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How
can
you
measure
a
law
school’s
worth,
aside
from
the
employment
statistics
of
its
graduates?
Another
telling
sign
of
its
success
may
be
its
selectivity
—
i.e.,
its
acceptance
rate.
But
which
law
schools
had
the
lowest
acceptance
rates?
There’s
a
ranking
for
that,
of
course.
According
to
U.S.
News,
the
average
acceptance
rate
in
fall
2022
was
41
percent.
Among
the
schools
with
the
lowest
acceptance
rates,
the
average
rate
was
much
lower,
at
11
percent.
As
you
may
have
guessed,
the
law
schools
with
the
lowest
acceptance
rates
are
some
of
the
usual
suspects,
the
elite
schools
found
at
the
tippy
top
of
the
U.S.
News
rankings.
Please
feel
free
to
check
them
out
below,
courtesy
of
U.S.
News.
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Yale Law School (CT) |
4,129 |
236 |
6% |
1 (tie) |
||||
|
Stanford Law School (CA) |
4,882 |
336 |
7% |
1 (tie) |
||||
|
Boston College Law School (MA) |
6,022 |
612 |
10% |
29 (tie) |
||||
|
Harvard Law School (MA) |
8,170 |
822 |
10% |
5 (tie) |
||||
|
University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School |
6,816 |
664 |
10% |
4 |
||||
|
Duke University School of Law (NC) |
6,250 |
671 |
11% |
5 (tie) |
||||
|
Columbia Law School (NY) |
7,972 |
951 |
12% |
8 (tie) |
||||
|
University of California, Berkeley School of Law |
6,722 |
838 |
12% |
10 (tie) |
||||
|
University of Southern California Gould School of Law |
5,867 |
745 |
13% |
16 (tie) |
||||
|
University of Virginia School of Law |
6,031 |
777 |
13% |
8 (tie) |
||||
|
University of Chicago Law School (IL) |
5,246 |
747 |
14% |
3 |
||||
|
University of Michigan—Ann Arbor Law School |
6,253 |
845 |
14% |
10 (tie) |
Ten
of
the
12
law
schools
with
the
lowest
acceptance
rates
fall
within
the
top
of
the
most
recent
U.S.
News
rankings,
with
USC
(#16)
and
Boston
College
(tied
at
#29)
sneaking
in
to
complete
the
list.
Some
of
the
top
14
schools
that
didn’t
make
the
cut
here
were
Northwestern,
UCLA,
NYU,
and
Cornell,
with
acceptance
rates
of
15.05
percent,
15.50
percent,
15.65
percent,
and
17.44
percent,
respectively.
Where
does
your
law
school
stand
when
it
comes
to
its
acceptance
rate?
Check
out
your
school’s
most
recent Standard
509
Report to
find
out.
12
Law
Schools
That
Are
Hardest
to
Get
Into
[U.S.
News]
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