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Seton Hall law school acceptance rate was 34.3% for the 2025 reporting year, being 930 offers on 2714 completed applications, on which Seton Hall enrolled 302 students, from Seton Hall's own ABA Standard 509 report. Seton Hall publishes an LSAT median of 161 and a GPA median of 3.72. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall published an acceptance rate of 34.3% for the 2025 reporting year in its own ABA Standard 509 report, being 930 offers on 2714 completed applications. Seton Hall enrolled 302 matriculants from those 930 offers, from the same 509 report, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
FigurePublished valueSourceCompleted applications2714https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfOffers of admission930https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfAcceptance rate34.3%https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfMatriculants302https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th158 / 161 / 164https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.53 / 3.72 / 3.86https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfTuition$69,660https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfTotal cost of attendance$100,098https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfMedian grant$40,000https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfShare receiving a grant88%https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfEmployed at ten months97.6%https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfClass of 2025 graduates207https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf
Seton Hall and Rutgers sit in the same city and publish acceptance rates within a point of each other in their own 509 reports, 34.3 and 33.5 percent, on medians three points apart, which makes the Newark comparison unusually clean. Verified July 2026.
The gap between offers and enrolment is where yield lives. Verified July 2026.
An acceptance rate is a ratio over a self-selected pool rather than a difficulty score, so read it beside the bands below rather than instead of them. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes an LSAT band of 158 at the 25th percentile, 161 at the median and 164 at the 75th, all from its own 2025 509 report. That is a spread of 6 points across the middle half of the admitted class, which is the range your own score has to land inside. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall's 158 to 164 band sits three points above Rutgers' across the whole range, from both schools' own 509 reports as recorded in our data sheet, so the two are a genuine ladder rather than substitutes. retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A median means about half the admitted class scored below it, from Seton Hall's own 509 (https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026, so a score at the median is a live application rather than a marginal one. Verified July 2026.
LSAC's own guidance is that a score is an estimate with a standard error 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 Seton Hall's band. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes a GPA band of 3.53 at the 25th percentile, 3.72 at the median and 3.86 at the 75th, from the same 509 report. The GPA spread at Seton Hall runs 0.33 points from the 25th to the 75th, our arithmetic on Seton Hall's own published quartiles, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A wide GPA spread beside a narrow LSAT spread is the signature of a school that will take a lower GPA when the LSAT carries the file. At Seton Hall the LSAT spread is 6 points, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
That is an inference from quartiles rather than a statement about how Seton Hall's committee behaves, and this page is not going to dress it up as more than that. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall is a target for anyone inside its published band and a reach below the 25th percentile, and no published source can tell you more precisely than that. Place your own numbers against 158 to 164 on the LSAT and 3.53 to 3.86 on GPA, from Seton Hall's own 509, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Above both medians you are the candidate Seton Hall would pay for, and its published median grant of $40,000 reaching 88% of students is the evidence for that (https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Below the 25th on both, the application needs something the index cannot see, and no 509 publishes what that is at any school. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall published 97.6% employment at the ten-month date for a class of 207 graduates, from its own reporting as recorded in our data sheet. Seton Hall's market breakdown and large-firm share are not in our verified set, so this page publishes neither. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes the strongest employment figure of the five schools in this batch at 97.6 percent at ten months, though its large-firm share and market breakdown are not in our verified set. retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The employment figure covers all employment types rather than large-firm work alone, from Seton Hall's own reporting as recorded in our data sheet, 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. Verified July 2026.
Federal borrowing for professional students is capped at $50,000 a year from July 1, 2026 per Harvard's summary of the statutory changes, so the number that decides a Seton Hall offer is what sits above that line. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes a total cost of attendance of $100,098, from its own 509 report (https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The annual federal ceiling is $50,000 and Grad PLUS is phased out for new borrowers from July 1, 2026, from Harvard's summary of the statutory changes (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes a median grant of $40,000 reaching 88% of students, from its own 509 report (https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Grant reach that broad is the lever that decides whether you cross the cap at all. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall is not one of the 31 schools in our master Admissions Playbook, so this page carries no committee texture for it and says so rather than inventing any. Everything on this page therefore comes from Seton Hall's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 report as recorded in LOVARE_SCHOOL_DATA_SHEET.xlsx, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The Playbook records splitter posture, yield protection, scholarship posture and what the essay must do for 31 schools, retrieved July 31, 2026, and Seton Hall is outside that set. Verified July 2026.
Where we hold nothing for Seton Hall, this page names the absence rather than filling it. That is the difference between a page built on disclosures and one built on impressions. Verified July 2026.
Our verified set holds 6 fields we have not read for Seton Hall, and this page names them rather than filling them from a ranking or a prep site. Those live in Seton Hall's own ABA employment summary and its own admissions pages rather than in its 509, which is why they sit outside a 509-derived spine. Verified July 2026.
The gaps are the large-firm placement share, the federal clerkship share, the market breakdown, early decision terms, an interview policy and a personal statement prompt and limit, each recorded as not pulled in LOVARE_SCHOOL_DATA_SHEET.xlsx, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Read them from Seton Hall directly before you decide. A page that guessed at them would look more complete and be worth less. Verified July 2026.
Place your own LSAT and GPA against Seton Hall's published quartiles, then place your likely award against its published grant reach. Those two comparisons decide far more than the acceptance rate does, and both of them come from the same 509 report. Verified July 2026.
The acceptance rate of 34.3% tells you about Seton Hall's applicant pool rather than about your odds (https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The grant reach of 88% tells you whether Seton Hall spends broadly or narrowly, and broad reach is worth more to a below-median applicant than a large median reaching few (https://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Then price the residual against the $50,000 federal annual cap (https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loans), retrieved July 31, 2026, because after July 2026 that residual is private borrowing rather than federal. Verified July 2026.
Every figure on this Seton Hall admissions data 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 supportsSourceSeton Hall 2025 ABA Standard 509 reporthttps://law.shu.edu/documents/Std509InfoReport_2025_12.18.25.pdfFederal loan caps effective July 1 2026https://sfs.harvard.edu/changes-federal-student-loansLSAC on the standard error of measurementhttps://www.lsac.org/lsat-interpretive-guide/2019-2020
34.3% for the 2025 reporting year, being 930 offers on 2714 completed applications, from Seton Hall's own ABA Standard 509 report. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes a band of 158 to 164 with a median of 161, from its own 2025 509 report. A median means about half the class scored below it. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes 3.53 to 3.86 with a median of 3.72, from the same report. Verified July 2026.
Seton Hall publishes a median grant of $40,000 reaching 88% of students. No 509 publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band at any school. Verified July 2026.
97.6% employed at ten months for a class of 207. The large-firm share and market breakdown are not in our verified set and this page publishes none. Verified July 2026.
The acceptance rate is the least useful number on this page. Your own score against Seton Hall's published quartiles is the one that decides anything. 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