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Harvard Law School

Rank 4 (USNWR 2024)
174
Median LSAT
3.93
Median GPA
9.6%
Acceptance rate

Also known as

  • Harvard Law School
  • Harvard University
  • HARVARD UNIVERSITY
  • HLS

Harvard Law School is a law school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school was ranked 4 in 2024 by USNWR. Annual enrollment for Harvard Law School is approximately 563.

Admissions website: https://hls.harvard.edu/dept/jdadmissions/

Admissions email: jdadmiss@law.harvard.edu

Admissions phone: 617-495-1551

Can I get into Harvard Law School with aGPA andLSAT?

Harvard Law School Key Statistics

Previous year ABA 509 data
Percentiles 25 50 75
LSAT 171 174 176
GPA 3.84 3.93 3.99
Miscellaneous Count Percentile
# Applications 8334 99
# Admissions offers 798 -
Class size 563 100
% Accepted 9.6% 99
% Yield 57.0% 98

During the 2024 application cycle, 8,334 people applied and 798 were offered admission.

Harvard University has a 1L class size of 563, and yield of 57.02%. 455 out of 798 applicants who were offered admission accepted, meaning that 57.02% of the people who were offered admission ended up attending the school.

The 1L class at Harvard University has a median LSAT of 174. The 25th percentile LSAT is 171 and the 75th percentile LSAT is 176.

The median GPA is 3.93. The 25th percentile GPA is 3.84 and the 75th percentile GPA is 3.99.

Harvard Law School LSAT & GPA graph for 2023-2024

LSD has stats for 1,949 applicants for the 2023-2024 application cycle.

The graphs show applicant results plotted against GPA and LSAT. The dotted lines on the graphs represent the 25/50/75th percentiles reported by the school in their ABA 509 report from the previous year.

Each data point represents an LSD user that shared their application results for the benefit of future applicants.

Click on a data point to see that user's profile.

25th, 50th, 75th refer to percentiles from last year's admitted class

How much does Harvard Law School cost per year?

$75,008.00
Tuition
95th percentile
$110,930.00
CoA
97th percentile
98.50%
Bar pass rate
93rd percentile

*The following data belongs to previous years.

Cost of attending Harvard Law School

In 2024, tuition was $75,008 and the annual cost of attending was $110,930 (tuition plus living expenses).

Cost of Attendance (CoA) is the estimated total amount you will have to spend every year to go to school. Unlike tuition, CoA includes expenses like rent, food, and insurance.

Harvard Law School employment outcomes

98.5% of Harvard University graduates pass the bar on their first try.

Some interesting facts about Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School provides amazing opportunities to study law and related disciplines in a rigorous but collaborative environment. Due to its large enrollment and faculty size, Harvard is distinguished by its unparalleled breadth and depth of courses and clinics, its wide array of research programs, its diverse student body drawn from around the world, and its extensive network of highly respected alumni. Beyond the law school, law students can tap into Harvard University’s extraordinary resources through cross registration and a variety of social and cultural activities.

Harvard Law School’s faculty members are engaged in cutting-edge research and generate the most important publications across the legal curriculum, playing an unsurpassed role in influencing jurists and policy makers.

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