Easiest Law Schools to Get Into: Highest Acceptance Rates

Written by LawyerEDU.org Editorial Staff, Last Updated: November 11, 2026

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Acceptance rate on this page means offers divided by applications, as each school reported them to the American Bar Association (ABA) in its Standard 509 Information Report for fall 2025, published in December 2025. You can look up any school’s report on the ABA’s required disclosures site. Easier admission usually comes with a lower median LSAT score, and many of these schools pass the bar at lower rates than the ABA’s benchmark, so read the two numbers together.

How We Chose These Schools

Acceptance rate alone decides who makes this list and in what order. Every figure comes from the ABA, and every school name and city comes from the school itself.

• Who we considered: All 196 ABA-approved law schools included in the fall 2025 reporting cycle, meaning every school that filed a Standard 509 Information Report, including the three in Puerto Rico.
• The cutoff: A school made the list if it reported an acceptance rate of 50% or higher for its fall 2025 entering class. Fifty-one did.
• The order: Highest reported acceptance rate first. Schools that reported the same rate share a rank. No other figure is weighted in.
• Admissions, LSAT, GPA and tuition: Each school’s fall 2025 Standard 509 report, published in December 2025.
• Conditional scholarships: The same 509 reports, which count awards to students who entered in 2024-25.
• Bar passage: The ABA’s 2026 first-time bar passage report, which covers bar exams taken in 2025.
• Tuition: Shown exactly as each school reported it, without fees. Schools that report only a per-credit rate are shown per credit, never converted to an annual figure.

We don’t adjust or estimate any figure. School names are current as of November 2026, so a few differ from the names in the ABA data, and this page notes each one. The list is independent of the sponsored school listings on this site. We update it when the ABA releases new data: 509 reports in mid-December and bar passage results in March.

The 51 Law Schools That Admitted at Least Half Their Applicants

These are the 51 ABA-approved law schools whose acceptance rate for the fall 2025 entering class was 50% or higher, sorted from highest to lowest. Schools with the same reported rate share a rank. The last column shows each school’s first-time bar passage rate for 2025 and, in parentheses, the ABA weighted average for the jurisdictions where its graduates took the exam.

The 25 Easiest Law Schools to Get Into, School by School

Every school here grants the J.D., the degree you need to sit for the bar exam in most states. Each profile uses the school’s fall 2025 Standard 509 report for admissions, tuition and conditional scholarships, and the ABA’s 2026 bar passage report for first-time results in 2025. Tuition is shown exactly as the school reported it, without fees.

What a High Acceptance Rate Does and Doesn’t Tell You

A high acceptance rate indicates how many applicants received an offer. It doesn’t tell you how a school’s graduates do on the bar exam, what you’ll pay, or whether a scholarship will last all three years. These four numbers fill in the rest. Getting in also says nothing about the workload once you’re there, which our guide to how hard law school is covers.

Median LSAT and GPA

Across all 196 ABA-approved schools that reported fall 2025 admissions, the middle value of the schools’ median LSAT scores was 159, and the middle value of their median undergraduate GPAs was 3.67. Of the 51 schools on this list, 47 had a median LSAT below 159. Their medians ran from 139 at Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico to 161 at Lewis & Clark Law School.

A median means that half the entering class scored at or below it, so you can be admitted with a score below a school’s median. Each 509 report also lists the 25th and 75th percentile scores, which show the range a school actually admits. If you haven’t taken the test yet, our LSAT guide covers how the exam is structured.

First-Time Bar Passage

The ABA compares each school’s first-time pass rate to a weighted average: the pass rate of graduates from all ABA-approved schools in each jurisdiction where that school’s graduates tested, weighted by how many of its graduates sat for the exam in each jurisdiction. A school whose graduates mostly test in a state with a low pass rate gets a lower benchmark. The ABA’s calendar-year first-time bar passage data includes graduates from earlier years who took the bar exam for the first time in 2025, not just members of the 2025 graduating class.

Of the 50 schools on this list with 2025 results, 37 fell below their weighted average. Thirteen matched or beat it: Louisville, St. Thomas University (Miami), Mississippi Christian, Liberty, Saint Louis, Oregon, UA Little Rock, Lewis & Clark, Toledo, Montana, Gonzaga, Inter American University of Puerto Rico and Campbell. Wilmington University Farnan School of Law, listed in the ABA data under its former name, Wilmington University School of Law, had no first-time takers yet, since its first class entered in fall 2023. You can download the full results from the ABA’s legal education statistics page, and our page on pass rates in each state explains how results differ by jurisdiction. For what the test itself covers, see our bar exam guide.

