How to Get Into Florida A&M Law School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

The short answer to how to get into Florida A&M Law School is to reach the medians in FAMU Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 152 LSAT and a 3.48 GPA. The middle 50 percent of the fall 2025 entering class scored 149 to 155 on the LSAT and earned 3.18 to 3.74 in GPA. If your LSAT sits in the low 150s, FAMU Law is exactly where that score is 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. Admissions figures on this page come from Florida A&M University College of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report for the fall 2025 entering class, employment figures from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and bar passage and other details from FAMU Law's own published ABA reports and pages.

Florida A&M University College of Law is an access-mission public law school in Orlando, a historically Black institution whose admit gate runs tighter than its 152 median would suggest and whose public tuition makes it one of the more affordable paths to a law degree in this set. Among the 41 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of FAMU Law's 152, ranked by acceptance rate, Florida A&M University College of Law is the 5th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. It admitted 34.67 percent of a 1,546-applicant pool. The honest counterweight to that access mission is on the outcome side: FAMU Law reports first-year academic attrition of 13.0 percent, a 75.38 percent first-time bar passage rate, and a 76.5 percent employment rate at ten months in its ABA disclosures, all of which an applicant should weigh openly. The thesis of this page is that Florida A&M University College of Law is a genuine, affordable opportunity for applicants in the low-150s LSAT range, and that the honest way to use it is to go in clear-eyed about both the opportunity and the attrition risk.

Florida A&M Law School at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

Florida A&M University College of Law posts a 152 LSAT median, a 3.48 GPA median, and a 34.67 percent acceptance rate in FAMU Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. FAMU Law bills tuition per credit hour, so no annual sticker appears in the 509. The table below gathers the core FAMU Law numbers for the fall 2025 entering class.

MetricFlorida A&M University College of Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)149 / 152 / 155GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.18 / 3.48 / 3.74Acceptance rate34.67%Applications1,546Offers of admission536Matriculants from the applicant pool177First-year class177 (150 full-time and 27 part-time)Full-time tuition and feesBilled per credit hour; the 2025 ABA 509 prints no annual full-time figure (resident $456 per credit, non-resident $1,098 per credit, plus $175 per credit in fees)Living expenses$39,030Share receiving grants45%Median grant$7,500Conditional scholarshipsNo (an award is not cut for grades)First-time bar passage75.38%Employed at ten months76.5% (78 of 102)

Source: Florida A&M University College of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report for the fall 2025 entering class, FAMU Law's ABA bar-passage report, and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. FAMU Law bills tuition per credit hour, and the 509 prints no single annual full-time tuition figure and no combined cost-of-attendance total, so this page does not quote either. Florida A&M University College of Law also reports first-year academic attrition of 13.0 percent in the same 509, which this page addresses directly below. Verified August 2026.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into Florida A&M Law School?

Florida A&M University College of Law reports an LSAT spread of 149 to 155 and a GPA spread of 3.18 to 3.74 in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. A 152 LSAT and a 3.48 GPA sit at both medians. Below the 149 LSAT or the 3.18 GPA, an applicant needs a clear compensating strength on the other number. If your LSAT is in the low 150s, this is a school where that score is genuinely competitive.

FAMU Law reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 149, 152, and 155, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.18, 3.48, and 3.74 for the fall 2025 entering class, per Florida A&M University College of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of the enrolled class scored above 152 on the LSAT and above 3.48 in GPA, and half scored below. This matters because the national conversation often treats a low-150s LSAT as a dead end, and it is not. At FAMU Law a 152 sits right at the median, and even a 149 falls inside the reported middle 50 percent. If your score is in that range, Florida A&M University College of Law is precisely the kind of school where you are a real candidate rather than a long shot.

The LSAT band at Florida A&M University College of Law spans six points, from 149 at the 25th to 155 at the 75th. That is a comparatively wide band, which tells you FAMU Law enrolls a range of scores rather than a tight cluster. A 149 is a genuine admit range but wants a GPA at or above the 3.48 median to carry the file, while a 155 puts you at the top quartile and strengthens both your admit odds and your position for the school's above-full-tuition awards. A score below 149 moves outside the reported middle 50 percent and needs a strong GPA to offset it at Florida A&M University College of Law.

The GPA band is wide too, running from 3.18 at the 25th to 3.74 at the 75th, a spread of 0.56. A 3.18 is a modest college record that sits at the bottom quartile for FAMU Law, so it needs LSAT support at or above the 152 median. The width of both bands signals a school that reads the whole file rather than screening hard on a single cutoff, which is consistent with an access mission that looks for potential beyond raw numbers.

