Law school
Boston University School of Law
Boston, MA
#24 in U.S. News & World Report Best Law Schools (2026-27)
Published admissions data for the Fall 2025 entering class, 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
- 170
- Median GPA
- 3.88
- Admit rate
- 12.1%
- Entering class
- 234
- Applications
- 7,892
- Admitted
- 953
Source: BU Law — 2025 Standard 509 Information Report (Fall 2025 entering class / Class of 2028) · Fall 2025 entering class
How competitive is BU Law?
Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.
For the Fall 2025 entering class, BU Law reported a median LSAT of 170 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.88.
Its published LSAT band runs 164 / 170 / 171: the 25th percentile sits six points below the median and the 75th sits one point above it.
BU Law admitted 953 applicants from 7,892 applications, an admit rate of 12.1%.
234 students enrolled.
What LSAT and GPA do you need for BU Law?
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 164 · median 170 · 75th 171.
Published GPA: 25th 3.71 · median 3.88 · 75th 3.93.
Percentiles: American Bar Association Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 entering class
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Two numbers only. The full analysis also weighs your softs, your residency, your application round and when you submit.
2026–27 application timeline
Dates the school publishes for this cycle, in the order they fall.
- Application opensSeptember 1
- Need-based aid priority deadlineMarch 1
- Regular decision deadlineApril 1
Source: BU School of Law — Dates, Deadlines & Fees · verified August 29, 2026
Essay prompts
2026–27 cycle, quoted from the school. Never summarised, never behind a control.
Personal Statement
Required · about 2 pages
Your personal statement should discuss the significant personal, social, or academic experiences that have contributed to your decision to study law. Most personal statements are approximately two pages long. Please double-space your personal statement.
Source: BU Law — JD Application Instructions
Optional Essay
2 pages
In addition to your personal statement, you may wish to provide an optional essay. Consistent with the American Bar Association, Boston University School of Law believes that knowledge about bias, cross-cultural competency (ability to understand people from different backgrounds and engage with them effectively), and racism are central to the legal profession. Please tell us how your education, training, or lived experience has deepened your knowledge about "bias, cross-cultural competency, and racism" and/or prepared you to explore these topics at BU Law. Most optional essays are no longer than two pages double-spaced.
Source: BU Law — JD Application Instructions
Class of 2025 employment outcomes
Reported by the school to the American Bar Association, about ten months after graduation.
- Employed in a professional position96.7%207 of 214 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 required92.1%197 of 214 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+ attorneys41.1%88 of 214 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 clerkship1.4%3 of 214 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
- BU Law — 2025 Standard 509 Information Report (Fall 2025 entering class / Class of 2028) — American Bar Association
- BU School of Law — Dates, Deadlines & Fees — Boston University School of Law
- BU Law — JD Application Instructions — Boston University School of Law
- Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report
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