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U-M Application Statistics

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Fall 2020 Law School Data

Applicant Profiles & Overall Admissions Statistics

  • The average UM applicant had a 3.51 GPA and an LSAT score of 161.6
  • 75% of applicants took at least one year off before applying
  • U-M applicants applied to an average of 9 schools and were accepted into an average of 3
  • 86.7% of applicants matriculated to law school 
    • Total number of applicants:  449
    • Number of applicants accepted to one or more schools: 384
    • Number of applicants that matriculated to law school: 333
  • 33.9% of applicants matriculated to a Top 20 law school
  • 41.25% matriculated to a Top 25 law school

Top 5 Schools, Applications

  • Michigan: 237
  • Georgetown:  182
  • NYU:  146
  • George Washington:  138
  • Northwestern:  132

Top 10 Schools, Admits

  • Wayne State - 61
  • George Washington - 59
  • Michigan State - 53
  • Michigan - 50
  • Fordham - 39
  • Boston University - 37
  • Boston College - 37
  • Loyola Chicago - 36
  • Georgetown - 31
  • Cardozo - 31

Top 5 Schools, Matriculants

  • Michigan:  28
  • Wayne State:  21
  • Fordham:  16
  • George Washington:  13
  • Georgetown:  12

Matriculants by Law School Ranking (US News)

School Ranking Number Matriculated
Yale 1 0
Stanford 2 3
Harvard 3 4
Columbia 4 4
University of Chicago 4 2
NYU 6 8
Penn 7 3
Virginia 8 4
Northwestern 9 6
UC Berkeley 9 3
Michigan 9 28
Duke 12 1
Cornell 13 1
Georgetown 14 12
UCLA 15 4
Texas 16 2
Washington University, St. Louis 17 2
USC 18 7
Vanderbilt 18 4
Boston University 20 4
Minnesota 21 2
Notre Dame 22 5
George Washington 23 13
Arizona State 24 0
Emory 24 1
Florida 24 1

*Rankings are from US News for 2021, ranked in 2020

** 102 of 301 applicants (33.9%) matriculated to a Top 20 law school

*** 124 of 301 applicants (41.2%) matriculated to a Top 25 law school

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