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Harvard Law School

Rank 4 (USNWR 2022)
174
Median LSAT
3.92
Median GPA
6.9%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • Harvard Law School
  • Harvard University
  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY
  • HLS

Harvard Law School is a law school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school was ranked 4 in 2022 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Harvard Law School is approximately 562.

Admissions website: https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/jdadmissions/

Admissions email: jdadmiss@law.harvard.edu

Admissions phone: 617-495-1551

Can I get into Harvard Law School with aGPA andLSAT?

Harvard Law School Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 170 174 176
GPA 3.82 3.92 3.98
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 9933 99
# Admissions offers 685 -
Class size 562 100
% Accepted 6.9% 99
% Yield 54.0% 97

During the 2022 application cycle, 9,933 people applied and 685 were offered admission.

Harvard University has a 1L class size of 562, and yield of 54.01%. 370 out of 685 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 54.01% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at Harvard University has a median LSAT of 174. The 25th percentile LSAT is 170 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 176.

The median GPA is 3.92. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.82 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.98.

Harvard Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2021-2022

LSD has stats for 1,897 applicants for the 2021-2022 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.

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25th, 50th, 75th refer to percentiles from last year's admitted class
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How much does Harvard Law School cost per year?

$68,962.00
Tuition
95th percentile
$104,200.00
CoA
98th percentile
71.20%
Grads with debt
50th percentile
$169,187.00
Average debt
95th percentile
$190,000.00
Salary, 25th %
100th percentile
$190,000.00
Salary
100th percentile
$65,000.00
PI Salary
81st percentile
88.10%
Employment rate
94th percentile
98.90%
Bar pass rate
95th percentile

Cost of attending Harvard Law School

In 2022, tuition was $68,962 and the annual cost of attending was $104,200 (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.

Harvard Law School employment outcomes

JD graduates from Harvard University make $190,000 (median) upon graduation if they work in the private sector. If they go into the private sector, a grad can expect to make $65,000.

60.6% of law graduates from Harvard University go directly to work for law firms, while 18.3% clerk for a judge. 11.3% of graduates go into public interest.

98.9% of Harvard University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

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Some interesting facts about Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School provides amazing opportunities to study law and related disciplines in a rigorous but collaborative environment. Due to its large enrollment and faculty size, Harvard is distinguished by its unparalleled breadth and depth of courses and clinics, its wide array of research programs, its diverse student body drawn from around the world, and its extensive network of highly respected alumni. Beyond the law school, law students can tap into Harvard University’s extraordinary resources through cross registration and a variety of social and cultural activities.

Harvard Law School’s faculty members are engaged in cutting-edge research and generate the most important publications across the legal curriculum, playing an unsurpassed role in influencing jurists and policy makers.

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PeeledBanana
11:59
lets see the size of HLS WL after tomorrow
PeeledBanana
11:59
how many do they normally take off wl?
harvard pulls a decent chunk from their WL
12:40
Still not heard. Is the WL out?
Just got my R
Good luck to everyone!
Has anyone with an A's status checker updated? I got two calls but couldn't hear them then an email from KJ saying she'd tried to call and couldn't leave a voicemail, but I'll have an update in my status checker in a few hours. I feel like that means I got an A, but I won't be positive until I see it.
@VolatileGuppy: mine has not updated yet either. if you got a call tho you were accepted
Amazing, thank you!!
14:25
What does it mean if you haven't received anything today, even on the status checker?
14:56
^
TabooIrateClam
14:57
WL probably for niw
16:02
Yep just got my WL
cartographerbro
16:26
got the WL
PeeledBanana
16:32
this WL will be huge
TabooIrateClam
16:37
will it ... it was bigger last year (obviously people are still updating but idk)
PeeledBanana
16:43
im going off the fact that when I got my WL result, my status update told me they select very few round two, but expect round three to be massive
PeeledBanana
16:44
ok, just went back to my status checker and it didnt say it there. I cant remember where i read that...
PeeledBanana
16:44
honestly the smaller the better lol
16:57
HLS A !
16:57
im so hype rnnnn
18:25
hey did HLS ever send out the email for WL? my status checker updated but no email
19:45
no email for me
NonstopCourageousCorgi
20:14
anyone know the date for ASD?
I don’t think they released them yet
Sometime in April according to the email
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12:25
it is good to be WL
13:08
@NonstopCourageousCorgi: March 31st, April 7,14,21
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12:53
bye
NonstopCourageousCorgi
13:11
@Carmelynn: thanks
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