Law school
Temple University Beasley School of Law
Philadelphia, PA
#49 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
- 165
- Median GPA
- 3.76
- Admit rate
- 24.4%
- Entering class
- 237
- Applications
- 3,043
- Admitted
- 742
Source: Temple University Beasley School of Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025) · Fall 2025 entering class
How competitive is Temple?
Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.
For the Fall 2025 entering class, Temple reported a median LSAT of 165 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.76.
Its published LSAT band runs 162 / 165 / 168: the 25th percentile sits three points below the median and the 75th sits three points above it.
Temple admitted 742 applicants from 3,043 applications, an admit rate of 24.4%.
237 students enrolled.
What LSAT and GPA do you need for Temple?
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 162 · median 165 · 75th 168.
Published GPA: 25th 3.59 · median 3.76 · 75th 3.90.
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 15
Source: Temple Law — J.D. Application Procedure · verified August 29, 2026
Essay prompts
2026–27 cycle, quoted from the school. Never summarised, never behind a control.
Personal Statement
Required
All applicants are required to submit a personal statement with the application. It is up to you to decide what you want to write about and how you want to express your thoughts. This is your opportunity to present yourself, your background, your experiences, and your ideas to the Admissions Committee. You may want to write about your intellectual interests, your career goals, your achievements, your family background, or your involvement in your community.
Source: Temple Law — J.D. Application Procedure
Sp.A.C.E. Statement
Optional
We invite all applicants to share with us your personal history, highlighting for the committee how your unique life experience has been enriched or made more difficult by opportunities, circumstances, and obstacles. This information will assist the Admissions Committee in fully evaluating your candidacy.
Source: Temple Law — J.D. Application Procedure
Addenda
Optional
A personal statement is required of all applicants and additional statements may be used to expand or explain in greater detail the answers submitted on the application form.
Source: Temple Law — J.D. Application Procedure
Resume
Optional
While resumes are not required, you are strongly encouraged to submit one as part of your application materials. Your resume does not have to be limited to one page. Do not leave out any of your work history because you feel that it is not relevant to the legal field.
Source: Temple Law — J.D. Application Procedure
Class of 2025 employment outcomes
Reported by the school to the American Bar Association, about ten months after graduation.
- Employed in a professional position95.9%187 of 195 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 required88.7%173 of 195 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+ attorneys16.9%33 of 195 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 clerkship2.6%5 of 195 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
- Temple University Beasley School of Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025) — American Bar Association
- Temple Law — J.D. Application Procedure — Temple University Beasley School of Law
- Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report
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