How to Get Into Baylor Law School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

How to get into Baylor Law School starts with a surprise: it is more selective than its regional reputation implies. According to Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the fall 2025 entering class posted an LSAT median of 164 (159 to 165) and a GPA median of 3.77 (3.49 to 3.89). Hit both and you are competitive.

By Ali Unar, Georgetown Law, Founder of Lovare Institut. Ali Unar is a Georgetown Law student and the founder of Lovare Institut, an admissions and LSAT-prep practice built on primary-source law school data. Verified August 2026. The admissions figures on this page come from Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), the employment figures from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and the remaining detail from Baylor Law's own pages.

The single most distinctive fact about Baylor Law is that it admits a smaller share of applicants than most schools at its academic level. Among the 36 ABA law schools whose median LSAT sits within two points of Baylor Law's 164, ranked by acceptance rate, Baylor Law is the 7th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Baylor Law's 20.59% acceptance rate is genuinely low for a school with a 164 LSAT median, and that gap between how selective Baylor Law actually is and how a mid-major Texas reputation might read is the thesis this page returns to. Paired with an exceptional scholarship reach and a near-perfect bar record, Baylor Law rewards a serious, early application more than its profile suggests.

Baylor Law at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

Baylor Law is a selective private school with a standout bar record. According to Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the fall 2025 class posted a 164 LSAT median, a 3.77 GPA median, and a 20.59% acceptance rate. Baylor Law bills tuition per credit hour, and living expenses are listed at $25,023. The table collects the core numbers.

MetricBaylor Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)159 / 164 / 165GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.49 / 3.77 / 3.89Acceptance rate20.59%Applications3,658Offers of admission753Matriculants from the pool165First-year class165Full-time tuition and feesBilled per credit hour; the 509 prints no single annual figureLiving expenses$25,023Share receiving grants97% of studentsMedian grant$33,518Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage94.92%Employed at ten months98.0% (194 of 198)

Source: Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), Baylor Law's ABA bar-passage report, and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. Baylor Law bills tuition on a per-credit-hour basis, and its 509 does not print a single annual full-time tuition figure, so this page states that reality plainly rather than computing an annual total the disclosure does not report.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into Baylor Law?

You realistically need a 164 LSAT and a 3.77 GPA to sit at the center of Baylor Law's class. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure puts the LSAT middle at 159 to 165 and the GPA middle at 3.49 to 3.89. Below either 25th percentile, the other number has to carry a clear compensating strength.

Take the two numbers one at a time. The Baylor Law LSAT median is 164, with a 25th percentile of 159 and a 75th percentile of 165, per Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The band is lopsided: only one point separates the 164 median from the 165 upper quartile, but a full five points separate the median from the 159 bottom quartile. That shape tells you Baylor Law will read a file scoring in the low 160s or high 150s seriously, well below the median, while a 165 already reaches the top quarter of the class. An LSAT under 159 puts real pressure on the GPA and the rest of the application to compensate.

The GPA band is also workable. The Baylor Law GPA median is 3.77, with a 25th percentile of 3.49 and a 75th percentile of 3.89, according to the same disclosure. The distance from the 25th percentile to the median is 0.28 of a point, a meaningful spread that means Baylor Law will seriously consider a GPA in the low-to-mid 3.5s when the LSAT is strong. A 3.89 reaches the top quarter, and a 3.49 sits at the bottom quarter but stays inside Baylor Law's admitted range rather than ruling a candidate out.

So what does a realistic Baylor Law profile look like? A 164 LSAT paired with a 3.77 GPA lands an applicant squarely at both medians, per Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, a competitive center-of-class position at a school admitting about one applicant in five. Fall below the 159 LSAT or the 3.49 GPA and you need a clear compensating strength on the other number. On the splitter question, Baylor Law is splitter friendly: its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.28 and an LSAT spread of 5 points, so the GPA band is the more forgiving of the two. A splitter-friendly school forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, and Baylor Law leans that way, so a high-LSAT applicant carrying a GPA in the mid-3.5s has a genuinely realistic path.

Is Baylor Law harder to get into than its reputation?

Yes, and by a clear margin. Baylor Law is more selective than a regional Texas reputation would suggest. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports a 20.59% acceptance rate, which ranks it 7th most selective of the 36 leading schools within two LSAT points of its 164 median. Its admit rate sits well below its academic band.

