The 20 Easiest ABA-Accredited Law Schools to Get Into
| # | School | Acceptance rate | LSAT 25th / median | Median GPA | First-time bar pass | State average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Idaho | 66.8% | 149 / 153 | 3.54 | 68.4% | 78.4% |
| 2 | Capital | 65.9% | 148 / 151 | 3.44 | 72.2% | 80.4% |
| 3 | Creighton | 64.5% | 150 / 153 | 3.51 | 72.6% | 82.7% |
| 4 | Louisville (Brandeis) | 63.4% | 154 / 157 | 3.67 | 75.6% | 78.5% |
| 5 | North Dakota | 63.1% | 148 / 151 | 3.48 | 68.4% | 73.3% |
| 6 | South Dakota | 62.6% | 149 / 152 | 3.47 | 72.6% | 78.6% |
| 7 | Suffolk | 61.9% | 152 / 155 | 3.58 | 79.4% | 83.5% |
| 8 | Pontifical Catholic U. of Puerto Rico | 61.5% | 136 / 139 | 3.33 | 54.9% | 52.1% |
| 9 | Willamette | 61.4% | 151 / 154 | 3.48 | 66.7% | 75.2% |
| 10 | Roger Williams | 61.3% | 147 / 150 | 3.43 | 57.1% | 76.4% |
| 11 | New England Law (Boston) | 61.3% | 149 / 153 | 3.37 | 79.2% | 83.3% |
| 12 | Appalachian | 60.9% | 145 / 146 | 3.20 | 63.2% | 77.2% |
| 13 | Widener Commonwealth | 60.4% | 147 / 150 | 3.33 | 54.0% | 80.1% |
| 14 | St. Thomas (FL) | 60.2% | 150 / 152 | 3.42 | 80.9% | 72.7% |
| 15 | Mississippi College | 59.8% | 148 / 152 | 3.37 | 63.4% | 79.7% |
| 16 | Widener Delaware | 59.7% | 149 / 152 | 3.33 | 66.3% | 76.6% |
| 17 | Liberty | 58.8% | 151 / 154 | 3.54 | 84.8% | 77.8% |
| 18 | NKU Chase | 58.7% | 152 / 154 | 3.41 | 73.9% | 79.5% |
| 19 | Akron | 58.5% | 151 / 154 | 3.51 | 72.1% | 80.5% |
| 20 | Vermont | 58.5% | 148 / 152 | 3.25 | 64.9% | 76.5% |
Acceptance rates, LSAT and GPA figures are from each school's ABA Standard 509 disclosure for the class entering in fall 2025 — the most recent the ABA has published. Bar passage is the school's first-time pass rate from the ABA's 2025 bar passage report, against the weighted average of the jurisdictions where its graduates sat. Every school's full profile is on the law school acceptance rates page.
"Easy" Is Getting Rarer
This list is shorter than it used to be. In 2024, 67 ABA schools admitted at least half of their applicants; in 2025, 51 did. The cause is simple arithmetic: applications rose from 422,195 to 517,127 (+22%), while the number of offers schools made rose from about 135,100 to about 137,200. Seats did not grow with demand, so the same schools turned away a larger share of people.
The squeeze hit exactly the schools applicants use as safeties. Maine admitted 66.5% in 2024 and 37.3% in 2025 after its applications rose from 541 to 915; Washburn went from 73.1% to 46.4%. A school that was a near-certain admit for someone a year ahead of you may now be a coin flip. The full year-over-year picture is in is law school harder to get into now?
The Bar-Passage Check Most Lists Skip
An acceptance rate tells you how hard a school is to get into. It says nothing about where you end up. Of the 20 schools above, only three — St. Thomas (FL), Liberty and the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico — posted a first-time bar-passage rate at or above their state's average. At the other end, Widener Commonwealth admitted 60.4% of applicants while its graduates passed at 54.0% against an 80.1% state average.
