Wilmington University School of Law admitted roughly 52% of the 273 applicants in its most recently reported cycle, extending offers to 142 people and enrolling a class of 75. That acceptance rate means a majority of applicants who apply are admitted, yet nearly half are not.
The entering class's LSAT profile runs 146 at the 25th percentile, 149 at the median, and 152 at the 75th percentile. Read as planning anchors rather than predictions: a 146 places an applicant at the bottom quarter of the class's LSAT distribution, a 149 sits at the exact middle, and a 152 puts someone in the top quarter on that metric. GPA tells a similar story — the middle 50% of the class ran from 2.67 at the 25th percentile to 3.49 at the 75th, with a 3.13 median. That is a wide GPA band, which signals that Wilmington's admissions committee is reading files holistically rather than sorting almost exclusively on undergraduate GPA.
Taken together, these numbers describe a law school built to serve applicants whose numeric credentials — LSAT, GPA, or both — sit below the medians at most ABA-accredited schools, while still applying a real admit/deny screen rather than open enrollment. An applicant whose LSAT or GPA falls below the 25th percentile figures isn't shut out by these medians alone, since holistic review clearly plays a role in a class this GPA-diverse, but they should expect their file to be weighed against a class where a full quarter of peers scored under 146 on the LSAT and a full quarter came in under a 2.67 GPA. Conversely, an applicant at or above the 152/3.49 mark is competitive with Wilmington's strongest admitted cohort on paper, though the school does not publish how those numbers translate into scholarship tiers beyond the aggregate grant data discussed elsewhere in this guide.
Of the 75 students who entered Wilmington's most recent class, 37 enrolled full-time and 38 enrolled part-time — a nearly 50/50 split that is unusual among ABA-accredited law schools, most of which enroll a small part-time cohort alongside a dominant full-time class. Total JD enrollment across all years stood at 119 students.
A class divided almost evenly down the middle is not an accident of one cycle's applicant pool; it reflects an institution structured around two parallel tracks rather than a full-time program with a part-time add-on. For a prospective student, the practical implication is that choosing the part-time track at Wilmington does not mean joining a small, secondary population — roughly half of any given entering class is on that same schedule, which matters for section sizes, study groups, and how central the part-time cohort is to the school's culture rather than being an afterthought to it.
The pack does not report the specific class-scheduling structure (evening versus weekend sessions, credit-hour pacing, or how long the part-time track takes to finish), so applicants who need those specifics — for example, whether coursework is scheduled to accommodate a full-time job — should confirm the current part-time curriculum design directly with the admissions office rather than assume a standard evening-division model. What the enrollment numbers do establish, on their own, is that Wilmington is set up to serve a substantial population of students who are not treating law school as their only full-time commitment.
The data pack does not report a usable tuition figure for either the full-time or part-time program — both fields come through as $0, which reads as unreported or missing data rather than an actual tuition-free program, so this guide will not state a tuition number until that figure can be verified directly with the school. What the pack does report is the estimated cost of off-campus living for students: $24,622 per year, a real component of the total cost of attendance even before tuition and fees are added in.
On financial aid, 54% of students received some form of grant support, and the median grant among full-time recipients was $6,000. That median is modest relative to typical law school grant packages, and the distribution around it explains why: 41% of students received awards covering less than half of tuition, 11% received awards covering between half and full tuition, and only 2% received a full-tuition award. In other words, grant aid at Wilmington is real but concentrated at the smaller end — most aid recipients are getting partial help, not a free ride, and full-tuition awards are rare.
For an applicant weighing Wilmington against other options, the honest framing is this: nearly half the class (46%) receives no grant at all, and among the 54% who do, the typical award is a few thousand dollars rather than a scholarship that meaningfully offsets sticker cost. Anyone building a budget should get a written, current cost-of-attendance figure — including tuition, fees, and the $24,622 living estimate — directly from the financial aid office, and should read any offered grant against the school's own published renewal/retention conditions before counting on it for all four (or more, part-time) years. General mechanics of negotiating a scholarship offer, and of how federal loan caps interact with a shortfall between grants and total cost, are covered in the shared guides on scholarship negotiation and law school loans — but the specific dollar figures for Wilmington itself begin and end with the grant and living-cost data reported here.
