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St. John's University School of Law

Queens, NY

#62 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
164
Median GPA
3.81
Admit rate
23.1%
Entering class
241
Applications
4,417
Admitted
1,018

Source: St. John's University School of Law — 2025 Standard 509 Information Report (Fall 2025 entering class, Class of 2028) · Fall 2025 entering class

How competitive is St. John's?

Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.

For the Fall 2025 entering class, St. John's reported a median LSAT of 164 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.81.

Its published LSAT band runs 156 / 164 / 166: the 25th percentile sits eight points below the median and the 75th sits two points above it.

St. John's admitted 1,018 applicants from 4,417 applications.

241 students enrolled.

What LSAT and GPA do you need for St. John's?

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 156 · median 164 · 75th 166.

GPA

Published GPA: 25th 3.44 · median 3.81 · 75th 3.91.

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. Regular decision priority deadlineMarch 15
  2. Regular decision final deadlineJuly 15

Source: St. John's University School of Law — J.D. Admissions · 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

Please submit a personal statement or short essay with your application. Include your LSAC account number on it. You may write about any topic you wish. Suggested topics: Your decision to pursue a career in law; your reaction to a recent current affairs event; your feelings about a particular community service or extracurricular activity with which you have been involved. The suggested length is two typed pages, double spaced.

Source: St. John's University School of Law — J.D. Admissions

Supplementary Statement (Optional)

We recognize that some applicants have faced and overcome challenges and that there may be factors that have been significant in their lives, identity, and/or development. For this optional essay, we invite you to share any information that you would like us to consider about your experiences. This may include socioeconomic challenges; educational challenges; societal challenges; discrimination; prejudice; health issues; disability; immigration status; surviving abuse; or complex family circumstances like an incarcerated parent, homelessness, living in foster care, or others. This isn't an inclusive list, but simply an opportunity, if you wish, to share any additional aspects of your background that may give us a deeper sense of your strengths and who you are.

Source: St. John's University School of Law — J.D. Admissions

Additional Merit Aid Statement (Optional)

St. John's Law awards scholarships to outstanding applicants for academic achievement and for merit based on the factors aligned with our mission that we consider during our holistic review. This can include awards for one or more of the following factors: first generation college students, applicants who have faced adversity and are committed to their community, and those whose background and/or interest in law school align with the school’s mission and the legacy of our alumnus, Theodore Jones '72. This is not an exhaustive list, and the statement should be aligned with St. John's University School of Law's mission.

Source: St. John's University School of Law — J.D. Admissions

General Addendum (Optional)

If you would like to further explain portions of your application including, but not limited to, gaps in education, gaps in employment, undergraduate performance, or LSAT performance, you may submit an addendum.

Source: St. John's University School of Law — J.D. Admissions

Class of 2025 employment outcomes

Reported by the school to the American Bar Association, about ten months after graduation.

  • Employed in a professional position94.0%234 of 249 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 required90.8%226 of 249 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+ attorneys22.9%57 of 249 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 clerkship3.2%8 of 249 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.

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