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Vanderbilt Law School

Rank 16 (USNWR 2023)
170
Median LSAT
3.9
Median GPA
14.5%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • Vanderbilt Law School
  • Vanderbilt University
  • VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY
  • Vandy

Vanderbilt Law School is a law school located in Nashville, Tennessee. The school was ranked 16 in 2023 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Vanderbilt Law School is approximately 155.

Admissions website: https://law.vanderbilt.edu/prospective-students/admissions/

Admissions email: admissions@law.vanderbilt.edu

Admissions phone: 615-322-6452

Can I get into Vanderbilt Law School with aGPA andLSAT?

Vanderbilt Law School Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 163 170 170
GPA 3.57 3.9 3.98
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 5817 92
# Admissions offers 845 -
Class size 155 42
% Accepted 14.5% 94
% Yield 17.8% 6

During the 2023 application cycle, 5,817 people applied and 845 were offered admission.

Vanderbilt University has a 1L class size of 155, and yield of 17.75%. 150 out of 845 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 17.75% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at Vanderbilt University has a median LSAT of 170. The 25th percentile LSAT is 163 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 170.

The median GPA is 3.9. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.57 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.98.

Vanderbilt Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2022-2023

LSD has stats for 1,411 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 Vanderbilt Law School cost per year?

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Cost of attending Vanderbilt Law School

In 2023, tuition was $68,816 and the annual cost of attending was $98,784 (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.

Vanderbilt Law School employment outcomes

95.2% of Vanderbilt University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

Some interesting facts about Vanderbilt Law School

A Balanced Approach

Among the nation’s leading law schools, Vanderbilt Law School stands out as a forward-thinking community of professionals committed to providing tomorrow’s lawyers with the knowledge, skills, and experience they need to tackle difficult problems locally, nationally, and globally in law, public service, business, government, or other areas where law and legal reasoning promote positive outcomes for individuals and society. Scholarship, professional development, and commitment to service for the greater good are integral components of a Vanderbilt legal education.

With about 155 students in each entering JD class, our smaller size allows greater access to an elite faculty in an unusually collegial and rigorous school culture. Drawn from across the nation and abroad, VLS students have remarkably varied backgrounds, experiences, and professional goals, while sharing a common commitment to challenge themselves and each other to excel.

With state-of-the-art facilities situated on a beautiful and vibrant university campus in a sophisticated and livable city, Vanderbilt offers a balanced approach to a productive and rewarding legal education.

Accessible Faculty, Collegial Culture

The central experience of a Vanderbilt legal education is working closely with our faculty of leading experts who approach teaching with the same careful preparation, skill, and enthusiasm they seek to foster in students embarking on professional careers. Lawyers must be team players in difficult circumstances, and Vanderbilt’s well-established active-learning culture promotes collegiality, collaboration, mutual support, and respect for others’ views as integral components of professional practice. Widely respected for their scholarly impact, professors draw on their cutting-edge scholarship to create engaging classroom courses connected to experiential learning opportunities that strengthen core and content legal expertise. Faculty members take an open-door approach, extending their availability to students well beyond class times.

An outstanding classroom curriculum reinforced by experiential and interdisciplinary approaches to advanced training in the second and third years are the hallmarks of a Vanderbilt legal education. Entering students begin their studies with Life of the Law, a course designed to distill the core ideas of legal education and provide tools and information that help beginning law students become productive and effective as quickly as possible. First-year sections of 55 to 60 students study torts, contracts, criminal law, civil procedure, property, and the regulatory state. Legal writing and a spring semester elective course round out the first-year curriculum.

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its been optional since the application opened therefore its diff from loci as loci is for ghosting/waitlist
also should i submit the video essay? do we feel like theres any decisions coming soon??
Just in case you missed it: someone called Vandy today about when the next A wave would be and they said they release As once a month and expect to release the next wave either this week or next week!
RebelMelodicLion
12:55
so do u think its fine to write the "written letter of interest"
flamingggHomer
13:20
Hello…one question…for the people that have been accepted when did u hear about scholarship?
HeavyCutPlatypus
14:53
Dang, so the vandy wave is real?
15:48
I dont understand how i got wl when people several people with lower GPA/LSAT’s got A’s. Confuses me.
15:49
I think its time to go begging haha
schlurp their noodle
is vandy stats pilled or are they pickier than that
ask anyone else not heard ? I applied in October and still have no answer
THEKID123
11:40
same here
THEKID123
11:41
its kinda screwed up to make us wait 5 months? like what?
Can they just tell me no and put me out of my misery? 😭
ikr
Has anyone else with lower stats still not heard back? Confused why I haven’t been in any of the R or WL waves
any word on need based Access VLS grants
THEKID123
12:23
can someone take one for the team and call to ask if were gonna hear before deposit deadlines LOL
@THEKID123: plssssss
14:46
does anyone know if there’s an admitted student gc? I have questions about the ASW
EnchantingSwankyDog
11:10
same: my stats are lower. I was expecting a WL or R pretty quickly as well.
AdjoiningKindBison
14:23
anyone know when we'll hear from acess2vls/fin aid
when is the deposit deadline
did anyone who was waitlisted get a feeler email today?
I did and trying to see if it was a smaller group or if everyone received it
15:47
@AggressiveManatee: Yeah I got one. The survey was the same one I got when I was waitlisted
UnnaturalLikeGoat
12:48
Notre Dame is so under ranked
fancycanary
12:50
Was is really a feeler email? The wording has me questioning it. Also, did anyone get a confirmation they completed the survey?
@AbsurdClammyToddler I'm below both medians and applied late nov. and I still haven't heard back.
be ready to wait 5-6 months. timeliness isn't at the forefront of these processes.
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