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UDC law early decision: there is none. UDC publishes no early decision, early action or binding round on its own admissions pages as of July 31, 2026. What it does publish is an October 1 open, a February 15 priority deadline that waives the application fee, and a June 1 final deadline.
UDC does not run one. We checked its apply page and its admission-policies page on July 31, 2026 and neither names an early decision, an early action or any binding round (https://law.udc.edu/apply/).
That is a verified absence rather than a gap in our research, and it is the whole answer to this question. There is no binding commitment to weigh here because the school does not offer one.
What UDC does publish is a three-date calendar, and the middle date is the one people mistake for an early round.
RoundDateWhat it actually gets youSourceFall application opensOctober 1Nothing beyond the ability to filehttps://law.udc.edu/apply/Priority deadlineFebruary 15Your application fee is waived. That is the only stated benefithttps://law.udc.edu/apply/Final deadlineJune 1Last date to file for fall entryhttps://law.udc.edu/apply/Transfer, fallJune 30Separate deadlinehttps://law.udc.edu/apply/Transfer, springNovember 30Separate deadlinehttps://law.udc.edu/apply/
There is nothing to bind. UDC publishes no early decision program, so no version of this application obliges you to withdraw other files or to attend.
The February 15 priority deadline is sometimes read as an early round because schools elsewhere attach admissions weight to one. UDC attaches a fee waiver and says nothing further, and we are not going to read a preference into silence.
Nor does UDC describe its process as rolling. The word does not appear on its admissions pages. What it describes is committee review, with some files held for ongoing consideration (https://law.udc.edu/admissionpolicies/).
Unknowable, and that is true everywhere. No ABA 509 report breaks acceptance out by application round, so no school's early advantage is a published number (https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdf).
What the 509 does publish is the overall picture: 37.0% on 749 applications, with a median grant of $8,292 reaching 70% (172 of 247) of students.
The defensible move at a school with no early round is to file well before February 15, take the fee waiver, and stop optimising a variable the school has not said it weighs.
Figure2025 reporting yearSourceApplicants749https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfOffers277https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfAcceptance rate37.0%https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th148 / 150 / 153https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.12 / 3.38 / 3.68https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfMedian grant$8,292https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfShare receiving a grant70% (172 of 247)https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdfTotal cost per year$46,473 DC resident / $58,909 non-resident (509-derived: tuition plus the 509 living line; the 509 prints no total and no 2025-2026 mandatory fee)https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdf
No ABA 509 report publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band, at any school. The median grant therefore describes the whole entering class rather than predicting your letter.
Money follows the numbers, and the further above a median you sit the more of it follows. That direction is reliable; the magnitude is not published anywhere.
Renewal conditions are the other unpublished variable. Some awards carry a GPA condition and 509 reports do not disclose them, so ask in writing before comparing two offers.
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. UDC is not one of the 31.
So this page makes no claim about how UDC's committee reads a file. Everything here comes from what UDC 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.
Government took 16 graduates from the Class of 2025 and public interest took 11, with another 9 in state and local clerkships, from UDC's own ABA employment reporting (https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/ABAEmpSumm_2025Grads.pdf).
Firms of every size took 17, of which 3 were at firms over 100 lawyers. Top markets are DC 26, MD 16, VA 7, from the same reporting.
That ordering is the school's design rather than a result it fell short of. UDC is a public-interest law school with a clinic requirement built into graduation, and it places more graduates into government and public interest than into law firms of every size combined.
Which means the large-firm column is the wrong instrument for measuring this school. Read the public sector rows, and read them against the resident cost, because that pairing is what UDC is actually offering you.
Put your own numbers beside the bands first. UDC publishes 148 to 153 on the LSAT and 3.12 to 3.68 on GPA, from its 2025 509 (https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdf), and everything else follows from where you land in those.
Then price it against the 509 again: total cost of $46,473 DC resident / $58,909 non-resident (509-derived: tuition plus the 509 living line; the 509 prints no total and no 2025-2026 mandatory fee) against a median grant of $8,292 reaching 70% (172 of 247) 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 https://law.udc.edu/apply/ 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: 148 to 153 on the LSAT and 3.12 to 3.68 on GPA, from the 2025 509 (https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.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 UDC figure on this page was read from UDC's own 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosure Report at https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.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 UDC's own admissions pages at https://law.udc.edu/apply/. 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.
UDC does not offer early decision. Neither its apply page nor its admission-policies page names an early decision, early action or binding round as of July 31, 2026. It publishes an October 1 open, a February 15 priority deadline and a June 1 final deadline.
There is no binding round to be bound by. The February 15 priority deadline's only stated benefit is a waived application fee.
Not a published number at this school or any other, because no ABA 509 report breaks acceptance out by application round. File before February 15 for the fee waiver and stop there.
June 1 for fall entry, with the application opening October 1 and a February 15 priority deadline that waives the fee. Transfer deadlines are June 30 for fall and November 30 for spring.
The school does not use the word. Its admission-policies page describes committee review of completed files, with some applications held for ongoing consideration.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026