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This Is the Hardest American Law School to Get Into

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In the United States, many lawyers earn over $180,000 a year, which makes it among the highest-paying jobs in the country. Some pay much more. Michelman & Robinson, one of the most successful U.S. law firms, pays its high-level associates (who are not even partners) an average of $450,000.

Compared to most jobs, the road to becoming a lawyer is a long one. Most go to a four-year college and then three years of law school. People who want to become practicing attorneys usually have to pass the bar in each state where they practice. Those who join large law firms start as associates. The wait to become a partner can be over five years, and some never make that level.
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The barrier to getting into the best law schools, which is where the most successful lawyers generally go, is a high one. To determine the hardest law school to get into, 24/7 Wall St. created an index based on three measures of selectivity from the American Bar Association:

  • Acceptance rate, or the number of offer letters a school sent in fall 2021 as a share of the number of applications
  • Median LSAT score of newly enrolled students in fall 2021
  • Median undergraduate GPA of newly enrolled students

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We also reviewed the share of students in the class of 2018 who took the bar exam within two years of graduation and passed.

Law-school graduates are among the most powerful people in society. Twenty-six of our 46 presidents have been lawyers. Of the current nine Supreme Court justices, only Amy Coney Barrett did not attend an Ivy League law school.

Those Ivy League institutions are well represented among the best law schools. Of the 10 law schools with the lowest acceptance rates, in fact, eight are private. The two public ones are the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan.

The hardest law school to get into is Yale Law School. Here are the details:

  • Acceptance rate: 4.1%
  • Applications for fall 2021: 5,194
  • Median undergrad GPA of new enrollees: 3.94
  • Median LSAT score of new enrollees: 174 out of 180
  • Bar exam passage rate: 99%

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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