That shape makes Florida A&M University College of Law splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.3 and an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of three points. A splitter-friendly school forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high; a reverse-splitter-friendly school forgives a lower LSAT when the GPA is high. FAMU Law leans splitter: a 155 LSAT paired with a GPA below the 3.18 bottom quartile has a real path, while a strong GPA with an LSAT well under 149 is the tougher sell. If your LSAT is your stronger number, Florida A&M University College of Law is a school where that strength counts.

Is Florida A&M Law School harder to get into than its reputation?

Florida A&M University College of Law is somewhat harder to get into than its median score suggests. Among the 41 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of FAMU Law's 152, ranked by acceptance rate, FAMU Law is the 5th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. It is more selective than most schools at the same median, even though its overall 34.67 percent admit rate remains accessible.

Reputation tends to file Florida A&M University College of Law by its access mission and its status as a historically Black public law school rather than by a selectivity ranking, and its 152 LSAT median, read cold, would suggest a broadly accessible admit gate. The selectivity data adds nuance. Lovare built a peer band of the 41 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of FAMU Law's 152, that is, a median of 150 to 154, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Florida A&M University College of Law comes in 5th of 41, which means only four schools with a comparable median admit a smaller share of their applicants.

The demand figures explain the ranking. FAMU Law drew 1,546 applications and made 536 offers for the fall 2025 class, per Florida A&M University College of Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, a 34.67 percent acceptance rate. That is genuinely accessible, better than one in three applicants receives an offer, but it is tighter than most schools at the same median, which is what puts FAMU Law near the top of its band. The honest read is a balanced one: Florida A&M University College of Law is an accessible school in absolute terms and a competitive one relative to its band. An applicant in the low-150s range who applies early with a clean file is a real candidate, and should not mistake the accessible headline rate for an automatic admit.

How much does Florida A&M Law School cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

Florida A&M University College of Law bills tuition per credit hour, so its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure prints no single annual full-time figure, and this page will not invent one. The 509 does list resident tuition of $456 per credit, non-resident tuition of $1,098 per credit, an additional $175 per credit in fees, and living expenses of $39,030. On aid, 45 percent of students receive grants, with a median grant of $7,500.

Start with the honest limitation. Like other Florida public law schools, Florida A&M University College of Law does not report an annual full-time tuition and fees figure in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, because FAMU Law is a public university that bills tuition on a per-credit-hour basis. What the 509 does report is resident tuition of $456 per credit hour, non-resident tuition of $1,098 per credit hour, and an added $175 per credit hour in fees. Because the annual figure depends on how many credits a student takes each term, a clean annual sticker cannot be derived from the 509 without inventing a credit-hour assumption, and this page will not do that. Any single all-in annual number quoted elsewhere for FAMU Law is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure Florida A&M University College of Law reports. The 509 does list living expenses of $39,030 separately.

The affordability story here is real and structural. Resident tuition of $456 per credit hour is among the lowest public rates in this set, which makes Florida A&M University College of Law an unusually low-cost route to a law degree for a Florida resident who establishes residency. That built-in affordability, rather than a scholarship, is the core of the FAMU Law value case, and it is a meaningful counterweight to the outcome figures discussed below. A non-resident pays $1,098 per credit hour plus the same $175 per credit in fees.

Aid at Florida A&M University College of Law is modest and reaches a minority of the class. According to the same 509, 45 percent of FAMU Law students receive grant aid, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $5,000, $7,500, and $10,000. FAMU Law reports 0 full-tuition awards and 20 above-full-tuition awards, so the very top of the ladder is thin, and most students rely on the low resident tuition rather than a large grant to make the cost work. One favorable detail: Florida A&M University College of Law's scholarships are not conditional, per the 509, so a grant cannot be cut for landing in the bottom half of the first-year curve.

That last point leads to the disclosure that matters most at Florida A&M University College of Law, and it is not about scholarships. FAMU Law reports first-year academic attrition of 13.0 percent in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, meaning roughly one in eight first-year students did not continue for academic reasons. That is high relative to most schools in this set, and it is the single fact an applicant should weigh most carefully. It does not mean a given admit will struggle, but it does mean that Florida A&M University College of Law's first-year curve washes out a meaningful share of the class, so the affordable tuition comes paired with real academic risk. Before enrolling, ask the FAMU Law admissions office directly what share of that attrition is academic dismissal versus voluntary withdrawal, and what academic support the school provides in the first year. Going in with that information is how you use an access-mission opportunity responsibly at Florida A&M University College of Law.

What are your real chances off the Florida A&M Law School waitlist?

Florida A&M University College of Law does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 177 matriculants against 536 offers is a 33.0 percent yield in FAMU Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That is a moderate yield, so FAMU Law fills much of its class from first-round offers while leaving some room the waitlist can fill.