To judge the Baylor Law acceptance rate fairly, compare it only against schools with a similar academic profile. Among the 36 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Baylor Law's 164, that is a median of 162 to 166, ranked by acceptance rate, Baylor Law is the 7th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. That places Baylor Law in the top fifth of its own academic band: 29 of the 36 schools sharing its LSAT profile admit a larger share of applicants than Baylor Law's 20.59%.

The practical reading matters for how you plan. Baylor Law is often filed mentally as a solid regional school rather than a hard admit, but the numbers say otherwise: at 20.59%, Baylor Law admits roughly one applicant in five, a rate more selective than most schools with the same 164 LSAT median. One reason is class size. Baylor Law enrolled a first-year class of just 165 for fall 2025 out of 3,658 applications, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, and a small target class pushes the admit rate down even at a moderate LSAT profile. Put another way, Baylor Law extended 753 offers to seat 165 students, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, a wide offer pool that keeps the class full while holding the admit rate at a selective 20.59%. The takeaway for an applicant is to treat Baylor Law as a genuine target rather than a safety, and to apply early with a file built to the medians.

How much does Baylor Law cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

Baylor Law bills tuition per credit hour, and its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure prints no single annual full-time figure, so this page does not compute one. What the 509 does report is generous aid: 97% of Baylor Law students receive a grant, with a median award of $33,518, and the scholarships are not conditional on grades.

Start with the honest limit on cost. Baylor Law bills tuition on a per-credit-hour basis, and its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure does not print a single annual full-time tuition figure the way a flat-rate private school does. Because Baylor Law charges by the credit hour rather than at a flat annual rate, a single annual sticker is not a number the 509 reports, and this page will not invent one. Living expenses, which the 509 does print, are $25,023 for the year. Any all-in annual total quoted elsewhere for Baylor Law is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure the disclosure states.

The aid picture, by contrast, is unusually strong and clearly reported. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 97% of students receive a grant, an unusually high share, with grant amounts at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $18,000, $33,518, and $57,873. Baylor Law made 89 full-tuition awards and 31 awards above full tuition, according to the same disclosure, which is a remarkable concentration of large awards for a class of 165: a substantial portion of the entering class receives a grant covering tuition entirely or exceeding it. Taken together, those come to 120 awards at or beyond full tuition set against an entering class of 165, per the same disclosure, which underscores how heavily Baylor Law competes on scholarship money. Because Baylor Law does not report an annual tuition sticker, this page cannot compute a clean net-tuition figure the way it can for a flat-rate school, and it will not estimate one.

One consumer-protective point works in the applicant's favor at Baylor Law. According to Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, its scholarships are not conditional, so a first-year award cannot be cut for landing in the bottom half of the curve. The grant you are quoted in your offer is the grant you keep, which removes the renewal risk that some schools attach to first-year merit money. With 97% of students receiving aid and 89 full-tuition awards on offer, the strategic move is to push your LSAT and GPA as high as possible, because at Baylor Law those numbers drive both admission and the size of the discount.

What are your real chances off the Baylor Law waitlist?

Better than at most schools, because Baylor Law's yield is low. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure records 753 offers and 165 matriculants, an implied yield of 21.9%. No ABA disclosure publishes waitlist admits, so implied yield is the honest proxy: a low 21.9% yield means Baylor Law sends many offers per seat and can lean on its waitlist.

Here is the reasoning in full. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports 753 offers of admission and 165 matriculants drawn from the applicant pool, which is an implied yield of 21.9%. No ABA disclosure, Baylor Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted off the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield is the honest stand-in for waitlist movement. The logic is that when a school converts only 21.9% of its offers into enrollments, it sends more than four and a half offers for every seat it fills, which is a comparatively inefficient class-building process that often relies on a waitlist to finish the class.

For a waitlisted applicant, that low yield is genuinely encouraging. A 21.9% implied yield is low in absolute terms, and it signals that Baylor Law does not fill its small class from first-round commitments alone, so its waitlist can move in a way that a high-yield school's does not. The honest limit is that Baylor Law, like every school, does not publish year-to-year waitlist admit counts, so movement varies by cycle. If you are on the Baylor Law waitlist, a concise letter of continued interest reaffirming Baylor Law as a first choice is worth sending, because a school building a 165-seat class from a broad offer pool values applicants who signal they will enroll.

