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George Mason law school acceptance rate: 15.9% for the 2025 reporting year, being 443 offers on 2,792 completed applications with 159 (132 FT + 27 Flex-JD) enrolling, all from the school's own ABA 509 report. The offer-to-enrollment gap is the part worth reading.
15.9% for the 2025 reporting year, from George Mason's own ABA Standard 509 report (https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf), which is 443 offers on 2,792 completed applications with 159 (132 FT + 27 Flex-JD) enrolling.
A rate is a ratio and not a difficulty score. Two schools printing the same percentage can be very different admits if one draws a self-selected pool and the other does not.
The number worth more attention is the gap between offers and enrollment, because that is the school telling you how many admits it expects to lose.
Figure2025 reporting yearSourceApplicants2,792https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfOffers443https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfAcceptance rate15.9%https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th162 / 169 / 171https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.55 / 3.93 / 3.98https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfMedian grant$21,000 FT ($10,000 PT) (2024-25 aid year, 509)https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfShare receiving a grant84%https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdfTotal cost per year$66,174 VA resident; $82,288 nonresident (2025-26, school COA page)https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf
2,792 completed applications in the 2025 cycle, from the same report.
Against that, George Mason enrolled 159 (132 FT + 27 Flex-JD). Volume is what makes a rate look severe: a school can admit generously in absolute terms and still print a low percentage when enough people apply.
It also explains why the rate moves between cycles without the school changing anything. Applicant volume is national and the class size is local.
We hold one reporting year for this school in our verified sheet, and a trend built from a single point is not a trend, so this page does not draw one.
What is verifiable is this cycle: 15.9% on 2,792 applications (https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf). We refresh in December when new 509s land and this page moves with the sheet.
Treat any multi-year table you find elsewhere as only as good as its sourcing. The 509 archives exist school by school, and a page that has not cited them has not read them.
Your position against the bands. George Mason publishes an LSAT median of 169 with a 162 twenty-fifth percentile, and a GPA median of 3.93 with a 3.55 twenty-fifth, from the same 509.
A candidate above both medians faces very different odds from the headline rate, and so does one below both. The published figure averages over a pool you are not average in.
No school publishes admit rates by band, so the honest use of the percentage is as context rather than as a personal probability.
Our master admissions file carries detailed committee texture for 31 schools: what the essay has to do, how hard the school protects yield, how it uses interviews, and how it behaves on scholarship. George Mason is not one of the 31.
So this page makes no claim about how George Mason's committee reads a file. Everything here comes from what George Mason itself publishes: its ABA Standard 509 report and its own admissions pages.
A page that filled that gap with plausible-sounding advice would be indistinguishable from one that knew something, which is exactly why we would rather leave the hole visible. If you want committee-level read on this school, the honest source is the admissions office.
Early decision, from the school's own admissions pages: Yes: binding ED, Jan 15, two tracks: Scalia Law Scholars (binding + full tuition) and standard ED (fall 2026 cycle as posted; next app opens Sept 17)
Interviews: our sheet holds this as unverified. The note it carries is second-hand rather than from the school, and we do not publish second-hand admissions process claims as fact. Ask the admissions office directly.
Additional essays: unverified in our sheet, so read the live application rather than this page for what else is asked of you.
All of the above sits at https://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/jd/how_apply_jd/ ; class profile: https://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/profiles/2025_jd ; tuition: https://www.law.gmu.edu/financial_aid/tuition/jd and moves between cycles, which is why this page dates everything rather than presenting it as permanent.
Our sheet records George Mason's top markets as VA (64), DC (52), CA (5), from its own ABA employment reporting (https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf). Read the concentration rather than the list.
Alongside that, 15.6% (26/167, Class of 2025 ABA Emp Summary) of the class went to firms over 100 lawyers and 7.8% (13/167) took federal clerkships, from the same reporting.
In the Washington market specifically, those two numbers pull in different directions. Federal agencies, the Hill and the public interest sector employ heavily and appear in neither the large-firm column nor the clerkship column, so a modest large-firm rate here does not mean what it would mean in New York.
That is the honest way to read a DC school's outcomes: the large-firm figure describes one route out of several, and the geography column tells you which city's version of all of them you are buying into.
Put your own numbers beside the bands first. George Mason publishes 162 to 171 on the LSAT and 3.55 to 3.98 on GPA, from its 2025 509 (https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf), and everything else follows from where you land in those.
Then price it against the 509 again: total cost of $66,174 VA resident; $82,288 nonresident (2025-26, school COA page) against a median grant of $21,000 FT ($10,000 PT) (2024-25 aid year, 509) reaching 84% of students. Three years of the gap is the number that will still matter in a decade.
Then decide what you would do with the degree, because a school's value is mostly a statement about a market rather than about a ranking, and the market is the part you cannot change from inside.
If any of those three is unresolved, that is the work to do next, and it is more useful than reading another page about this school.
Open https://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/jd/how_apply_jd/ ; class profile: https://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/profiles/2025_jd ; tuition: https://www.law.gmu.edu/financial_aid/tuition/jd and confirm every deadline, prompt and requirement against the live application, because everything on this page carries a date for a reason.
Place yourself against the published bands rather than the acceptance rate: 162 to 171 on the LSAT and 3.55 to 3.98 on GPA, from the 2025 509 (https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf). Your position there decides what the rest of the application has to do.
Decide what this school is to you before drafting anything: a reach where the file must argue, a match where it must not get in the way, or a safety where the real question is how much money you can extract. Those are three different applications.
Every George Mason figure on this page was read from George Mason's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report at https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/admissions/abastd509inforeport_2025.pdf ; Emp Summary: https://www.law.gmu.edu/assets/files/career/abaemploymentsummary2025.pdf, and recorded in our data sheet with that URL against each individual field rather than as a single citation at the bottom.
Application mechanics come from George Mason's own admissions pages at https://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/jd/how_apply_jd/ ; class profile: https://www.law.gmu.edu/admissions/profiles/2025_jd ; tuition: https://www.law.gmu.edu/financial_aid/tuition/jd. Where our sheet holds a field as unverified, this page says so instead of presenting it as settled.
The 509 refiles every December, so every number here has a known expiry date. We would rather you knew that date than trusted the page indefinitely.
Every LSAC figure on this page was taken from LSAC's own pages and last checked on July 26, 2026. Prices, dates and policies move without notice, so the source link sits next to each number rather than in a bibliography at the bottom.
Where LSAC has not published something, this page says so in those words rather than filling the hole with a plausible number. That is the difference between a gap and a guess, and only one of them is safe to plan around.
15.9% for the 2025 reporting year: 443 offers on 2,792 applications, with 159 (132 FT + 27 Flex-JD) enrolling, from the school's own 509 report.
2,792 completed applications in the 2025 cycle, per the same report.
Our verified sheet holds one reporting year for this school, so we publish no trend line. We refresh each December when new 509s land.
Not personally. It averages over a pool you are not average in. Your position against the 162 to 171 LSAT band is the more useful read.
Because schools lose cross-admits and over-offer to fill a class. That same gap drives waitlist behavior and scholarship leverage.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026