Here is the reasoning in full. Florida A&M University College of Law enrolled 177 matriculants from 536 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 33.0 percent. No ABA disclosure, FAMU Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted off the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield is the honest proxy for waitlist movement. When roughly a third of admitted students enroll, a school extends more offers than seats and relies on predictable melt, which usually means the waitlist is a live but secondary tool rather than the main way the class is built at Florida A&M University College of Law.

A 33.0 percent yield is moderate, which puts FAMU Law in the middle of the range. It is higher than a school that yields a quarter of its offers and leans hard on its waitlist, and lower than a school that yields close to half and barely moves its list. For a waitlisted applicant to Florida A&M University College of Law, that means real but limited hope: some cycles see movement, others little, and the outcome turns on how the deposited class lands in a given year and how many admits choose FAMU Law over competing offers.

If you land on the Florida A&M University College of Law waitlist, the play is the standard one: send a concise letter of continued interest naming FAMU Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or improved grades, and keep another acceptance in hand as your real plan. At FAMU Law the matriculant and first-year class figures line up cleanly, 177 and 177, so the implied-yield reasoning rests on a straightforward comparison of the 177 matriculants against the 536 offers at Florida A&M University College of Law.

Where do Florida A&M Law School graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Florida A&M University College of Law placed 60.8 percent of graduates in Florida and 68.6 percent across its top three markets. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 9.8 percent of graduates, and federal clerkships took 1.0 percent. FAMU Law is a Florida-centered school with a modestly wider geographic spread than its in-state peers.

Lead with market concentration. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Florida A&M University College of Law placed 62 graduates in Florida, 4 in Georgia, and 4 in New Jersey. That is a 60.8 percent top-market share and a 68.6 percent top-three share. Florida still anchors the class, but the appearance of Georgia and New Jersey, and the lower top-market concentration than other Florida schools in this set, tells you FAMU Law graduates spread somewhat more widely, likely reflecting the national reach of its alumni network. If your plan is to practice in Florida, the pipeline is there; if it is elsewhere in the Southeast or the mid-Atlantic, FAMU Law has at least a modest presence in those markets.

On overall placement, Florida A&M University College of Law reports a figure that an applicant should weigh honestly. The same ABA Employment Summary shows 78 of 102 graduates employed at ten months, or 76.5 percent, which is below the rate at several schools in this set. That is a real number, and it belongs in any value calculation about FAMU Law: a lower employment rate means a smaller margin for error, and it raises the importance of using the school's career-services resources aggressively from the first year. On firm size, Florida A&M University College of Law sent 9.8 percent of graduates to large firms of 101 or more lawyers, a small share that reflects a class oriented toward smaller firms, government, and public-interest practice rather than large-firm work.

Federal clerkships round out the picture. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 1.0 percent of Florida A&M University College of Law graduates entering federal clerkships, a modest share consistent with a practice-oriented class. Read the whole profile together and FAMU Law is best understood as a Florida-centered school with a somewhat wider footprint than its in-state peers, a modest large-firm presence, and an employment rate that is one of the honest trade-offs of the access-mission and affordability case for Florida A&M University College of Law.

When are Florida A&M Law School's application deadlines?

Florida A&M University College of Law's specific application deadlines and any Early Decision terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle. If you are planning a cycle, confirm the current regular-decision deadline and any binding or non-binding Early Decision option directly on FAMU Law's admissions site, because those dates shift from year to year and this page will not state a date it cannot verify. What this page can date is the data: the figures here were verified in August 2026.

Florida A&M University College of Law, like most ABA law schools, runs a rolling admissions cycle that typically opens in the early fall and reviews files as they are completed, which rewards applying early in the window when more seats and more scholarship money remain. Because FAMU Law is more selective than most schools at its median, applying early is a real edge: with 1,546 applicants competing for 536 offers, a complete file submitted in the first weeks of the cycle meets a fuller set of open seats than one submitted late. The general rhythm is standard across the market, but the exact opening date, the priority and final deadlines, and whether Florida A&M University College of Law offers an Early Decision track with specific terms are details this page did not verify from a primary source.

The practical takeaway for FAMU Law applicants is to treat the calendar as a competitive variable rather than an afterthought. Aim to have your LSAT taken, your transcripts and letters in, and your application submitted as early in the cycle as your materials allow. Confirm the current deadlines and any Early Decision terms on Florida A&M University College of Law's admissions page before you rely on them, because a page like this one is a planning aid verified in August 2026, not the registrar of record.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Florida A&M Law School

Is a 152 LSAT good enough for FAMU Law?

