10 Law Schools That Are Hardest to Get Into

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"To gain acceptance to some of the highest-ranked law schools in the nation, applicants will have to compete against thousands of others to secure a spot in one of these small cohorts.

The top-ranked law school in the nation was once again the hardest to get into. Out of 3,198 applicants in fall 2019, just 263 students received admissions offers at Yale Law School, which equals an acceptance rate of 8.2%.

Among the 193 ranked law schools that reported this information to U.S. News in an annual survey, the average fall 2019 acceptance rate was much higher, at 45%, with several schools reporting figures above 70%. In contrast, acceptance rates among the 10 schools that are hardest to get into ranged from 18% at the highest to 8.2% at the lowest, with an average acceptance rate of 14.5%." …

https://wtop.com/news/2020/05/10-law-schools-that-are-hardest-to-get-into-3/

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The Top 10 Hardest Law Schools to Get into:

  1. Yale
  2. Stanford
  3. Harvard
  4. UPenn
  5. Virginia
  6. Columbia
  7. Michigan
  8. UTexas-Austin
  9. USC
  10. Northwestern

NOT making the list:

Univ. of Chicago
Duke
Cornell
Georgetown
UCal-Berkeley

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misleading title of the article (and of this thread). This list is just the Acceptance rates of law schools.

Acceptance rate is not the same as ‘hardest to get into’. (see Tulane which offers thousands of free apps for for undergrad)