Where do Baylor Law graduates actually work?

In Texas, with a notable clerkship share. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Texas took 86.9% of Baylor Law graduates and the top three markets took 89.9%. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers hired 13.1% of the class, while federal clerkships took an above-average 6.6%. Concentration and that clerkship pipeline, not the raw rate, define fit.

The most useful fact about Baylor Law's outcomes is how firmly they stay in state. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Baylor Law placed 172 graduates in Texas, 3 in Colorado, and 3 in the District of Columbia, its three largest markets. Texas alone absorbed 86.9% of the class, and the top three markets together took 89.9%, per the same summary. In practice a Baylor Law degree is a Texas degree, feeding the state's courts and firms above all, with only a thin scattering of graduates starting outside Texas.

By employer type, Baylor Law's profile differs from the big-firm Texas schools. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 13.1% of Baylor Law graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers, a comparatively small large-firm share. In its place, Baylor Law shows a stronger clerkship pipeline: 6.6% of the class took federal clerkships, per the same summary, an above-average share that reflects Baylor Law's litigation-focused reputation and its ties to the Texas and federal bench. The honest read is that Baylor Law is less a national BigLaw feeder and more a Texas trial-and-clerkship school.

The overall placement rate is strong. The same ABA Employment Summary shows 194 of 198 Baylor Law graduates employed at ten months, a 98.0% rate, and Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports first-year academic attrition of 1.0%, so almost no one who starts at Baylor Law washes out academically. The reason to weigh Baylor Law on concentration and job type rather than that 98.0% headline is that near-total employment is common among well-regarded schools; what distinguishes Baylor Law is its Texas-first, clerkship-strong shape.

When are Baylor Law's application deadlines?

Baylor Law admits new students across multiple start terms under its distinctive calendar, but this page does not print a specific deadline date because the packet behind it did not pull one. The honest instruction is to confirm Baylor Law's current deadlines, and any early-decision terms, directly on the school's admissions site. This guidance is dated August 2026.

On early decision specifically, Baylor Law's ED terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle, so rather than state a binding-or-not rule or a date that might be wrong, this page notes the absence plainly: if you are weighing an early application to Baylor Law, confirm whether Baylor Law offers an Early Decision round, whether it is binding, and what its deadline is, on the school's own admissions page before you rely on it. Because the packet behind this page did not pull Baylor Law's specific deadline dates or entry-term structure, checking the school's official admissions page is especially important before you plan around a target date. Application cycle dates shift from year to year, so treat Baylor Law's official site as the registrar of record. What this page can say with confidence, verified in August 2026, is that a strong Baylor Law application benefits from being complete early, because seats and scholarship dollars are more plentiful earlier in a cycle at a school with a class of only 165.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Baylor Law

Is a 164 LSAT good enough for Baylor Law?

A 164 is exactly Baylor Law's LSAT median, per Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, so it is good enough to be competitive rather than safe. Half of the fall 2025 class scored at or above 164 and half below, inside a 159 to 165 middle range. Paired with a GPA at or near the 3.77 median, a 164 puts a Baylor Law applicant squarely at the center of the admitted class.

What GPA do you need for Baylor Law?

Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports a GPA median of 3.77, with a 25th percentile of 3.49 and a 75th percentile of 3.89. Realistically you want a GPA of at least 3.49 to stay inside Baylor Law's admitted band, and because Baylor Law is splitter friendly, a strong LSAT at or above 164 can offset a GPA in the mid-3.5s in the school's read of the file.

What is Baylor Law's acceptance rate?

Baylor Law's acceptance rate is 20.59%, computed as 753 offers against 3,658 applications in Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That ranks Baylor Law 7th most selective among the 36 leading schools within two LSAT points of its 164 median, in the top fifth of its academic band. About one applicant in five receives an offer from Baylor Law in a given cycle.

How many people apply to Baylor Law?