Because Wilmington University School of Law's most recent ABA data compilation does not include them. Every field that would normally answer these questions for a law school guide — the percentage of graduates employed in bar-passage-required or JD-advantage jobs, first-time and ultimate bar passage rates (and how they compare to the state average), the Big Law placement count, the breakdown by firm size, and the split between government, public interest, clerkship, and business/industry employment — comes back blank in the compiled dataset we rely on for this school.
This is not us withholding information; it is a genuine gap in the public record we are permitted to draw from. One likely explanation sits inside the same data pack: the reporting cycle shows zero JD degrees awarded, even though the school lists a total JD enrollment of 119 students and an entering class of 75 (37 full-time, 38 part-time). Taken together, this pattern is consistent with a law program that, as of this data cycle, had not yet produced a graduating class large enough to generate reportable bar-passage or employment statistics — rather than a school actively concealing poor outcomes. That said, we cannot confirm this interpretation from the pack alone, and it deserves direct verification.
What this means for you as an applicant: you should not assume any bar passage rate or employment outcome for Wilmington's law program, positive or negative. Instead, before applying or enrolling, ask the admissions office directly for the school's current ABA Standard 509 Information Report and its most recent bar passage and employment summary, and cross-check the ABA's own public disclosure database, which every accredited law school must update annually. For a program this early in (or this thin on public reporting for) its outcomes track record, that verification step is not optional due diligence — it is the single most important piece of research you can do before committing tuition dollars and years of your life.
We would rather tell you plainly that the data is missing than manufacture a number that sounds authoritative but isn't. Any claim about Wilmington's bar passage rate, job placement rate, or Big Law/government/public-interest split that you encounter elsewhere should be traced back to a primary source — a 509 report or the school's own ABA-required disclosures — before you rely on it.
According to the compiled ABA data for Wilmington, the school reports zero live-client clinics filled, zero simulation courses filled, and zero co-curricular offerings in this reporting cycle — but 19 field placements filled. In practical terms, that means the hands-on training pipeline this data shows running is the externship/field-placement route, where students work under supervision at an outside legal employer, rather than an in-house clinic model where students represent clients through a law-school-run practice.
Nineteen filled field placements against a total JD enrollment of 119 students is a meaningful share of the student body getting placement-based experience, even without an on-campus clinic program appearing in the data. If skills training built around live clinical casework — family law clinic, immigration clinic, criminal defense clinic, and the like — is a priority for you, this data pack gives no evidence that Wilmington currently operates programs of that kind, and you should ask the school directly what clinical or simulation offerings exist that may not be reflected in this particular compilation.
The honest takeaway: verify current experiential offerings directly with the school before assuming either a robust clinical program or its absence. What the numbers in front of us support is a field-placement-centered model, not a clinic-centered one, as of this data cycle.
Where a 140s LSAT lands you depends on exactly where in that range you fall, and Wilmington's own published numbers give you the anchors to figure that out. The school's 25th/50th/75th percentile LSAT scores are 146, 149, and 152. A score at 146 sits at Wilmington's 25th percentile — meaning roughly a quarter of the entering class scored at or below that mark — while a 149 sits at the median and a 152 at the 75th percentile. A score in the low 140s (140-145) falls below the school's published 25th percentile, and a score of 146-148 sits between the 25th percentile and the median. None of this predicts an admissions outcome; medians and percentiles are planning anchors for how your numbers compare to the enrolled class, not a probability of getting in.