Yes. A 152 is exactly the LSAT median at Florida A&M University College of Law, per FAMU Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 149 to 155. A 152 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, so with a GPA at or near the 3.48 median and a clean file, a low-150s LSAT makes you a genuinely competitive candidate at Florida A&M University College of Law rather than a long shot.

What GPA do you need to get into FAMU Law?

Florida A&M University College of Law reports a GPA median of 3.48, with a 25th-to-75th range of 3.18 to 3.74, in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Aim for 3.48 or higher. Because FAMU Law is splitter friendly, a strong LSAT can help carry a GPA in the low 3.2s or below, but a transcript at or above the median keeps your file inside the competitive core at Florida A&M University College of Law.

What is FAMU Law's acceptance rate?

Florida A&M University College of Law admitted 34.67 percent of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 536 offers against 1,546 applications, according to FAMU Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Among the 41 schools within two points of its 152 LSAT median, that ranks Florida A&M University College of Law 5th most selective, so it is accessible in absolute terms but competitive within its band.

How many people apply to FAMU Law each year?

Florida A&M University College of Law received 1,546 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 536 offers, and enrolled 177 matriculants for a first-year class of 177, per FAMU Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That class splits into 150 full-time and 27 part-time students, so Florida A&M University College of Law runs a part-time program alongside its day division.

How much does FAMU Law cost per year?

Florida A&M University College of Law bills tuition per credit hour, so its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure prints no annual full-time figure. The 509 lists resident tuition of $456 per credit, non-resident tuition of $1,098 per credit, an added $175 per credit in fees, and living expenses of $39,030. The low resident per-credit rate makes Florida A&M University College of Law one of the more affordable options in this set, though the annual total should be confirmed with FAMU Law.

Does FAMU Law give scholarships?

To a minority of students. Florida A&M University College of Law reports that 45 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards of $5,000, $7,500, and $10,000 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 20 above-full-tuition awards and 0 full-tuition awards, per FAMU Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Aid is modest at Florida A&M University College of Law, so the low resident tuition, not a grant, is the main affordability lever.

What is FAMU Law's first-year attrition rate?

Florida A&M University College of Law reports first-year academic attrition of 13.0 percent in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, meaning roughly one in eight first-year students did not continue for academic reasons. That is high relative to this set and the most important fact to weigh. Before enrolling, ask FAMU Law what share is academic dismissal versus voluntary withdrawal and what first-year academic support Florida A&M University College of Law provides.

What is FAMU Law's bar passage rate?

Florida A&M University College of Law posted a 75.38 percent first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Florida as its largest jurisdiction, according to FAMU Law's ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate for the 2022 cohort was 70.34 percent. Both figures sit below many schools in this set, so treat bar preparation as a serious, early priority at Florida A&M University College of Law.

Where do most FAMU Law graduates work?

Mostly Florida, with a wider spread than its in-state peers. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Florida A&M University College of Law placed 62 graduates in Florida, 4 in Georgia, and 4 in New Jersey, a 60.8 percent top-market share and 68.6 percent across the top three. FAMU Law reaches somewhat beyond Florida, so the network has at least modest presence in the Southeast and mid-Atlantic.

Do FAMU Law graduates get large-firm jobs?

A small share do. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Florida A&M University College of Law sent 9.8 percent of graduates to large firms of 101 or more lawyers. Most of the FAMU Law class lands in smaller firms, government, and public-interest roles, so if large-firm work is your primary goal, weigh that share honestly against your plans at Florida A&M University College of Law.

Can a splitter get into FAMU Law?

A splitter has a real path. Lovare reads Florida A&M University College of Law as splitter friendly, with a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.3 and an LSAT spread of three points in the 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That means FAMU Law forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, so a 155 LSAT with a sub-3.18 GPA is more viable at Florida A&M University College of Law than a high GPA paired with an LSAT well under 149.

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

Florida A&M University College of Law ranks 5th most selective of the 41 ABA schools within two points of its 152 LSAT median, by acceptance rate in the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures, per Lovare's analysis. Only four schools with a comparable median admit a smaller share of applicants, so FAMU Law is competitive within its band even though its 34.67 percent overall admit rate remains accessible at Florida A&M University College of Law.

Is FAMU Law worth the cost?

It depends on your priorities. Florida A&M University College of Law offers low resident per-credit tuition and a real access-mission opportunity for low-150s applicants, per FAMU Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, but the 13.0 percent first-year attrition, 75.38 percent first-time bar rate, and 76.5 percent employment rate are honest trade-offs to weigh. For a cost-conscious Florida resident who goes in clear-eyed, Florida A&M University College of Law can be worth it.

Sources

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

Florida A&M University College of Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=195&year=2025

Florida A&M University College of Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=195&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=195&year=2024

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