Law school

UC Law San Francisco

San Francisco, CA

#85 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
161
Median GPA
3.71
Admit rate
27.5%
Entering class
380
Applications
4,593
Admitted
1,262

Source: Fall 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report — UC Law San Francisco · Fall 2025 entering class

How competitive is UC Law SF?

Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.

For the Fall 2025 entering class, UC Law SF reported a median LSAT of 161 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.71.

Its published LSAT band runs 158 / 161 / 163: the 25th percentile sits three points below the median and the 75th sits two points above it.

UC Law SF admitted 1,262 applicants from 4,593 applications, an admit rate of 27.5%.

380 students enrolled.

What LSAT and GPA do you need for UC Law SF?

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 158 · median 161 · 75th 163.

GPA

Published GPA: 25th 3.55 · median 3.71 · 75th 3.83.

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 deadlineApril 15

Source: UC Law SF — J.D. How to Apply · verified August 29, 2026

Essay prompts

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

Personal Statement

Required

Personal Statement – There is no limit as to the length of the required personal statement, but it will be evaluated for clarity, content, and skill of presentation. While there is no required topic, it is to your advantage to convey information and views that you feel are important and that you believe should be weighed in the consideration of your application for admission, including your specific interest in UC Law SF.

Source: UC Law SF — J.D. How to Apply

Class of 2025 employment outcomes

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

  • Employed in a professional position94.9%336 of 354 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 required88.1%312 of 354 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%81 of 354 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 clerkship0.0%0 of 354 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. Fall 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report — UC Law San Francisco — American Bar Association
  2. UC Law SF — J.D. How to Apply — UC Law San Francisco
  3. Best Law Schools (2026-27) — U.S. News & World Report

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