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Villanova law school acceptance rate was 25.9% for the 2025 reporting year, being 749 offers on 2889 completed applications, on which Villanova Widger enrolled 232 students, from Villanova Widger's own ABA Standard 509 report. Villanova Widger publishes an LSAT median of 164 and a GPA median of 3.80. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger published an acceptance rate of 25.9% for the 2025 reporting year in its own ABA Standard 509 report, being 749 offers on 2889 completed applications. Villanova Widger enrolled 232 matriculants from those 749 offers, from the same 509 report, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
FigurePublished valueSourceCompleted applications2889https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfOffers of admission749https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfAcceptance rate25.9%https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfMatriculants232https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfLSAT 25th / median / 75th159 / 164 / 166https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfGPA 25th / median / 75th3.64 / 3.80 / 3.90https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfTuition$59,800 plus $950 feeshttps://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfTotal cost of attendance$86,242https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfMedian grant$40,000https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfShare receiving a grant87%https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfEmployed at ten months96.7%https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdfClass of 2025 graduates184https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdf
Villanova Widger publishes the second-lowest acceptance rate of the five schools in this batch at 25.9 percent, and a median four points above Loyola Chicago's on a similar rate. 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.
Villanova Widger publishes an LSAT band of 159 at the 25th percentile, 164 at the median and 166 at the 75th, all from its own 2025 509 report. That is a spread of 7 points across the middle half of the admitted class, which is the range your own score has to land inside. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger's 159 to 166 band is the widest of the five in this batch at seven points, which is the signature of a school that will take a lower score when the rest of the file justifies it. retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
A median means about half the admitted class scored below it, from Villanova Widger's own 509 (https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.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 Villanova Widger's band. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger publishes a GPA band of 3.64 at the 25th percentile, 3.80 at the median and 3.90 at the 75th, from the same 509 report. The GPA spread at Villanova Widger runs 0.26 points from the 25th to the 75th, our arithmetic on Villanova Widger'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 Villanova Widger the LSAT spread is 7 points, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
That is an inference from quartiles rather than a statement about how Villanova Widger's committee behaves, and this page is not going to dress it up as more than that. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger 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 159 to 166 on the LSAT and 3.64 to 3.90 on GPA, from Villanova Widger's own 509, retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
Above both medians you are the candidate Villanova Widger would pay for, and its published median grant of $40,000 reaching 87% of students is the evidence for that (https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.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.
Villanova Widger published 96.7% employment at the ten-month date for a class of 184 graduates, from its own reporting as recorded in our data sheet. Villanova Widger's market breakdown and large-firm share are not in our verified set, so this page publishes neither. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger's market breakdown and large-firm share are recorded as not pulled in our data sheet, so this page publishes neither and points you to the school's own ABA employment summary instead. retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The employment figure covers all employment types rather than large-firm work alone, from Villanova Widger'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 Villanova Widger offer is what sits above that line. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger publishes a total cost of attendance of $86,242, from its own 509 report (https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.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.
Villanova Widger publishes a median grant of $40,000 reaching 87% of students, from its own 509 report (https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Grant reach that broad is the lever that decides whether you cross the cap at all. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger 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 Villanova Widger'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 Villanova Widger is outside that set. Verified July 2026.
Where we hold nothing for Villanova Widger, 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 Villanova Widger, and this page names them rather than filling them from a ranking or a prep site. Those live in Villanova Widger'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 Villanova Widger 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 Villanova Widger'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 25.9% tells you about Villanova Widger's applicant pool rather than about your odds (https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.pdf), retrieved July 31, 2026. Verified July 2026.
The grant reach of 87% tells you whether Villanova Widger spends broadly or narrowly, and broad reach is worth more to a below-median applicant than a large median reaching few (https://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.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 Villanova Widger 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 supportsSourceVillanova Widger 2025 ABA Standard 509 reporthttps://www.villanova.edu/content/dam/villanova/law/documents/aba/Std509InfoReport.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
25.9% for the 2025 reporting year, being 749 offers on 2889 completed applications, from Villanova Widger's own ABA Standard 509 report. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger publishes a band of 159 to 166 with a median of 164, from its own 2025 509 report. A median means about half the class scored below it. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger publishes 3.64 to 3.90 with a median of 3.80, from the same report. Verified July 2026.
Villanova Widger publishes a median grant of $40,000 reaching 87% of students. No 509 publishes grant size by LSAT or GPA band at any school. Verified July 2026.
96.7% employed at ten months for a class of 184. 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 Villanova Widger'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