Law school
University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
Honolulu, HI
#91 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, the school's own essay prompts and the ABA employment outcomes it reports.
Admissions profile
- Median LSAT
- 158
- Median GPA
- 3.62
- Admit rate
- 26.2%
- Entering class
- 140
- Applications
- 1,654
- Admitted
- 434
Source: Richardson Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025) · Fall 2025 entering class
How competitive is Hawaii?
Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.
For the Fall 2025 entering class, Hawaii reported a median LSAT of 158 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.62.
Its published LSAT band runs 155 / 158 / 162: the 25th percentile sits three points below the median and the 75th sits four points above it.
Hawaii admitted 434 applicants from 1,654 applications, an admit rate of 26.2%.
140 students enrolled.
What LSAT and GPA do you need for Hawaii?
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 155 · median 158 · 75th 162.
Published GPA: 25th 3.40 · median 3.62 · 75th 3.80.
Percentiles: American Bar Association Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 entering class
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Essay prompts
2026–27 cycle, quoted from the school. Never summarised, never behind a control.
Personal Statement
Required · 500 words
Personal Statement : Compose a 500-word personal statement on a subject of your choice. Many applicants write about their goals, achievements, influences, and their interest in our Law School.
Source: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law — JD application requirements
Why Richardson?
Required
Why Richardson? Please tell us why you would like to study at our Law School in approximately 250 words.
Source: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law — JD application requirements
Résumé
Required
Résumé : Write a résumé detailing your education, extracurricular activity, professional experience, and community service.
Source: University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of 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 position92.9%91 of 98 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 required76.5%75 of 98 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+ attorneys0.0%0 of 98 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 clerkship3.1%3 of 98 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.
Not published for this school
Application deadlines
We haven't re-verified this school's current-cycle deadlines yet, so none are published here. Check the school's own admissions page for dates.
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
- Richardson Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025) — American Bar Association
- University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law — JD application requirements — University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
- Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report
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