GPA works the same way alongside the LSAT. Wilmington's 25th/50th/75th percentile undergraduate GPAs are 2.67, 3.13, and 3.49 — a comparatively wide band, which suggests the school evaluates files holistically rather than screening on a narrow numerical cutoff. If your LSAT sits below the 25th percentile but your GPA sits at or above the median (or vice versa), that combination is exactly the kind of file where the rest of the application — addendum, resume, writing sample — tends to carry more weight, a general pattern true across most law schools, not just this one.
Scholarship money is where your numbers matter most concretely. In the most recent cycle reported, 54% of Wilmington's incoming class received some grant aid, with a median first-year grant of $6,000. But the distribution of that aid was uneven: 41% of students received grants covering less than half of tuition, only 11% received grants between half and full tuition, and just 2% received a full-tuition award. In plain terms, most Wilmington grant recipients get a partial, modest discount rather than a transformative scholarship. If you're aiming to negotiate a better offer, every point you can add to your LSAT before applying — through structured, official-practice-based study, since the current format drops Logic Games in favor of two Logical Reasoning sections and one Reading Comprehension section — has outsized leverage precisely because Wilmington's own band data shows so few students landing in the higher aid tiers. Our LSAT prep guide (/how-to-study-for-the-lsat) covers how applicants typically move their score, and our scholarship negotiation guide (/law-school-scholarship-negotiation) walks through how to use a stronger number, or a competing offer, to push a modest grant toward a larger one.
One data point worth flagging honestly: the pack shows no reported entering-class numbers or reduction figures for Wilmington's conditional scholarship program across the last three cycles, so we cannot tell you whether conditional scholarships (aid that can shrink or disappear if you fall below a GPA threshold) are part of the school's aid structure or how often they're reduced. If a scholarship offer you receive comes with GPA-retention strings attached, ask the school directly what percentage of conditionally-scholarshiped students historically kept their full award — that single question tells you more than the sticker amount on the offer letter.
Wilmington admitted roughly 52% of applicants for its most recent entering class — 142 offers out of 273 applications. That does not mean the application is a formality; it means your file is read holistically, and your numbers matter more for scholarship positioning than for a yes/no admissions decision. Compliance note: an acceptance rate describes a class-wide outcome, not your individual odds — treat these figures as planning context, not a probability.
Start with the school's own numbers as anchors, not targets to just clear. Wilmington's LSAT band runs 146 (25th percentile) to 149 (median) to 152 (75th percentile), and its GPA band runs 2.67 to 3.13 to 3.49. If your LSAT sits at or above 152, you are at or above the school's 75th percentile, and that figure is the one most likely to factor into a scholarship offer — a discussion worth pairing with the scholarship negotiation playbook. If you're below the 25th percentile on either metric, a stronger addendum explaining a GPA dip, an upward grade trend, or a recent LSAT retake becomes more useful than another cycle of waiting.
On the LSAT itself: the test has been Logic-Games-free since August 2024, now built from two scored Logical Reasoning sections and one scored Reading Comprehension section, plus an unscored variable section and a separately submitted, unscored Argumentative Writing sample. Because law schools consider your highest score, and because meaningful score movement typically takes several months of work with official practice material, start prep early enough to sit more than once if needed — see how to study for the LSAT for a general framework. Given that Wilmington's median LSAT is 149, a retake that moves you from the mid-140s to the upper-140s or 150s is the kind of gain that meaningfully repositions your file within this school's own bands.
Wilmington also enrolls a genuinely split class — roughly half full-time (37 seats) and half part-time (38 seats) in the most recent cohort — so if you're weighing a part-time track alongside work or family obligations, that isn't a fringe option here; it's essentially half the entering class. Build your application timeline around whichever track fits your life, and confirm current deadlines and required materials directly with the admissions office, since specific dates and document checklists shift by cycle — a general sequencing framework is at the law school application timeline. Whatever your numbers, a file that explains context (why your GPA trend improved, why your LSAT score understates your reading and reasoning ability, why now is the right time for the JD) does more work at a school like this, where the committee is reading for fit and trajectory rather than sorting by a hard numerical line.
