Law school

New York University School of Law

New York, NY

#7 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
172
Median GPA
3.92
Admit rate
13.4%
Entering class
452
Applications
10,575
Admitted
1,412

Sources: NYU Law — Entering Class Profile and Statistics (Class of 2028); NYU Law — 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 entering class

How competitive is NYU?

Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.

For the Fall 2025 entering class, NYU reported a median LSAT of 172 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.92.

Its published LSAT band runs 169 / 172 / 174: the 25th percentile sits three points below the median and the 75th sits two points above it.

NYU admitted 1,412 applicants from 10,575 applications, an admit rate of 13.4%.

452 students enrolled.

What LSAT and GPA do you need for NYU?

The ABA reports where the entering class landed — three percentiles, not a cut-off. No score is required, and none guarantees anything.

LSAT

Published LSAT: 25th 169 · median 172 · 75th 174.

GPA

Published GPA: 25th 3.81 · median 3.92 · 75th 3.97.

Percentiles: American Bar Association Standard 509 Information Report · Fall 2025 entering class

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2026–27 application timeline

Dates the school publishes for this cycle, in the order they fall.

  1. Application opensSeptember 1
  2. Early decision deadlineNovember 15
  3. Named scholarship deadlineDecember 1
  4. Regular decision deadlineFebruary 15

Source: NYU Law — JD Application FAQ (fall 2027 admissions) · verified August 29, 2026

Essay prompts

2026–27 cycle, quoted from the school. Never summarised, never behind a control.

Personal Statement

Required

While the Committee on Admissions does not use interviews as part of the regular selection process, we would like to give you the opportunity to include more information about yourself than the application form conveys. Because people and their interests vary, we leave the content and length of your statement to your discretion. You may wish to bring to our attention additional information that provides an understanding of your qualifications, goals, and potential to contribute to the NYU Law community.

Source: New York University School of Law — JD application requirements

Supplying Additional Information

Optional

New York University School of Law seeks to enroll a student body from a broad spectrum of society. The Committee on Admissions encourages you to provide any information that may be helpful to us in reaching a thoughtful decision on your application. While the choice as to whether and what information to submit to the committee is entirely yours, any information you provide will be used to give the Committee a more complete understanding of your background: to help the committee reach an informed decision on your application, and to aid the Committee in selecting a student body with a range of experiences. This is an opportunity to share with the Committee information about how your background will enable you to contribute to the NYU Law community. Information that has been helpful in the past includes, but is not limited to, meaningful leadership experience; significant community involvement; personal/family history or educational or socioeconomic disadvantage or unusual circumstance which may have affected academic performance and how you excelled despite those circumstance; and the skills you have developed to overcome adversity. This list is not all-inclusive, but we offer it for you to think about as you consider whether such information might be relevant in your case, and to assure you that it is quite appropriate. If you choose to provide additional information, please upload this information in the attachment section of the application, and clearly identify your submission accordingly.

Source: New York University 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 position99.3%414 of 417 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.

    ABA Employment Summary

  • Bar admission required98.1%409 of 417 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.

    ABA Employment Summary

  • Firms of 501+ attorneys62.1%259 of 417 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.

    ABA Employment Summary

  • Federal clerkship5.5%23 of 417 graduates

    Federal clerkships / total graduates. Excludes state, local, territorial, tribal and international clerkships.

    ABA Employment Summary

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

  1. NYU Law — Entering Class Profile and Statistics (Class of 2028) — New York University School of Law
  2. NYU Law — 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report — American Bar Association
  3. NYU Law — JD Application FAQ (fall 2027 admissions) — New York University School of Law
  4. New York University School of Law — JD application requirements — New York University School of Law
  5. Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report

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