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Stanford Law School

Rank 1 (USNWR 2023)
173
Median LSAT
3.92
Median GPA
6.9%
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 2023 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Stanford Law School is approximately 178.

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 170 173 176
GPA 3.84 3.92 3.99
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 4882 89
# Admissions offers 336 -
Class size 178 53
% Accepted 6.9% 100
% Yield 47.3% 95

During the 2023 application cycle, 4,882 people applied and 336 were offered admission.

Stanford University has a 1L class size of 178, and yield of 47.32%. 159 out of 336 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 47.32% 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 170 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 176.

The median GPA is 3.92. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.84 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.99.

Stanford Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2022-2023

LSD has stats for 1,296 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 Stanford Law School cost per year?

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Cost of attending Stanford Law School

In 2023, tuition was $68,997 and the annual cost of attending was $115,230 (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

97.1% 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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Victorious
15:53
And does everyone who has a waitlist also have a DLS change the same day?
legallyexhausted
16:02
Not sure about others, but today, 5/13: my status changed to DLS and I received WL email
Victorious
17:06
@legallyexhausted: for such an amazing school with such smart people you would think they could make a less confusing process.
DifferentTalentedStingray
20:09
But since stanford said that their class is already full, doesn’t this mean that they likely won’t take any WL’ed applicants? Also a WL applicant here but doing a reality check
AverageGlisteningAxolotl
8:59
Who still hasn't heard at all lol
FlynnRoadStar
9:19
saw on reddit the class is overenrolled
corporate
22:34
@Victorious: legallyexhausted is correct. when added to WL, you typically (although there may be exceptions bc their process is so opaque) see the red DLS update at top and get the WL email the same day. with Rs, it's just DLS and a letter via postal mail. unbelievably terribly process. thank god for LSD, which provided me with some clarity
corporate
22:35
terrible*
corporate
22:40
the thing about these schools is, like anything else, however great they are or are perceived to be, there are still run by flawed individuals and comprised of individual parts. e.g., once i accompanied a close relative to the mayo clinic to address their health issue. the individual physicians were universally awful, but the seamless process of the diagnostics and work of the technicians was wonderful. that's my absurdly long way of saying, stanford and similar schools may be generally great, but they are far from perfect
corporate
22:41
they*
Well, today is deposit day! Hoping that there can be some movement for us on the WL!
AgonizingFadedDwarf
19:16
anyone know whether SLS has specific preferences for number of pages and spacing in the LOCIs?
AgonizingFadedDwarf
19:16
can't find anything anywhere
i think genreally they reccomend a one page LOCI
21:14
Small question, Im currently an undergrad at UVA about to enter my fourth year and while UVA is my top choice I'm, unsurprisingly, interested in SLS. I was wondering, does a higher LSAT score decrease chances holding GPA constant? Because that's what the chance me is showing
21:14
and how much weight should I give the percentages the chance me spits out?
21:15
because I assume it ain't gospel just an extrapolation given a sample
10:24
Reddit (the most reliable source, besides haruspicy of course) says it's joever https://www.reddit.com/r/lawschooladmissions/comments/1cwbhso/stanford_wl_data/
AverageGlisteningAxolotl
11:11
are there still people who haven't heard an initial decision?
11:55
@AverageGlisteningAxolotl: Yes, I'm people
11:57
SLS got my app, did not decide to admit me (evidently), and then sat on it for six months for some reason (have not gotten so much as the pre-R/WL "decision letter sent")
12:00
Not much doubt about the result at this point (As are done, WL as good as an R if they're full) but would like to know for my own curiosity if nothing else
It's bizarre to me that with an over enrolled class, why offer any WL at all. Just refund everyone who gets an automatic R at the end of the cycle for lack of space and complete consideration haha.
AverageGlisteningAxolotl
12:34
so wild. maybe they want a bunch of reserves in case their admits/waitlists dont pan out like they thought. still... not cool
matchalulu
12:40
For those who are still waiting on an initial decision, I received my WL the same day after requesting an update.
matchalulu
12:43
Although I'm not 100% certain those two things are directly correlated.
AverageGlisteningAxolotl
12:45
It may be coincidental. I have emailed twice recently and just received confirmation that they have my application
matchalulu
12:49
That's interesting. Doesn't make much sense to keep apps in limbo if it is an auto WL/R at this point.
FlynnRoadStar
13:15
though people may not like her style, i think dean deal is just very committed to giving individual attention to apps, so she considers it important to give thought to whether an app is a WL/R even if there is a very slim chance they pull from the WL. To just auto-R everyone here would certainly cause complaints as well
I absolutely agree. Taking the time to give individual attention to the applications is so important. It's never going to be a perfect cycle. I just hope that those with outstanding responses were given full consideration for an A before being put into a "we'll get back to those eventually" pile.
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