Baylor Law received 3,658 applications for its fall 2025 entering class, according to Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. From that pool, Baylor Law extended 753 offers of admission and enrolled 165 matriculants, building a first-year class of 165. The wide gap between 753 offers and 165 enrollments reflects a low 21.9% yield, which is why Baylor Law's waitlist can move in a given cycle.

How much does Baylor Law cost?

Baylor Law bills tuition per credit hour, and its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure prints no single annual full-time tuition figure, so this page does not quote one. Living expenses are listed at $25,023 for the year. Because Baylor Law reports no annual tuition sticker, a clean net-tuition figure after the median grant cannot be computed from the 509, and this page will not estimate one.

Does Baylor Law give scholarships?

Yes, and very broadly. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 97% of students receive a grant, with a median award of $33,518 and grants reaching a $57,873 upper quartile. Baylor Law made 89 full-tuition awards and 31 awards above full tuition, and its scholarships are not conditional, so a first-year grant at Baylor Law cannot be cut for grades.

What is Baylor Law's bar passage rate?

Baylor Law's ABA bar-passage report shows a first-time pass rate of 94.92% for the 2024 exam year, with Texas as the largest jurisdiction, a strong first-time pass rate. The ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, is 100.0%, per the same report. In short, nearly every Baylor Law graduate who sits for the bar passes, and eventually all of the 2022 cohort did.

Where do Baylor Law graduates work?

Overwhelmingly in Texas. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Texas taking 172 Baylor Law graduates (86.9%), Colorado 3, and the District of Columbia 3, so the top three markets account for 89.9% of the class. Baylor Law sends a smaller share to large firms (13.1%) than the Texas BigLaw schools, and a stronger share, 6.6%, into federal clerkships.

Can a splitter get into Baylor Law?

Yes, and the high-LSAT splitter has the edge. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.28 and an LSAT spread of 5 points, so the GPA band is the more forgiving one. That makes Baylor Law splitter friendly: an applicant with a 164-or-better LSAT and a GPA in the mid-3.5s fits the profile Baylor Law admits readily.

Why does Baylor Law not list an annual tuition figure?

Baylor Law bills tuition by the credit hour rather than at a flat annual rate, so its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure prints no single yearly full-time tuition number. That is why this page states the per-credit reality plainly and does not compute an annual total or a net-tuition figure after the median grant. Baylor Law's living expenses are listed separately at $25,023, and its median grant is $33,518.

How selective is Baylor Law compared with schools at the same LSAT?

Near the top of its band. Among the 36 leading schools with a median LSAT within two points of Baylor Law's 164, ranked by acceptance rate, Baylor Law is 7th most selective at 20.59%, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Twenty-nine band peers admit a larger share of applicants than Baylor Law does, so its admit rate runs below its academic profile.

Is Baylor Law worth it?

The outcomes make a strong case. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows 97% of students receiving grants with a $33,518 median and 89 full-tuition awards, and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 98.0% of graduates employed at ten months. Add a 94.92% first-time bar rate, and Baylor Law delivers a well-supported path into the Texas legal market.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at a Baylor Law scholarship?

The highest you can post, because Baylor Law awards merit aid to nearly everyone. Per Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, grants reach a $57,873 upper quartile, with 89 full-tuition and 31 above-full-tuition awards. An LSAT at or above the 165 upper quartile paired with a GPA near the 3.89 top quarter gives the strongest shot at a full-tuition award at Baylor Law, since those numbers drive scholarship size.

Does Baylor Law have high first-year attrition?

No. Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports first-year academic attrition of 1.0%, meaning almost no member of the entering class was dismissed for grades in the first year. For an applicant, that is reassuring: once you are admitted to Baylor Law and enroll, the school is not using the first-year curve to force students out, and your scholarship is not conditional either.

How large is Baylor Law's entering class?

Baylor Law enrolled a first-year class of 165 for fall 2025, drawn from 165 matriculants, according to Baylor Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That small class was built from 753 offers against 3,658 applications. The contained class size is one reason Baylor Law's acceptance rate lands at a selective 20.59% despite a 164 LSAT median, since few seats push the admit rate down.

Sources

Every figure on this page is drawn from primary disclosures, listed here so readers can verify each one directly.

Baylor Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=149&year=2025

Baylor Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=149&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=149&year=2024

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