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Harvard Law School

Rank 5 (USNWR 2023)
174
Median LSAT
3.92
Median GPA
10.1%
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 5 in 2023 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Harvard Law School is approximately 564.

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 3.99
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 8170 99
# Admissions offers 822 -
Class size 564 100
% Accepted 10.1% 99
% Yield 56.0% 98

During the 2023 application cycle, 8,170 people applied and 822 were offered admission.

Harvard University has a 1L class size of 564, and yield of 55.96%. 460 out of 822 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 55.96% 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 3.99.

Harvard Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2022-2023

LSD has stats for 2,072 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 Harvard Law School cost per year?

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Cost of attending Harvard Law School

In 2023, tuition was $71,734 and the annual cost of attending was $107,000 (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

99.4% of Harvard University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

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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anyone take this past june lsat?
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Anyone know if we can search for users based on their stats on here?
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AbrasiveColorfulImpala
23:11
Anyone have any idea how many people are still on the WL?
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
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Anyone else receive a feeler call today?
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
15:01
Any idea when well hear back?
TabooIrateClam
15:50
I got one
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
16:03
How long ago? Any call back yet?
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
16:03
Mine was ~3hrs ago
AbrasiveColorfulImpala
16:17
Had a feeler earlier and just got the call!
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
16:40
Same here!! Congrats!!
AbrasiveColorfulImpala
16:54
You too!!!
TabooIrateClam
17:01
Got a call too
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
19:07
Anyone know if there is a group chat for class of 2026?
AbrasiveColorfulImpala
22:33
If you find one can you post here? And congrats clam!
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
1:17
Will do!
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
1:17
Did they also tell you that there is no student housing available?
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
1:18
Also would love to make a group chat with us three in the mean time!
TabooIrateClam
2:45
Yeah would love to too
TabooIrateClam
2:45
Especially if we need to find housing
TabooIrateClam
3:00
I can’t dm on here, but I’m on Reddit so lmk. Don’t want to give out my other socials here since that has my name.
TabooIrateClam
5:50
I commented on that Reddit poll asking about recent WL admits if anyone wants to dm me that way
AbrasiveColorfulImpala
8:28
I’m OhCatastrophicBlues on Reddit
AbrasiveColorfulImpala
8:29
There’s a slack on the portal now. But honestly would appreciate a group chat with us three anyways to figure out some of this stuff. Like are we supposed to have our hls email already?
ConsciousExcellentGreyhound
12:25
@TabooIrateClam: Could you drop your reddit username here? or just message me at Kitchen-Stranger-481
TabooIrateClam
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TabooIrateClam
16:35
@ConsciousExcellentGreyhound: dmed you
11:15
this might be stupid but how are you guys getting movement before apps open. Waitlist movement from last cycle?
AthenaWho
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Hi I'm new here, does anyone know an accurate law school admissions predictor?
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You're on one @AthenaWho
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