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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 438 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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Disengaged3
14:40
LET ME IN PLEASE :)
Disengaged3
14:40
I WILL ATTEND FOR A MERE 30K A YEAR SCHOLLY
Just got my R, wooo
I think i dodged this one... but I'm still worried since my status disappeared last week
got WL'd by a school last cycle, retook LSAT and increased by double digits just to get rejected this cycle lol. make it make sense
Disengaged3
16:19
@HeavyCutPlatypus: I understand this pain
That's insane
Praying UCI will break my WL cycle
20:12
you guys think the R wave is over? just bumped to the top of status checker for me
Disengaged3
12:53
Aw man
Disengaged3
12:53
Status checker went to the top
Disengaged3
12:53
but are they just purging or will there be a lucky few
AdjoiningResonantClam
12:32
status checker says WL
@AdjoiningResonantClam: for UCI? When did you get this update?
AdjoiningResonantClam
13:07
just now
Yall think there will be an A wave today too?
Will there be any more A waves?
does irvine waitlist 167s at a certain gpa?
16:38
167 with 3.3 or below looks like the waitlist cutoff
16:39
Looks like 166 needs above a 3.6 for A
16:40
A few are below those stats but not many… slow cycle for sure
@SocalNocal: does this mean a lot more As will be coming?
1:32
Has to, not enough admits seem to have been given. Maybe later this week or even tomorrow? i think they are waiting to see how the other programs shake out first?
17:10
Admitted students discord link: https://discord.gg/s6dJwT4b9v
@SocalNocal: You called it!!!!!
soulabee
17:50
when do yall think the next wave will be?
soulabee
13:19
irvine WYA
14:37
i know this is probably a no, but it is (practically) too late to apply?
FranticDailyButterfly
21:38
You’ll do yourself a favor by applying next cycle. There’s nothing wrong with waiting
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