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

The short answer to how to get into Georgia State Law School is to reach the medians in Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 160 LSAT and a 3.64 GPA. The middle 50 percent of the entering class scored 158 to 163 on the LSAT and earned 3.45 to 3.82 in GPA. Clear both medians and you are a competitive applicant.

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 Georgia State Law School'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 Georgia State Law's own published ABA reports and pages.

Georgia State Law School is an in-state value play built for one market. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Georgia State Law placed 84.4% of graduates in Georgia, the highest single-market concentration among comparable schools, and its first-time bar passage of 89.95% in exam year 2024 sits in the top tier of the national range. It pairs those outcomes with a resident tuition of $17,596 in Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, well under half of what many private peers charge, and it reported 0.0% first-year academic attrition, meaning no member of the entering class was dismissed for grades. The thesis of this page is that Georgia State Law School is one of the strongest cost-to-outcome bets in the Southeast for an applicant who wants to practice in Atlanta and Georgia, and a very different calculation for anyone aiming out of state.

Georgia State Law School at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

Georgia State Law School posts a 160 LSAT median, a 3.64 GPA median, and a 30.57% acceptance rate in Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Resident tuition and fees run $17,596 and nonresident $39,320. The table below collects the headline admissions, cost, and outcome numbers for the fall 2025 entering class.

MetricGeorgia State Law School (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)158 / 160 / 163GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.45 / 3.64 / 3.82Acceptance rate30.57%Applications2,450Offers of admission749Matriculants from the applicant pool237First-year class237 (184 full-time + 53 part-time)Full-time tuition and feesResident $17,596 / nonresident $39,320Living expenses$26,693Share receiving grants49%Median grant$7,776Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage89.95%Employed at ten months92.9% (196 of 211)

Source: Georgia State Law School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report for the fall 2025 entering class, with employment from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 and bar passage from Georgia State Law's ABA bar-passage report. The 509 prints tuition and living expenses separately and does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so this page does not sum them into an all-in figure.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into Georgia State Law School?

Georgia State Law School reports an LSAT spread of 158 to 163 and a GPA spread of 3.45 to 3.82 in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. A 160 LSAT and a 3.64 GPA sit at both medians. Below the 158 LSAT or the 3.45 GPA, an applicant needs a clear compensating strength on the other number.

Georgia State Law School reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 158, 160, and 163, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.45, 3.64, and 3.82 for the fall 2025 entering class, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of the enrolled class scored above 160 on the LSAT and above 3.64 in GPA, and half scored below. A median is a target rather than a hard cutoff, but at Georgia State Law both medians mark the center of the class and set the level at which an application becomes easy to admit.

The LSAT band at Georgia State Law School is tight at the bottom and wider at the top. From the 25th percentile of 158 to the median of 160 is only two points, while from the median to the 75th of 163 is three points. That narrow lower gap means Georgia State Law admits close to its number: a 158 is a genuine admit range, the bottom of the middle 50 percent, but it wants a GPA at or above the 3.64 median to carry the file. A 163, the 75th percentile, moves you into the comfortable range and strengthens both your admit odds and your scholarship position.

The GPA band runs from 3.45 at the 25th to 3.82 at the 75th, a spread of 0.37. A 3.45 is a solid record but sits at the bottom quartile for Georgia State Law School, so it wants LSAT support at or above 160. Read the two bands together and they describe a class with attainable, well-clustered numbers, which points to how Georgia State Law treats an imbalanced file.

That shape makes Georgia State Law School splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.19 and an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of just two 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. Georgia State Law leans splitter: a high LSAT of 163 or better paired with a GPA below the 3.45 bottom quartile has a real path, while a strong GPA with an LSAT under 158 is the tougher sell, because the LSAT band is so compact. If your LSAT is your stronger number, Georgia State Law School rewards it.

Is Georgia State Law School harder to get into than its reputation?

Georgia State Law School sits a little above the midpoint of its band. Among the 42 ABA law schools whose median LSAT is within two points of Georgia State Law's 160, ranked by acceptance rate, Georgia State Law is the 12th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. That is the upper-middle of its band, a touch tighter than its regional reputation might suggest.

Reputation places Georgia State Law School as a respected public law school in downtown Atlanta, known for practical training and strong in-state placement rather than for national selectivity, and its 160 LSAT median fits that profile. To test the admit gate, Lovare built a peer band of the 42 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Georgia State Law's 160, that is, a median of 158 to 162, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Georgia State Law School comes in 12th of 42, which places it in the upper-middle third of the band.

