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J.D. Admissions Statistics

Profile of the 2007 Entering Class

Applicants: 2585 
Admitted: 587
Enrolled: 183
Median GPA: 3.63, Range: 3.01 – 4.10
Median LSAT: 162 (87th percentile), Range: 149 - 179
Women: 66%
Students of Color: 25%
Median Age: 25; Range: 20 - 51; 14% are 30+
WA Residents: 54%
Graduate degrees: 16% (2 PhDs)
Foreign Students: 4 (China-2, Canada-2)

Bar Passage Information

The following are the passage rates for graduates taking the Washington summer bar exam for the first time.

July 2007: 87%
July 2006: 85.2%
July 2005: 86.6%
July 2004: 90%

LSAT Score and GPA Ranges of 2007 J.D. Applicants

The first figure in each cell represents the number of admission offers made, and the number after the slash represents the total number of applications reviewed. For example, 38/108 in the second row, fifth column, indicates that of the 108 people who applied with a GPA between 3.50 and 3.74 and an LSAT score between 163-165, 38 were offered admission. This data represents 100 percent of all applications reviewed with scores on the 180 test scale. This chart should not be used as a gauge of the likelihood of admission, and certainly not as a guarantee.

GPA RANGE Average LSAT Score
20-153 154-156 157-159 160-162 163-165 166-168 169-180 Total
3.75+ 10/67 15/65 20/102 43/123 40/86 70/70 51/52 249/565
3.5-3.74 4/99 12/93 27/157 38/171 38/108 40/77 48/53 207/758
3.25-3.49 2/116 3/84 12/108 15/101 18/84 17/65 29/48 96/606
3.00-3.24 0/92 0/46 1/45 4/57 3/41 2/32 7/16 17/329
2.75-2.99 0/52 0/19 0/27 1/16 2/12 0/8 1/9 4/143
2.50-2.74 0/31 0/6 0/8 0/8 0/5 0/4 1/4 1/66
0.10-2.48 0/17 0/1 0/5 0/1 0/0 0/1 1/2 1/27
LSAT only 0/20 0/11 2/12 4/10 3/8 2/3 1/1 12/65
Total 16/494 30/325 62/464 105/487 104/344 131/260 139/185 587/2559

This information is presented to give applicants some idea of the likelihood of admission. It should be noted, however, that these data can and do change from year to year. In addition, there is some latitude within each category, so that a person presenting credentials at the upper limits of one cell might have an excellent chance for admission, while another applicant at the lower limits might only have a marginal chance. For these reasons, this chart should be used as an approximate gauge of the likelihood of admission and NOT as a guarantee.

Undergraduate Institutions of the 2007 Entering Class

Arizona State University (3)
Augustana College
Bard College
Barnard College - Columbia Univ.
Bernard Baruch College-CUNY
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University (2)
Brown University(3)
Carleton College
Chaminade University of Honolulu
Colorado State University
Columbia University (3)
Cornell University (2)
Emory University(2)
Evergreen State College (2)
Florida State University
Fudan University (China)
George Washington University (2)
Georgetown University
Gonzaga University
Harvard College (2)
Haverford College
Hawaii Pacific University
Hendrix College
Ithaca College
Lewis & Clark College (2)
Loyola Marymount University
Macalester College
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Middlebury College (2)
Mount Holyoke College
Nanjing University (China)
New York University (2)
Northwestern University (3)
Oberlin College (3)
Oregon State University
Pacific Lutheran University
Pomona College
Rutgers University
Santa Clara University
St. Louis Univerisity
Seattle University (3)
Smith College (3)

Stanford University (6)
Sun Yat-Sen University (China)
Tufts University (2)
US Coast Guard Academy (2)
US Military Academy (3)
University of Alaska-Anchorage (2)
University of Arizona (3)
University of California-Berkeley (4)
University of California-Davis
University of California-Los Angeles (5)
University of Colorado - Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Idaho
University of Iowa
University of Miami
University of Minnesota
University of Oregon (2)
University of Pennsylvania (3)
University of Puget Sound
University of Regina (Canada)
University of San Diego
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California (3)
University of St. Andrews (Scotland)
University of Texas-Austin (3)
University of Toledo
University of Utah
University of Virginia (2)
University of Washington (32)
University of Wisconsin
Utah State University
Vanderbilt University
Vassar College (3)
Washington State University (2)
Washington University (2)
Wellesley College (2)
Wesleyan University (3)
Western Washington University (3)
Whitman College (4)
Willamette University (5)
Williams College
Wuhan University (China)


Number indicates the number of students matriculating from each school.