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How to get into Maryland law school starts with two published numbers: Maryland Carey admitted 26.1% of its applicants and publishes an LSAT median of 164 and a GPA median of 3.72, all from its own ABA Standard 509 report. Verified July 2026.
An LSAT and GPA inside Maryland Carey's published bands, and a file that gives the committee a reason where the numbers do not. Maryland Carey admitted 26.1% of its applicants in the 2025 reporting year; Maryland Carey made 750 offers on 2876 completed applications and enrolled 229 students, from its own 509 report, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
What the 509 publishesFigureSourceAcceptance rate26.1%https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfApplicants2876https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfOffers750https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfMatriculants229https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfLSAT 25th / 50th / 75th156 / 164 / 166https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfGPA 25th / 50th / 75th3.37 / 3.72 / 3.88https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf
Maryland Carey publishes the widest LSAT spread of any school in the DC market at ten points, from 156 to 166, which is the signature of a committee that will take a lower score when the rest of the file justifies it.
That gap between offers and enrolment is yield, and it is the number that decides whether a waitlist at Maryland Carey moves. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey publishes 156 at the 25th percentile, 164 at the median and 166 at the 75th. That is a spread of 10 points across the middle half of the class; Below the 25th percentile the LSAT stops carrying the file and something else has to. Verified July 2026.
A median means about half the admitted class scored below it, from Maryland Carey's own 509 (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026, so a score at the median is a live application rather than a marginal one. Verified July 2026.
LSAC publishes a standard error of measurement of about 2.6 scaled points (https://www.lsac.org/lsat-interpretive-guide/2019-2020), retrieved July 31, 2026, so treat your own score as a band against Maryland Carey's band rather than as a point. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey publishes 3.37 at the 25th percentile, 3.72 at the median and 3.88 at the 75th, from the same 509 report. That is a spread of 0.51 points; Set that GPA spread beside the 10-point LSAT spread, our arithmetic on Maryland Carey's own published quartiles, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A wide GPA range next to a narrow LSAT range is the signature of a school that will take a lower GPA when the test score carries the file. Verified July 2026.
That is an inference from quartiles rather than a statement about how Maryland Carey's committee behaves, and no 509 publishes the latter at any school. Verified July 2026.
The published bands are the only honest guide, and at Maryland Carey they are wide enough that a split file is clearly in play. No school publishes admission rates by LSAT and GPA combination; The reverse split runs the other way, against 3.88 and 156 from the same report, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A high-LSAT, low-GPA file sits against 166 on one axis and 3.37 on the other, both from Maryland Carey's own 509 (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Anyone giving you a splitter admission probability for a named school has modelled it from self-reported data. Ask which before you plan around it.
Maryland Carey publishes a median grant of $28,000 reaching 79% of its students, from its own 509 report. No 509 publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band at any school, so nobody can tell you what your own award would be. Verified July 2026.
Grant reach matters more than median size to a below-median applicant, because reach is how likely you are to get anything at all (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey publishes tuition of $37,830 resident / $55,844 non-resident (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
After July 1, 2026 the residual is what matters, because federal borrowing for professional students is capped at $50,000 a year and Grad PLUS is phased out for new borrowers, per Harvard's summary of the statutory changes (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey published 95.7 percent employment at the ten-month date for a class of 208 graduates, which is the highest employment figure in the DC market in our verified set. Its market and large-firm breakdowns are not in our verified set. Verified July 2026.
That 95.7 percent covers all employment types rather than large-firm work alone, from Maryland Carey's own reporting as recorded in LOVARE_SCHOOL_DATA_SHEET.xlsx, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey's large-firm share, federal clerkship share and top markets are each recorded as not pulled in our data sheet, so this page publishes none of them and points you to the school's own ABA employment summary instead (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/ABA-Employment-Report-for-Class-of-2025_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Ten months is an early snapshot of a job held on one day. It is the standard because it is comparable across schools, not because it is complete.
