Among the 191 ranked law schools that submitted grade data to U.S. News in an annual survey, the average median GPA of entering law school students in 2021 was 3.55.

Among the 191 ranked law schools that submitted grade data to U.S. News in an annual survey, the average median GPA of entering law school students in 2021 was 3.55.

Second, law schools like to boast about the median GPA and LSAT score of incoming law students, which are also a minor factor in law school rankings. Third, grades and test scores are quantitative.

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Law schools see those students as safe bets, especially if their other application materials measure up. No pressure, but grades are perhaps the most important single factor in law school admissions.

Loyola Law School in Los Angeles is retroactively increasing all of its current students' grades. That C+ from last year is now a B-. Everybody's GPA just went up by 0.333. Magic!

However, Scott Altman, vice dean at USC’s law school, defended such changes. His school’s most recent revision, in 2008, increased the mean grade for first-year students from 3.2 to 3.3. That ...

50. University of Illinois > Fall 2022 acceptance rate: 34.7% > Applications for fall 2022: 2,035 > Median undergrad GPA of new enrollees: 3.71 out of 4.0 > Median LSAT score of new enrollees: 166 ...

How to Address a Low GPA in Law School Applications originally appeared on usnews.com. Update 02/06/23: This article was published at an earlier date and has been updated with new information.