Conditional Scholarships

A conditional scholarship is an award you keep only if you maintain a GPA or class rank above the minimum required to stay in good standing, as the ABA defines it. Of the 51 schools on this list, 21 report offering them. Each school’s 509 report shows how many it awarded and how many it reduced or eliminated after the first year. Barry University, for example, reported reducing or eliminating 148 of the 253 conditional scholarships it awarded to students entering in 2024-25. Our scholarship retention rankings compare how often each school reduced or eliminated these awards.

If a school offers you one, ask what GPA or class rank you’ll need to keep it, and check the school’s numbers before you accept.

Public vs. Private Cost

Sixteen of the 51 schools are public, and 35 are private. Public schools usually charge residents less: South Dakota reported $12,076 a year for residents and $32,184 for nonresidents. Among schools that report an annual figure, full-time tuition on this list ran from $11,338 at Southern University Law Center to $62,896 at New England Law Boston, before fees. Thirteen schools report tuition per credit only, so multiply by the number of credits you’ll take each year to compare them. To compare cost across every ABA-approved school, see our list of the lowest-tuition law schools.

How to Use This List When You Apply

Start with each school’s Standard 509 Information Report. The ABA requires every approved school to post one on its website by December 15 each year, and it lists the admissions, tuition, and scholarship figures used here, as well as the school’s application deadline and fee.

Apply to schools across a range of medians. Compare your LSAT score and GPA with each school’s 25th, 50th and 75th percentile figures rather than relying on the acceptance rate alone, since a school that admits most applicants may still turn down someone well below its 25th percentile.

Check fees and deadlines for your own cycle. In their fall 2025 reports, schools on this list charged application fees ranging from no fee to $75. Most listed a fall deadline between March 1 and August 1, a few admitted on a rolling basis, and some set a second deadline for a spring start. Those reports describe the last admissions cycle, so confirm the current figures on each school’s admissions page.

Before applying, confirm the school’s ABA approval status and check the bar admission requirements in the state where you intend to practice. Many states require graduation from an ABA-approved law school to qualify for the bar exam, but requirements vary by jurisdiction, and NCBE’s jurisdiction directory links to each one’s bar admission office. Every school on this list holds ABA approval, which you can confirm in our full list of ABA-approved law schools. Wilmington University Farnan School of Law received provisional ABA approval in February 2025. The ABA recognizes graduates of provisionally approved schools in the same manner as graduates of fully approved schools, although applicants must still meet the admission requirements of the jurisdiction where they apply.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the easiest law school to get into?

The University of Idaho College of Law had the highest acceptance rate of any ABA-approved law school for fall 2025, at 66.76%. Capital University Law School (65.90%) and Creighton University School of Law (64.54%) were next. Those rates come from each school’s ABA Standard 509 report.

What LSAT score do you need for the easiest law schools?

There’s no single cutoff, but most of these schools enroll students below the all-school median of 159. Among the 51 schools that admitted at least half their applicants in fall 2025, median LSAT scores ranged from 139 to 161, and 47 were below 159. Half of each entering class scored at or below the school’s median.

Are the easiest law schools still ABA-approved?

Yes. Every school on this list is ABA-approved because the list comes from the 509 data that ABA-approved schools report. Wilmington University Farnan School of Law holds provisional approval, granted in February 2025. ABA approval meets the legal education requirement in U.S. jurisdictions, but the rules of that jurisdiction govern eligibility for a particular bar exam and for admission to practice. Check with its bar admission office for current requirements, including any required exams and the character and fitness review, the check of your background and conduct that every applicant goes through.

Do easier law schools have lower bar passage rates?

Often, yes. Of the 50 schools on this list with 2025 bar results, 37 had first-time pass rates below the ABA weighted average in the jurisdictions where their graduates tested. Thirteen matched or beat it, and Campbell University’s 93.48% was the highest on the list.

What are the easiest public law schools to get into?

For fall 2025, the public law schools with the highest acceptance rates were the University of Idaho (66.76%), the University of Louisville (63.39%), the University of North Dakota (63.09%), the University of South Dakota (62.47%) and Northern Kentucky University (58.70%). Public schools usually charge residents less than nonresidents.

• Highest acceptance rate: The University of Idaho College of Law made offers to 66.76% of its applicants for fall 2025, and 51 of 196 ABA-approved schools admitted at least half of their applicants.
• Lower scores, not lower standards: 47 of the 51 schools had a median LSAT below the all-school median of 159, but every one is ABA-approved.
• Bar results vary: 37 of the 50 schools with 2025 results fell below the ABA weighted average, while 13 matched or beat it.
• Cost varies more than odds: Annual full-time tuition on this list ran from $11,338 to $62,896 before fees, and 21 schools offer conditional scholarships.
• Confirm before you apply: Check each school’s current 509 report and your state’s bar admission office, since the figures here describe fall 2025.

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