Most Wilmington students who receive aid get less than half of tuition covered: of the 54% of the most recent class receiving a grant, 41 percentage points fell into the "less than half tuition" band, only 11 points landed in the half-to-full range, and just 2% received a full-tuition grant. Practically, that means the typical Wilmington scholarship is a meaningful discount, not a full ride, and most students should plan to finance the majority of the degree through loans, savings, or outside work rather than counting on grant aid to close the gap. The pack reports a median grant of $6,000 for full-time students and a full-time living-expense estimate (off-campus) of $24,622 per year — real numbers to run through your own budget, though the pack does not include a published total cost of attendance, so build your own estimate directly from the school's current financial aid materials rather than relying on a third-party figure.
The federal loan landscape changed in ways that matter for exactly this kind of budget gap. As of July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans are eliminated for new borrowers, and law students — classified as a "professional" program — are capped at $50,000 per year and $200,000 aggregate in Direct Unsubsidized loans, inside an overall $257,500 lifetime federal limit. The 2026-27 rate is roughly 8.07%, plus about a 1.057% origination fee (verify current figures before you borrow, since these terms are set annually). For a Wilmington student who isn't in the 2% receiving full-tuition support, that federal cap plus a modest median grant may still leave a shortfall that has to be met with private loans or personal resources — a gap worth mapping out before enrollment, not after the first tuition bill. General mechanics of how loans and forgiveness interact are covered at law school loans and PSLF.
Repayment structure matters just as much as the borrowing itself. New federal borrowers now choose between a Tiered Standard Plan and the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP), an income-driven option running roughly 1-10% of adjusted gross income with a $10 minimum payment. The Standard Plan is the default enrollment and earns zero credit toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness — so a Wilmington graduate who takes a government or nonprofit job and wants the PSLF clock (120 qualifying monthly payments, about ten years, tax-free forgiveness of what's left) running from day one must affirmatively enroll in RAP rather than let the default apply. Because the pack does not report Wilmington's employment outcomes by sector, this guide can't tell you what share of graduates go on to PSLF-eligible public-service jobs versus private-sector work where direct repayment on salary is the more realistic path — that's a question worth asking the school's career office directly, and it's central to whether PSLF is a live plan for you or a background option.
Given that most Wilmington grant recipients get a partial rather than full discount, the honest financial-planning move is to treat the sticker cost — not the discounted one — as your working assumption unless and until an actual offer letter says otherwise. If cost is a serious constraint, negotiate from your position relative to the school's own median LSAT (149) and GPA (3.13): a file above those numbers is the leverage point for asking about additional grant funding, detailed at law school scholarship negotiation. And before committing, weigh the total borrowing picture against your realistic post-JD income path using the general framework at is law school worth it — since this pack does not include Wilmington-specific bar-passage or employment-outcome data, that comparison should lean heavily on direct questions to the school rather than assumptions.
There is no honest yes-or-no answer here, because the single most important inputs — first-time and ultimate bar passage rates, the percentage of graduates employed in bar-required or JD-advantage jobs, and any breakdown of graduates by employer type or salary — are not publicly reported in Wilmington University School of Law's current ABA data compilation. That gap is itself the answer to a narrower question: you cannot benchmark this school's return on investment against peer schools using the standard metrics, so the worth-it decision has to be built instead from the pieces that are verifiable, plus the general mechanics of how law school financing and the legal job market actually work.
Start with what is documented. Wilmington's entering class runs small — 75 total students split almost evenly between 37 full-time and 38 part-time seats — with an LSAT band of 146 (25th percentile), 149 (median), and 152 (75th percentile), and a GPA band of 2.67, 3.13, and 3.49. If your own numbers sit above the 152/3.49 mark, you are above where three-quarters of the entering class landed; if you're near 146/2.67, you're in the range of the bottom quarter. Neither position tells you your odds of admission — only where you'd sit relative to the class the school actually enrolled, which is the only legitimate use of median data. The acceptance rate of roughly 52% and an entering class built from 273 applications and 142 offers describes a school that is not highly selective on paper, which matters mainly because it shapes who else will be in your section and study groups, not because it predicts your own outcome.
