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UDC law school LSAT and GPA: a published LSAT median of 150 between a 148 twenty-fifth percentile and a 153 seventy-fifth, alongside a GPA median of 3.38 between 3.12 and 3.68, all from the school's own 2025 509 report. Every figure here is from UDC's own 2025 ABA 509 report.
The published median is 150, between a 148 twenty-fifth percentile and a 153 seventy-fifth, from UDC's own 2025 509 (https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdf).
A quarter of the admitted class sat at or below 148. That is the number to plan against, because it is the one showing the door is open below the median.
Nationally a 150 sits at the 38.06 percentile, 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.
PercentileLSATGPA25th1483.12Median1503.3875th1533.68
A median of 3.38, between 3.12 and 3.68, from the same 509 report (https://law.udc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/2025_Std509InfoReport.pdf).
The GPA spread runs 0.56 against an LSAT spread of 5 points. The wider of the two is the axis this school has shown it will flex on.
Neither quartile set tells you how the two travel together, because no 509 publishes the joint distribution. That is the hard limit on any claim about a specific pairing.
The published spreads are the only evidence available, and here they are 5 points of LSAT against 0.56 of GPA.
A narrow LSAT spread means the score band does real gatekeeping and a low score is hard to offset here.
That is an inference from quartiles rather than a statement about committee behavior, and this page is not going to dress it up as more than that.
Where you sitAgainst UDC's published bandWhat the file has to do153 or aboveAt or above the 75thAvoid creating a reason to say no150 to 152Median to 75thCompete on scholarship rather than admission148 to 14925th to medianGive an affirmative reason to say yesBelow 148Below the 25thCarry the file on something the index cannot see
The lowest score admitted. A 25th percentile is a quartile marker, not a floor, and no school publishes a minimum, so any page giving you one is reading a number that does not exist.
How much a high GPA offsets a low LSAT here. The trade is real and unquantified at every ABA school, because the joint distribution is unpublished everywhere.
Whether this cycle resembles the last. The 509 describes the class that enrolled, and applicant volume moves year to year.
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.
Early decision, from the school's own admissions pages: No early decision program. Verified absence: neither the apply page nor the admission-policies page names an early decision, early action or binding round. Published 1L rounds are an Oct 1 open, a Feb 15 priority deadline whose only stated benefit is an application-fee waiver, and a Jun 1 final deadline
Interviews: the sheet records Not addressed. Verified absence: the school's own admissions pages do not mention interviews either way. The published process is document-based holistic committee review
Beyond the personal statement, UDC asks for Required Justice Essay in addition to the personal statement, on what issues matter to you and how you have demonstrated a commitment to social justice. No limit published An optional prompt you have something concrete for is not optional in practice.
All of the above sits at https://law.udc.edu/apply/ and moves between cycles, which is why this page dates everything rather than presenting it as permanent.
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.
The published median is 150, with a 148 twenty-fifth percentile and a 153 seventy-fifth, from the school's own 2025 509 report.
A median of 3.38, between 3.12 and 3.68, from the same report.
The published LSAT spread is 5 points. That is the only public evidence on the question, and it is an inference from quartiles rather than a statement about committee behavior.
Nobody publishes it. The 148 twenty-fifth percentile means a quarter of admits sat at or below it, which is a quartile marker rather than a floor.
It can, and by how much is unpublished. No ABA 509 reports the joint distribution of LSAT and GPA among admits.
Written by Ali, Georgetown Law, founder of Lovare Institut.
August 5, 2026
August 5, 2026