When referring to a school, you should make sure that you are using the names that they prefer to be called rather than what you may know them as colloquially. Also make sure that you are using the correct name – some are schools of law, some are law schools, while others are colleges of law. You don’t want to miss such details. Here is a (likely incomplete) list of how the top 50-ish schools refer to themselves in their marketing materials: 1 - Yale Law School – YLS – Yale 2 - Stanford La
Data is based on acceptance rates for the incoming class of 2018. Source: ABA-required disclosures. 1 Yale University 6.85% 2 Stanford University 8.72% 3 Harvard University 12.86% 4 University of Pennsylvania 14.58% 5 University of Virginia 15.33% 6 Columbia University 16.79% 7 University of Chicago 17.48% 8 University of Southern California 19.24% 9 Northwestern University 19.33% 10 University of Michigan 19.60% 11 University of California—Berkeley 19.69% 12 Duke University 20.15%
*Please note, schools can change these dates, and it is possible that when we called to ask them that they gave us the dates applications become available to fill out on the LSAC website rather than when applications are accepted (although we were very careful to clearly articulate what we were asking about) — but this should be highly accurate to the extent we can control it. Also please note that several schools told us that they had not yet decided on an exact date that they will be acceptin
As of today, we are excited to announce the launch of our newest project, My Rank!
As many of you know, we have spent the past several months developing a tool for prospective law school applicants to create their own customized law school rankings.
With recent data published by the Department of Education, Law School Transparency compiled and analyzed law school graduates' median law school debt and their median earnings in the year after graduation.
The link to all of the entering class data for every ABA-approved law school from the official 509 reports is here.
We're compiling a list of law schools that are fully or primarily online for the Fall 2020 semester.
In the below spreadsheet, we keep track of law schools' new medians for the entering 2020 class of 1Ls.