On cost, the pack shows 54% of students receiving some grant aid, with a median grant among full-time recipients of $6,000 — modest relative to typical law school sticker prices. The distribution matters more than the average: 41% of students get grants covering less than half of tuition, 11% get half-to-full coverage, and only 2% get full-tuition-or-more awards. In plain terms, a scholarship at Wilmington is common but usually partial, and the truly transformative full-ride package is rare. The pack's tuition figures show as zero, which almost certainly reflects a reporting gap in the source compilation rather than free tuition — treat that figure as unverified and confirm current tuition directly with the school before making any decision. The one solid cost-of-living figure available, $24,622 annually for students living off campus, is real and should factor into your budget regardless of what tuition turns out to be.
Bar passage and employment data exist for a reason: they are the closest thing to a report card on whether a school's JD actually converts into a license and a job. Their absence from this pack doesn't mean the numbers don't exist — ABA-approved schools file them annually — it means you have homework to do before enrolling. Ask the admissions office directly for the school's most recent ABA Standard 509 Information Report, which every accredited law school must post, and for state bar authority data on first-time pass rates for Wilmington graduates sitting the bar in whichever state you intend to practice. Also ask what share of the last two or three graduating classes landed in bar-required or JD-advantage jobs within ten months of graduation, and how many went to large firms versus government, public interest, or business roles. A school that can answer those questions specifically and confidently is telling you something different than one that deflects to broad enrollment figures.
Even without a verified tuition number, the federal financing rules that will govern your loans are fixed and worth internalizing now. As of July 1, 2026, Grad PLUS loans have been eliminated for new borrowers, and federal Direct Unsubsidized loans for law students are capped at $50,000 per year and $200,000 aggregate, inside an overall $257,500 lifetime federal cap — verify current figures before you borrow, since these thresholds are new and time-sensitive. If Wilmington's real cost of attendance, once confirmed, exceeds what those federal caps and your grant (if any) cover, the shortfall has to come from savings or private loans, which carry different terms and no forgiveness path. On repayment, only two federal plans exist for new borrowers going forward: a Tiered Standard Plan, which earns zero credit toward Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and the Repayment Assistance Plan (RAP), an income-driven option you must actively choose if PSLF is part of your plan. PSLF itself remains intact — forgiveness after 120 qualifying payments in a government or nonprofit job — but it is only relevant if you expect to work in that sector for a decade; it is not a backstop for private-sector debt. For the mechanics of loans and PSLF in more depth, see the shared guide on law school loans and PSLF.
The fact that Wilmington's entering class splits almost evenly between full-time and part-time students (37 versus 38) suggests a program built substantially around students working while they study — a structure that changes the worth-it calculus in your favor if it lets you keep earning income and avoid borrowing for living expenses, and against you if it stretches your time to a JD and delays entry into the job market. Whether that trade-off works depends entirely on your own financial situation, not on anything the school publishes about outcomes.
Given what's known and unknown, a defensible approach is: (1) treat the LSAT/GPA medians as a rough gauge of where you'd sit in the class, not a predictor of admission; (2) get a written, current cost-of-attendance and scholarship offer in hand before assuming any tuition number, including the pack's unverified zero; (3) request the school's most recent 509 report and ask pointed questions about bar passage and employment by category; (4) model your federal loan exposure against the new borrowing caps and decide now whether RAP and PSLF eligibility matter to your plan; and (5) weigh the part-time option seriously if keeping income during school changes your debt picture. None of that produces a probability of success — it produces the information a probability estimate would need, which right now this data pack simply does not contain. For the general framework behind these questions across schools, the shared guide on whether law school is worth it walks through the same math in more detail.