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Maryland law school acceptance rate: 26.1% for the 2025 reporting year, with a published LSAT median of 164 and a GPA median of 3.72. A quarter of the admitted class sat at or below 156, which is the number worth planning against rather than the median.
26.1% for the 2025 reporting year, from Maryland's own ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf), last checked on July 28, 2026.
The rate on its own tells you less than the three numbers behind it. 2876 people applied, 750 received offers and 229 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 yearSourceApplicants2876https://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.pdfAcceptance rate26.1%https://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.pdfClass of 2025 graduates208https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf
The published median is 164, with a 156 twenty-fifth percentile and a 166 seventy-fifth, from Maryland Carey's own 2025 509 report (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf).
In national terms a 164 sits at between the 72.92 percentile at 160 and the 86.50 percentile at 165, 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 156, which means admits below the median are not exceptions here; they are a quarter of the class by construction.
PercentileLSATGPA25th1563.37Median1643.7275th1663.88
The published median is 3.72, between a 3.37 twenty-fifth percentile and a 3.88 seventy-fifth, from the same 509 report (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf).
The GPA spread here runs 0.51 points and the LSAT spread runs 10 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 Maryland Carey'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 Maryland's bandWhat it means for the rest of the file166 or aboveAt or above the 75th percentileThe numbers are doing the work. The file needs to not undo them164 to 165Between the median and the 75thComfortably inside. Scholarship position rather than admission is the live question156 to 163Between the 25th and the medianInside the published band and below the middle, which is where the essays decide itBelow 156Below 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 Maryland's bandHow it pairs3.88 or aboveAt or above the 75th percentileCan offset an LSAT below the median, which is the reverse-splitter path3.72 to 3.88Between the median and the 75thNeutral. Neither axis is carrying the other3.37 to 3.72Between the 25th and the medianWants an LSAT at or above the median to balanceBelow 3.37Below 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. Maryland publishes an LSAT spread of 10 points and a GPA spread of 0.51, from its own 509 (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf).
That LSAT spread is wide, which is the signature of a school that will take a lower score when something else in the file justifies it.
The GPA spread is wide too, so reverse splitters with a strong LSAT and a weaker transcript have a genuine path.
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.
The 2025 509 reports a median grant of $28,000 reaching 79% of students (https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf). 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.
Published tuition on the 509 is $37,830 resident / $55,844 non-resident, and the cost figure we hold is $70,672 resident / $88,686 non-resident (509-derived, not an official published budget), from that same 509 report and, where the report carries no annual total, from the school's own cost page.
Money figure2025 reporting yearSourceMedian grant$28,000https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfShare receiving a grant79%https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfTuition$37,830 resident / $55,844 non-residenthttps://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfTotal cost per year$70,672 resident / $88,686 non-resident (509-derived, not an official published budget)https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdfEmployed at ten months95.7%https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/ABA-Employment-Report-for-Class-of-2025_accessible.pdf
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.
Maryland's median of 164 places it 38th 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 Maryland is not one of them. This page therefore carries no claims about how Maryland Carey'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 Maryland figure on this page was read from Maryland Carey's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report at https://www.law.umaryland.edu/media/sol/sol-2022-images-and-files/aba-required-disclosures/Std509InfoReport_2025-2_accessible.pdf, 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 164, with a 156 twenty-fifth percentile and a 166 seventy-fifth, from the 2025 509 report. A quarter of the admitted class scored at or below 156.
26.1% for the 2025 reporting year: 750 offers on 2876 applications, with 229 enrolling, all from the school's own 509 report.
The published median is 3.72, between a 3.37 twenty-fifth percentile and a 3.88 seventy-fifth, from the same 509 report.
The 2025 509 reports a median grant of $28,000 reaching 79% of students. 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