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How to get into fordham law school: not in our verified set for the 2025 reporting year, against a published LSAT median of 168 and a GPA median of 3.80. A quarter of the admitted class sat at or below 166, which is the number worth planning against rather than the median.
not in our verified set for the 2025 reporting year, from Fordham's own ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report (https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/), last checked on July 28, 2026.
The rate on its own tells you less than the three numbers behind it. 8808 people applied, an offer count we do not hold verified was made and 447 enrolled, all from the same report.
Yield is the number worth watching there. A school that makes many offers to fill a small class is managing a pool that does not always choose it, and that shows up in how it treats waitlists and scholarship negotiation.
Figure2025 reporting yearSourceApplicants8808https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Offersnot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Acceptance ratenot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Matriculants447https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Class of 2025 graduatesnot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/
The published median is 168, with a 166 twenty-fifth percentile and a 170 seventy-fifth, from Fordham's own 2025 509 report (https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/).
In national terms a 168 sits at between the 90.56 percentile at 167 and the 95.07 percentile at 170, since LSAC publishes the table at those points and we do not interpolate between them, per LSAC published percentile ranks (https://www.lsac.org/data-research/data/lsat-percentiles). That is your standing among test takers, which is a different question from your standing in this applicant pool.
The number to plan against is the 25th percentile rather than the median. A quarter of the admitted class scored at or below 166, which means admits below the median are not exceptions here; they are a quarter of the class by construction.
PercentileLSATGPA25th1663.64Median1683.8075th1703.88
The published median is 3.80, between a 3.64 twenty-fifth percentile and a 3.88 seventy-fifth, from the same 509 report (https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/).
The GPA spread here runs 0.24 points and the LSAT spread runs 4 points. Which of those is wider tells you which axis this school is willing to flex on.
One thing no 509 report publishes, at any school, is the joint distribution: how LSAT and GPA travel together among admits. The two quartile sets are reported separately, so nobody outside the admissions office can tell you what a specific pairing is worth.
Below is where a given pairing sits against Fordham's published bands. It is a position map rather than a probability table, because the joint distribution is not published and any percentage attached to a cell would be invented.
Read it as: this is what the admissions committee sees when your file lands, before anything else in the application is considered.
Your LSATAgainst Fordham's bandWhat it means for the rest of the file170 or aboveAt or above the 75th percentileThe numbers are doing the work. The file needs to not undo them168 to 169Between the median and the 75thComfortably inside. Scholarship position rather than admission is the live question166 to 167Between the 25th and the medianInside the published band and below the middle, which is where the essays decide itBelow 166Below the published 25th percentileA quarter of admits sat at or below the 25th, so this is not closed, but the rest of the file has to carry itYour GPAAgainst Fordham's bandHow it pairs3.88 or aboveAt or above the 75th percentileCan offset an LSAT below the median, which is the reverse-splitter path3.80 to 3.88Between the median and the 75thNeutral. Neither axis is carrying the other3.64 to 3.80Between the 25th and the medianWants an LSAT at or above the median to balanceBelow 3.64Below the published 25th percentileNeeds a genuinely high LSAT, which is the splitter path
A wide gap between a school's 25th percentile and its 75th means it admits across a range on that axis. Fordham publishes an LSAT spread of 4 points and a GPA spread of 0.24, from its own 509 (https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/).
That LSAT spread is narrow, which means the score band is doing real gatekeeping and a low LSAT is hard to offset here.
The GPA spread is narrow, so a transcript well below the 25th percentile is harder to carry regardless of the LSAT.
None of that is a probability. It is what the published quartiles imply about which axis the school has been willing to flex on, and it is the most a 509 report can support.
We do not hold a verified median grant or grant reach for this school, so this page publishes neither (https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/). Those two numbers together say more than either alone.
A high median reaching a small share means concentrated awards to the top of the class. A modest median reaching almost everyone means a discount applied broadly, which is a different financial proposition and often a better one below the median.
We hold neither a verified tuition figure nor a verified cost of attendance for this school, from that same 509 report and, where the report carries no annual total, from the school's own cost page.
Money figure2025 reporting yearSourceMedian grantnot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Share receiving a grantnot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Tuitionnot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Total cost per yearnot in our verified sethttps://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/Employed at ten monthsnot in our verified setnot in our verified set
Our verified data sheet now covers 57 law schools with published LSAT bands, running from a median of 147 to a median of 175, each traced to its own 509 report and last checked on July 28, 2026.
Fordham's median of 168 places it 28th of those 57 by published LSAT median. That is a fact about one number rather than a ranking, and we do not hold a verified ranking source to offer you instead.
Use it the way it is meant: to know whether a target is a reach, a match or a safety against your own score, rather than to argue about prestige.
Three things, named rather than papered over. First, the master admissions file we work from carries detailed texture on essays, interviews, yield protection and scholarship posture for 31 schools, and Fordham is not one of them. This page therefore carries no claims about how Fordham's committee reads a file, because we do not have verified ones.
Second, no 509 report publishes grant size by LSAT band, so the median grant above describes the whole class and not your likely offer. A candidate admitted below the median generally sits below the median grant, and the size of that gap is not published anywhere.
Third, no school publishes its lowest admitted score. The 25th percentile is a quartile, not a floor, and any page that gives you a minimum is reading a number that does not exist.
Every Fordham figure on this page was read from Fordham's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report at https://digital.law.fordham.edu/quick-facts/, and recorded in our data sheet with that URL against each field.
The 509 is refiled each December, so this page carries the 2025 reporting year and will be wrong the month the 2026 report lands. Check the source link before you rely on a number for a decision.
Where a field was not obtainable from a source we actually fetched, our sheet records that rather than an estimate, and this page repeats the absence rather than filling it.
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.
The published median is 168, with a 166 twenty-fifth percentile and a 170 seventy-fifth, from the 2025 509 report. A quarter of the admitted class scored at or below 166.
not in our verified set for the 2025 reporting year, on an offer count we also do not hold, against 8808 applications, with 447 enrolling, all from the school's own 509 report.
The published median is 3.80, between a 3.64 twenty-fifth percentile and a 3.88 seventy-fifth, from the same 509 report.
We do not hold a verified median grant or grant reach for this school, so this page publishes neither. No 509 publishes grant size by LSAT band, so that figure describes the class rather than your offer.
Nobody knows, because no school publishes it. The 25th percentile is a quartile marker rather than a floor, so any page giving you a minimum accepted score is reading a number that does not exist.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026