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Howard law school interview: our sheet holds this as unverified and second-hand, so this page states nothing and sends you to the admissions office. No school publishes interview rates or how much an interview moves a decision. Every figure here is from Howard's own 2025 ABA 509 report.
Our sheet holds this as unverified, and the note it carries is second-hand rather than from the school. We do not publish second-hand admissions process claims as fact, so this page states nothing. Ask the admissions office or read the school's own admissions pages.
Where interviews exist by invitation, the invitation itself is information: it means the file cleared a first read.
Either way, no school publishes what share of applicants it interviews or how much the interview moves a decision, so anyone quoting you a figure has invented it.
The same four almost everywhere, because they are the ones that separate candidates: why law, why this school, tell me about your record, and what you would do instead.
No school publishes its question set, so anyone handing you a school-specific list has assembled it from applicant reports rather than from the school. Treat it as a rumour with a useful shape.
Prepare the four. They cover most of what any interviewer can usefully ask in twenty minutes.
Assume it is evaluative until told otherwise. A conversation described as informational still produces a note in your file, and the note is written by someone who will be in the room when your application is discussed.
Prepare three things and nothing else: why law, why this school specifically, and one story from your own record you can tell in ninety seconds without notes.
For the second of those, use what the school actually reaches. Our sheet records Howard's top markets as DC 40, NY 29, MD 8 and its published class profile as an LSAT median of 156 against a 3.63 GPA median.
Why law, and why now. The weakest answers are the ones that could have been given at any point in the last five years.
Why this school. Same test as the why-essay: if the answer would fit another school, it is not an answer.
Tell me about your record. Pick one thing, tell it as a story with a decision in it, and stop before the interviewer's attention does.
What would you do if you did not go to law school. A refusal to answer reads as evasion; a real answer reads as someone who chose this.
Do not treat an informational conversation as a formality. Do not recite the website back. Do not ask a question you could have answered in thirty seconds on the school's own pages, because that is the one moment the interviewer is assessing your judgment rather than your record.
Do not oversell. A candidate who describes everything as a passion reads as someone with no priorities, which is the opposite of the impression a professional school wants.
And do not let it distort the rest of the application. The written file is what a committee reads first and longest.
Figure2025 reporting yearSourceApplicants2428https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfOffers584https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfAcceptance rate24.1%https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th153 / 156 / 160https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.40 / 3.63 / 3.80https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfMedian grant$23,657https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfShare receiving a grant48%https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdfTotal cost per year$78,031 (509-derived: tuition plus the 509 living-expenses line, not an official published budget)https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdf
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. Howard is not one of the 31.
So this page makes no claim about how Howard's committee reads a file. Everything here comes from what Howard 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: our sheet holds no verified record of this school's early decision terms, so this page does not state any.
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 the school's own admissions pages and moves between cycles, which is why this page dates everything rather than presenting it as permanent.
Our sheet records Howard's top markets as DC 40, NY 29, MD 8, from its own ABA employment reporting (https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-04/EQSummary-72-03-31-2026%2010-32-54_0.pdf). Read the concentration rather than the list.
Alongside that, 38.1% (59 of 155; bands 101-250 3, 251-500 11, 501+ 45) of the class went to firms over 100 lawyers and 1.9% (3 of 155; state and local clerkships a separate 5) 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. Howard publishes 153 to 160 on the LSAT and 3.40 to 3.80 on GPA, from its 2025 509 (https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.pdf), and everything else follows from where you land in those.
Then price it against the 509 again: total cost of $78,031 (509-derived: tuition plus the 509 living-expenses line, not an official published budget) against a median grant of $23,657 reaching 48% 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 the school's own admissions pages 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: 153 to 160 on the LSAT and 3.40 to 3.80 on GPA, from the 2025 509 (https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.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 Howard figure on this page was read from Howard's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report at https://law.howard.edu/sites/law.howard.edu/files/2026-02/Std509InfoReport_2025_0.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 Howard's own admissions pages at the school's own admissions pages. 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.
Our sheet holds this as unverified and the note is second-hand, so we state nothing. Ask the admissions office directly.
No school publishes its question set. The four that recur are why law, why this school, tell me about your record, and what you would do instead.
Assume it is evaluative. Prepare why law, why this school specifically, and one story from your record you can tell in ninety seconds without notes.
Not published, at this school or any other. No ABA disclosure covers interview rates, so any figure you find is somebody's estimate.
Unknown and unpublished. The written file is what a committee reads first and longest, and no school discloses how much an interview moves a decision.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026