16.7%.
• The University of Southern California (Gould), with an acceptance rate of 17.2%.
• Wake Forest University, with an acceptance rate of 17.8%.
• The University of Chicago, with an acceptance rate of 17.9%.
Eight of 10 schools on the above list are ranked in the top 10 overall by U.S. News. The other schools are the University of Southern California’s Gould School of Law, ranked No. 19, and Wake Forest University in North Carolina, which is tied with another school for the No. 41 ranking.
The least choosy law school was Capital University in Ohio, which admitted 73.9% of applicants.