A better shortlist combines the two. These are the 12 schools that admitted at least 45% of applicants in 2025 and matched or beat the bar-passage average for their jurisdiction:
| School | Acceptance rate | Median LSAT | Median GPA | First-time bar pass | State average |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pontifical Catholic U. of Puerto Rico | 61.5% | 139 | 3.33 | 54.9% | 52.1% |
| St. Thomas (FL) | 60.2% | 152 | 3.42 | 80.9% | 72.7% |
| Liberty | 58.8% | 154 | 3.54 | 84.8% | 77.8% |
| Saint Louis University | 56.4% | 157 | 3.61 | 84.0% | 81.9% |
| Oregon | 55.0% | 160 | 3.62 | 85.1% | 76.3% |
| Drake | 54.8% | 156 | 3.67 | 85.7% | 83.7% |
| Lewis & Clark | 54.7% | 161 | 3.59 | 85.0% | 75.0% |
| UNH Franklin Pierce | 52.0% | 155 | 3.50 | 79.5% | 79.2% |
| Montana | 51.4% | 156 | 3.64 | 82.1% | 80.7% |
| Campbell | 50.7% | 156 | 3.51 | 85.4% | 79.1% |
| University of Baltimore | 49.5% | 155 | 3.45 | 70.7% | 70.6% |
| UMKC | 45.9% | 156 | 3.65 | 84.1% | 82.2% |
Oregon and Lewis & Clark stand out: both admit more than half of applicants and beat their bar-passage average by nine to ten points, with median LSATs of 160 and 161. They are not low-LSAT schools — the acceptance rate is high because the applicant pool is regional, not because the bar for admission is low.
Is an "easy" school actually a safety for you?
A 60% acceptance rate is an average over every applicant. AdmitBase places your LSAT and GPA against each school's 25th, median and 75th percentiles from the 2025 class and sorts all 196 ABA schools into Safety, Target, Reach and Far Reach. Your top matches show instantly — no account needed.
Check my law school odds →The Easiest Law Schools by State
Most applicants search for an easy school near where they want to practise, and the answer varies a lot by state.
- California (17 schools): McGeorge (Pacific) (54.4%, median LSAT 156), Santa Clara (52.6%, median LSAT 159), California Western (46.9%, median LSAT 155). See California law schools.
- Florida (11 schools): St. Thomas (FL) (60.2%, median LSAT 152), Barry (55.9%, median LSAT 150), Nova Southeastern (47.3%, median LSAT 155). See Florida law schools.
- New York (15 schools): Touro (Fuchsberg) (45.6%, median LSAT 153), Pace (Haub) (44.1%, median LSAT 154), Brooklyn (44.0%, median LSAT 161). See New York law schools.
- Texas (10 schools): South Texas College of Law Houston (33.6%, median LSAT 155), Thurgood Marshall (TSU) (33.1%, median LSAT 150), St. Mary's (26.0%, median LSAT 153). See Texas law schools.
Texas is the outlier. No Texas law school admitted more than 33.6% of applicants in 2025, so there is no Texas school you can treat as an automatic safety on acceptance rate alone. South Texas College of Law Houston pairs the state's highest admit rate with a 91.1% first-time bar-passage rate against an 81.4% state average.
How to Use This List
Treat these schools as the safety layer of a list, not the whole list. Three rules:
- Be above the median, not just inside the range. At a school's 25th percentile you are an admissible applicant; at or above its median you are a typical one. That difference shows up in both admission odds and scholarship offers — see law school scholarships.
- Apply early. Most of these schools admit on a rolling basis, so seats and scholarship money are more plentiful in the fall than in late winter.
- Read the outcomes. Bar passage, employment and debt matter more than how easy the door was. Every school page on AdmitBase shows its bar-passage record next to its admissions numbers.
For where your numbers fall across every school, see acceptance rates by LSAT and GPA, and for the other end of the spectrum, the hardest law schools to get into.