Maryland Carey feeds Georgetown directly. Georgetown's own 2025 509 names Maryland Carey as the source of 5 transfer students, and names every DC-area school in the same table alongside it; Maryland Carey sits at 5 in the same table, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
DC-area schoolStudents who transferred to GeorgetownSourceAmerican29https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfGW11https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfMaryland Carey5https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfHoward3https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfCatholic1https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfUDC1https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfGeorge Mason1https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdf
American is the largest single feeder in that table at 29 students, ahead of GW at 11 and Maryland at 5, from Georgetown's own 509 (https://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A transfer route is a real option and a risky plan. It depends on first-year grades you cannot predict and it forfeits any scholarship you were given.
Maryland Carey is not one of the 31 schools in our master Admissions Playbook, so this page carries no committee texture for Maryland Carey and says so rather than inventing any. Everything below is a published figure or an inference we label. Verified July 2026.
The Playbook covers 31 schools and holds interview behaviour, reader preferences and cycle patterns for those. Maryland Carey is outside it, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
That absence is worth stating plainly, because the thing applicants most want about Maryland Carey is exactly the thing nobody has published. Verified July 2026.
What we do hold for Maryland Carey is its own 509 report, and every number on this page comes from there rather than from anyone's impression. Verified July 2026.
4 fields this page would otherwise use: early decision terms, an interview policy, a why-school essay requirement, the public sector placement breakdown. Each is recorded as not pulled in our data sheet rather than estimated, and this page publishes none of them. Verified July 2026.
Every one of those is a real absence rather than a zero, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Naming the gap is the only honest option available. The alternative is filling it from a prep site, which is how wrong figures enter a corpus and never leave.
Where Maryland Carey publishes any of these later, they belong in the sheet first and on this page second. Verified July 2026.
Place your own LSAT and GPA against Maryland Carey's published quartiles, then place your likely award against its published grant reach. Those two comparisons decide far more than the acceptance rate does; Then read the school's own pages for the things no 509 publishes. Verified July 2026.
The acceptance rate of 26.1% describes Maryland Carey's applicant pool rather than your odds (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The grant reach of 79% tells you whether Maryland Carey spends broadly or narrowly, and broad reach is worth more to a below-median applicant than a large median reaching few (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
That is where the remaining decision actually lives.
Every figure on this Maryland Carey admissions page carries a Verified July 2026 stamp because a dated stamp is the only honest way to publish a number that moves. Each source below was retrieved in July 2026 and is linked in full rather than named vaguely, so nothing here is modelled, averaged or inferred.
What it supportsSourceMaryland Carey 2025 ABA Standard 509 reporthttps://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfGeorgetown 2025 ABA Standard 509 report, Transfers tablehttps://www.law.georgetown.edu/admissions-aid/wp-content/uploads/sites/57/2025/12/Std509InfoReport-63-12-17-2025-13-38-17.pdfLSAC on the standard error of measurementhttps://www.lsac.org/lsat-interpretive-guide/2019-2020Federal loan caps effective July 1 2026https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans
26.1% for the 2025 reporting year, being 750 offers on 2876 completed applications, from its own ABA Standard 509 report. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey publishes 156 to 166 with a median of 164. A median means about half the admitted class scored below it. Verified July 2026.
Maryland Carey publishes 3.37 to 3.88 with a median of 3.72, from the same 509 report. Verified July 2026.
A median grant of $28,000 reaching 79% of students. No 509 publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band at any school. Verified July 2026.
5, from Georgetown's own 2025 509 Transfers table. American leads that table at 29, ahead of GW at 11. Verified July 2026.
Run your own numbers against Maryland Carey's published quartiles before you decide anything else. That comparison is the one the acceptance rate cannot make for you. The Lovare Diagnostic takes about fifteen minutes and returns your own numbers against published school data rather than a single probability, and it is free.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026