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UC Irvine Law

Rank 35 (USNWR 2023)
167
Median LSAT
3.72
Median GPA
19.5%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • UC Irvine Law
  • University of California—Irvine
  • CALIFORNIA-IRVINE, UNIVERSITY OF
  • UCI

UC Irvine Law is a law school located in Irvine, California. The school was ranked 35 in 2023 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for UC Irvine Law is approximately 172.

Admissions website: https://www.law.uci.edu/admission/

Admissions email: admissions@law.uci.edu

Admissions phone: 949.824.5335

Can I get into UC Irvine Law with aGPA andLSAT?

UC Irvine Law Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 162 167 168
GPA 3.51 3.72 3.83
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 2802 76
# Admissions offers 545 -
Class size 172 51
% Accepted 19.4% 87
% Yield 31.0% 56

During the 2023 application cycle, 2,802 people applied and 545 were offered admission.

University of California—Irvine has a 1L class size of 172, and yield of 31.01%. 169 out of 545 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 31.01% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at University of California—Irvine has a median LSAT of 167. The 25th percentile LSAT is 162 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 168.

The median GPA is 3.72. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.51 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.83.

UC Irvine Law LSAT & GPA graph for 2022-2023

LSD has stats for 443 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 UC Irvine Law cost per year?

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Cost of attending UC Irvine Law

In 2023, tuition was $64,298 and the annual cost of attending was $95,235 (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.

UC Irvine Law employment outcomes

88.7% of University of California—Irvine graduates pass the bar on their first try.

Some interesting facts about UC Irvine Law

Located in sunny Orange County, California, UC Irvine School of Law (PDF) opened its doors to students in August 2009, the first new public law school in California in more than 40 years. UCI Law seeks to create the ideal law school for the twenty-first century by doing the best job of training lawyers for the practice of law at the highest levels of the profession. Recruited from prestigious schools, the faculty has been nationally recognized for its scholarly impact. The school’s innovative curriculum stresses hands-on learning, interdisciplinary study, and public service.

The law school has received tremendous recognition for its clinical training and intellectual property law programs, as well as for student diversity and its student-to-faculty ratio.

Other accolades include

national recognition for placement of our students in government and public interest jobs,

recognition as one of the country’s best schools for practical training,

the vast majority of our students rating their entire law school educational experience as “excellent” in a recent survey, and

recognition for student placement in prestigious federal judicial clerkships.

UCI Law prides itself on a commitment to public service, an innovative curriculum that features experiential learning, and its culture of civility. Take a look at how UCI Law’s inaugural class helped establish these foundations.

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OrganicAbsurdOrangutan
16:31
Victim of the WL wave )':
this hurts soooo bad bro :(
OrganicAbsurdOrangutan
16:52
i know dude ): hopefully we get off of the waitlist :/
piggy
16:54
does anyone know how much waitlist movement they typically have?
@piggy: did you get WL? there isn't too much data on WL movement but I would check reddit
wave predictions anyone?
11:22
does anyone have any information on how many people get off the waitlist?
Nad
19:36
are there any more acceptances left?
waitlist rip
wheredabarbzat
17:34
Is it safe to assume that there are no more acceptances lol
the. number of ppl they WL vs the numbr of ppl are accepted lol
did anyone get a WL interview? i heard of some of those recently
any movement today?
bruiserw00ds
13:58
doesnt look like it :') @HeavyCutPlatypus are you WL or still waiting for a regular decision?
no WL interviews? i want one
bruiserw00ds
17:11
@LovingInfamousMarshmallow: havent seen any yet! do you know people that got one? crossing my fingers for ussss
bruiserw00ds
17:13
in the WL email it seemed like they had offers ready
@bruiserw00ds: yeah i saw someone had a WL interview
you mean it sounded like they made decisions already?
bruiserw00ds
21:08
no, but they said they were extending several offers this week to active waitlist candidates
16:17
Any WL movement lately 👀👀
i believe that had one of their last WL waves
oof so is the class full?
just withdrew my app, not sure i had it in me to rewrite my personal/diversity statements to answer the five essay questions in the upcoming week lmaoooo
good luck to those who will submit and are hoping to get off the WL! it looks like they'll likely be admitting from it :))
hope whoever wants it, gets it
bruiserw00ds
15:30
@mexicanellewoods: thank you :') i hope you have a great rest of your summer before usd, and im going to be crossing my fingers for you that ucla comes through <3
@bruiserw00ds: ahh thank you so much, i'm committed to usd at this point as i'm in the process of signing a lease but who knows! maybe i'll transfer to ucla next year if i feel that sd isn't for me!! enjoy your summer and i hope to see you on the results page of lsd
did everyone on the waitlist get the additional essays?
bruiserw00ds
16:41
Yeah
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