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Stanford Law School

Rank 1 (USNWR 2025)
173
Median LSAT
3.92
Median GPA
8.9%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • Stanford Law School
  • Stanford University
  • STANFORD UNIVERSITY
  • SLS

Stanford Law School is a law school located in Stanford, California. The school was ranked 1 in 2025 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Stanford Law School is approximately 174.

Admissions website: https://law.stanford.edu/apply/

Admissions email: admissions@law.stanford.edu

Admissions phone: 650 723.4985

Can I get into Stanford Law School with aGPA andLSAT?

Stanford Law School Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 171 173 175
GPA 3.83 3.95 3.99
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 4863 90
# Admissions offers 353 -
Class size 174 53
% Accepted 7.3% 100
% Yield 44.5% 95

During the 2025 application cycle, 4,863 people applied and 353 were offered admission.

Stanford University has a 1L class size of 174, and yield of 44.48%. 157 out of 353 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 44.48% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at Stanford University has a median LSAT of 173. The 25th percentile LSAT is 169 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 175.

The median GPA is 3.92. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.78 and the 75th percentile GPA is 4.0.

Stanford Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2023-2024

LSD has stats for 1,191 applicants for the 2023-2024 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.

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25th, 50th, 75th refer to percentiles from last year's admitted class

How much does Stanford Law School cost per year?

$73,713.00
Tuition
93rd percentile
$121,545.00
CoA
100th percentile
96.70%
Bar pass rate
98th percentile

*The following data belongs to previous years.

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Cost of attending Stanford Law School

In 2025, tuition was $73,713 and the annual cost of attending was $121,545 (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.

Stanford Law School employment outcomes

96.7% of Stanford University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

Some interesting facts about Stanford Law School

Stanford Law School is part of Stanford University, one of the world’s best research institutions. This connection provides many opportunities for interdisciplinary cooperation.

Stanford University is a private university located in the heart of Silicon Valley, just 35 miles south of San Francisco and next door to Palo Alto. The university’s 8,180 acres stretch between the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains and the cities of Palo Alto and Menlo Park. This part of the US offers an ideal Mediterranean climate of dry, warm summers and temperate winters.

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I really jinxed myself I just got my rejection
Are there As going out rn?
Awe post master I’m sorry :(( did you apply late?
Also looks like waitlists have started
ajangel
16:22
For those of you who applied late cycle, have you received a rejection yet?
16:28
I applied at the literal deadline and have hear nothing
ajangel
17:17
Same--I'm expecting to get rejected. Harvard rejection was last week and I applied late cycle, but they're usually fast from what I understand. I hear Stanford is slow.
LovelyDay
20:16
I guess I got rejected today, although hard to know bc they don't actually tell you
Sagittariusmoons
23:20
does anyone have an estimate as to how many offers still need to be sent out?
I applied in September and still haven't heard back. It's just a waiting game!
I applied on the day of the deadline. Has anyone that applied then heard back?
??
what time does stanford usually release decisions?
Does anyone know if they're mostly done accepting people at this point?
I've heard they send batches of rejections very late, so I assume no news so far is bad news
Any updates?
what time does stanford usually release decisions?
20:42
does Stanford DLS in the portal mean R if that's all we've heard today?
djinnsoul
0:52
i believe so
Where in the portal would it say DLS?
I don't see it anywhere
djinnsoul
16:08
If you don't see it then your decision letter hasn't been sent yet
djinnsoul
16:08
It would be in the red text at the top
Thank you! Do you think there's any chance they're still accepting people?
djinnsoul
18:57
you can see that a few ppl got accepted today
Yeah, I just saw. Thanks! Sorry I haven't really used lsdlaw so didn't realize
SLS really taking their time this year :(
someone posted on reddit today that they got an A, so it's still possible
Think the A's are finished?
Trismegistus
16:49
THEY GOT ONE LEFT FOR ME I BET
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