Law school

UCLA School of Law

Los Angeles, CA

#13 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
171
Median GPA
3.95
Admit rate
12.0%
Entering class
330
Applications
8,671
Admitted
1,039

Sources: UCLA School of Law — Standard 509 Information Report (2025); UCLA Law — J.D. Class of 2028 Profile · Fall 2025 entering class

How competitive is UCLA?

Reported for the Fall 2025 entering class.

For the Fall 2025 entering class, UCLA reported a median LSAT of 171 and a median undergraduate GPA of 3.95.

Its published LSAT band runs 166 / 171 / 172: the 25th percentile sits five points below the median and the 75th sits one point above it.

UCLA admitted 1,039 applicants from 8,671 applications, an admit rate of 12.0%.

330 students enrolled.

What LSAT and GPA do you need for UCLA?

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 166 · median 171 · 75th 172.

GPA

Published GPA: 25th 3.73 · median 3.95 · 75th 4.00.

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 priority deadlineNovember 16
  3. Achievement Fellowship deadlineDecember 15
  4. Regular decision deadlineFebruary 1

Source: UCLA Law — First-Year J.D. Applicants (Fall 2027 application procedures) · verified August 29, 2026

Essay prompts

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

Personal statement

Required · 2 pages

Personal statement (use an electronic attachment). - Separate essay not to exceed two double-spaced typed pages. - No less than 11-point font. - Discuss any matters relevant to your ability to succeed in law school and the practice of law, and any attributes, experiences, or interests that would enable you to make a distinctive contribution to UCLA Law or the legal profession.

Source: UCLA Law — First-Year J.D. Applicants (Fall 2027 application procedures)

Class of 2025 employment outcomes

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

  • Employed in a professional position97.3%323 of 332 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 required94.3%313 of 332 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+ attorneys54.8%182 of 332 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 clerkship3.9%13 of 332 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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