Law school
Baylor Law School
Waco, TX
#34 in U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools (2026-27)
Published admissions data for the Fall 2025 / quarterly entering classes (Class of 2028), an estimate of where your own numbers land, this cycle's deadlines, the school's own essay prompts and the ABA employment outcomes it reports.
Admissions profile
- Median LSAT
- 164
- Median GPA
- 3.77
- Admit rate
- 20.6%
- Entering class
- 165
- Applications
- 3,658
- Admitted
- 753
Source: Baylor University School of Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025) · Fall 2025 / quarterly entering classes (Class of 2028)
How competitive is Baylor?
Reported for the Fall 2025 / quarterly entering classes (Class of 2028).
For the Fall 2025 / quarterly entering classes (Class of 2028), Baylor reported a median LSAT of 164 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.77.
Its published LSAT band runs 159 / 164 / 165: the 25th percentile sits five points below the median and the 75th sits one point above it.
Baylor admitted 753 applicants from 3,658 applications, an admit rate of 20.6%.
165 students enrolled.
What LSAT and GPA do you need for Baylor?
The ABA reports where the entering class landed — three percentiles, not a cut-off. No score is required, and none guarantees anything.
Published LSAT: 25th 159 · median 164 · 75th 165.
Published GPA: 25th 3.49 · median 3.77 · 75th 3.89.
Percentiles: American Bar Association Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 / quarterly entering classes (Class of 2028)
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2026–27 application timeline
Dates the school publishes for this cycle, in the order they fall.
- Early decision fall entry deadlineDecember 1
- Regular decision fall entry deadlineMarch 15
- Extended decision fall entry deadlineJuly 15
Source: Baylor Law — Dates and Deadlines · verified August 29, 2026
Essay prompts
2026–27 cycle, quoted from the school. Never summarised, never behind a control.
Personal Statement
Required · about 3 pages
Each applicant must submit a personal statement, which should be approximately two to three pages in length, double-spaced, and in 12-point font. The personal statement must be your own work product, although others (e.g., your pre-law advisor) may review it and offer guidance. You may not use generative artificial intelligence to write your personal statement. This is your opportunity to persuade the Admissions Committee that you should be admitted to Baylor Law. Through the personal statement, the Committee will try to get a sense of your character and will evaluate your writing ability. Any number of factors could be helpful to the Admissions Committee, including your motivation to study law; past work experience and future career objectives; evidence of academic achievement, leadership, and responsibility; community involvement; educational, social, and economic background; and any special skills or training, such as language skills, advocacy skills, or scientific or technical training. The Committee is particularly interested in learning about any aspect of your background that would allow you to distinctively enrich our community. The Admissions Committee places considerable importance on the personal statement.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Résumé
Required
You must submit a résumé with your application. It is not limited to one page or to your educational background and professional experience and should also highlight volunteer activities, leadership experience, and special skills.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Response to Mission Statement
Optional · 1 page
Response to Mission Statement: You may submit an addendum in response to our mission statement (https://law.baylor.edu/why-baylor-law/about/mission-statement-and-core-values), discussing how your experiences and/or beliefs align with that mission statement.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Interest in Baylor Law
Optional · 1 page
Interest in Baylor Law: You may submit an addendum that explains your specific interest in Baylor Law.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Academic/LSAT Context
Optional · 1 page
Academic/LSAT Context: You may submit an addendum that discusses aspects of your academic background or LSAT performance that you believe are not otherwise clear from your application.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Adversity
Optional · 1 page
Adversity: You may submit an addendum that describes instances in your life when you have overcome significant adversity. Relevant information may include, but is not limited to: financial hardship; educational adversity (including first-generation college status); physical, mental, or psychological differences; an unusual rural or urban upbringing; foreign residence; military background; or unique family and/or personal circumstances.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Other Obligations
Optional · 1 page
Other Obligations: You may submit an addendum that discusses other family responsibilities, parenting or caregiving, cultural or religious roles or obligations, or other activities that may not appear on a resume but were taking place while you were in school or working.
Source: Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements
Class of 2025 employment outcomes
Reported by the school to the American Bar Association, about ten months after graduation.
- Employed in a professional position98.2%108 of 110 graduates
Bar-admission-required + J.D.-advantage + professional-position + law-school-funded jobs / total graduates, about ten months after graduation. Excludes the ABA's non-professional 'Other Position', 'Undeterminable', and 'Start Date After' rows, so it reads lower than a school's headline employment figure.
- Bar admission required96.4%106 of 110 graduates
Jobs requiring bar admission / total graduates. The ABA's Bar Admission Required/Anticipated row only — J.D. Advantage is a different measure and is NOT added to it.
- Firms of 501+ attorneys11.8%13 of 110 graduates
Jobs at law firms of 501+ attorneys / total graduates. Exactly the ABA's 501+ band — not 251+, not 100+, not a private-practice share.
- Federal clerkship7.3%8 of 110 graduates
Federal clerkships / total graduates. Excludes state, local, territorial, tribal and international clerkships.
Share of the whole graduating class, counting every position the ABA reports (full- or part-time, long- or short-term), measured about ten months after graduation.
Sources and methodology
Last verified September 1, 2026.
Where each figure comes from
- Admissions figures
- Percentiles, admit rate and class size as reported to the American Bar Association under Standard 509, or published by the school in its own class profile. The source for each figure is linked beside it.
- Deadlines and essay prompts
- Taken from the school's own current-cycle application instructions and quoted exactly. A date or a prompt we have not re-verified for this cycle is withheld rather than carried over from last year.
- Employment outcomes
- Counts from the school's ABA Employment Summary for the class year shown, over one denominator: every graduate. The share is those two counts divided, and both are printed so it can be checked.
- Chance estimate
- Litigator One's own model, not school-published data and not a prediction of a decision. It reads your two numbers against this school's published percentiles and its overall admit rate.
Cited on this page
- Baylor University School of Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025) — American Bar Association
- Baylor Law — Dates and Deadlines — Baylor Law School
- Baylor Law — JD Application Requirements — Baylor Law School
- Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report
Other schools on Litigator
Schools in TX, and others at a nearby published rank.