What that means for you is that Georgia State Law School is modestly harder to get into than a purely regional reputation would imply. The 30.57% acceptance rate reflects genuine demand, driven by the school's low in-state cost and strong Georgia outcomes, so it is not a school you can treat as a safety at the medians. Clear the 160 LSAT and 3.64 GPA medians and you are a strong candidate; sit below both and you are relying on the rest of the file. The honest read is that Georgia State Law's admit gate is a step tighter than its low sticker and local focus might lead you to expect, precisely because that value is widely recognized.

How much does Georgia State Law School cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

Georgia State Law School charges $17,596 in resident tuition and fees and $39,320 for nonresidents, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, plus $26,693 in living expenses. Forty-nine percent of students receive a grant, with a median award of $7,776. The value here is the low resident sticker, not a large discount.

Georgia State Law School is a public school, and its cost structure is the heart of its value case. Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists full-time resident tuition and fees at $17,596 and nonresident tuition and fees at $39,320, plus living expenses of $26,693. The 509 prints tuition and living separately and does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so any all-in annual number quoted elsewhere is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure Georgia State Law reports, and this page will not invent one.

Grants at Georgia State Law School are modest by design, because the resident tuition is already low. According to the same 509, 49% of Georgia State Law students receive grant aid, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $2,336, $7,776, and $10,627. Georgia State Law reports zero full-tuition awards but 82 awards above full tuition, an unusual pattern that reflects the low tuition base: an award only needs to clear a modest tuition figure to count as above full tuition. Read plainly, about half the class receives a grant, and those grants are smaller in dollar terms than the discounts private schools advertise, but they land against a far smaller sticker.

The math is where Georgia State Law School separates from private peers. For a nonresident, against the $39,320 sticker, a student receiving the median grant of $7,776 nets about $31,544 in tuition and fees before living costs, using figures from Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. For a Georgia resident, the picture is dramatically better: against the $17,596 resident sticker, that same $7,776 median grant nets about $9,820 in tuition and fees before living costs. A resident who pays close to that figure for a degree that places 84.4% of graduates into the Georgia market is looking at one of the lowest cost-to-outcome ratios in the region.

One reassurance matters at Georgia State Law School: its scholarships are not conditional. Per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, awards are not tied to a first-year class-rank or GPA threshold, so a grant cannot be cut if your grades slip after the first year. The number Georgia State Law School quotes at admission is the number you keep, which removes the single biggest hidden risk that turns an affordable-looking private offer into a full-freight one.

What are your real chances off the Georgia State Law School waitlist?

Georgia State Law School does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 237 matriculants against 749 offers is a 31.6% yield in Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That is a moderate yield, so Georgia State Law fills much of its class from first-round offers while leaving some room the waitlist can fill.

Here is the reasoning in full. Georgia State Law School enrolled 237 matriculants from 749 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 31.6%. No ABA disclosure, Georgia State 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 about three in ten 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.

A 31.6% yield is moderate, which puts Georgia State Law School between the extremes. 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 Georgia State Law, that means real but limited hope: some cycles see movement, others little, and the outcome turns on how many admits choose the school's in-state value over competing offers in a given year.

If you land on the Georgia State Law School waitlist, the play is the standard one: send a concise letter of continued interest naming Georgia State Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or improved grades, and keep another acceptance in hand as your real plan. One clean note on the class figures: Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure lists 237 matriculants from the applicant pool and a first-year class of exactly 237, made up of 184 full-time and 53 part-time students, so the class filled entirely from this cycle's pool with no gap. The 31.6% implied yield is computed from those 237 matriculants against the 749 offers, which is the correct comparison for reasoning about this cycle's waitlist odds at Georgia State Law School.

Where do Georgia State Law School graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Georgia State Law School placed 84.4% of graduates in Georgia and 86.7% across its top three markets. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 21.3% of graduates, and federal clerkships took 0.9%. Georgia State Law is one of the most single-market-concentrated schools in the country.

Georgia State Law School's employment profile is defined by Georgia itself. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Georgia State Law placed 178 graduates in Georgia, 3 in Texas, and 2 in the District of Columbia. That is an 84.4% top-market share and an 86.7% top-three share, one of the most concentrated single-market profiles you will find at any ABA school: better than eight in ten graduates practice in Georgia, and the second and third markets are barely a rounding difference. If your goal is Atlanta or anywhere in Georgia, Georgia State Law School's network is aimed directly at it. If your goal is another state, that same 84.4% concentration is a clear warning that the school's reach beyond Georgia is thin.

Why lead with concentration rather than the raw employment rate? Because the rate is similar across peers. Georgia State Law School reported 196 of 211 graduates employed at ten months, or 92.9%, in the same ABA Employment Summary, which is strong but unremarkable next to its band. The market concentration is the number that actually predicts fit, and at Georgia State Law it points almost entirely at Georgia.

On firm outcomes, Georgia State Law School is a moderate large-firm feeder. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 21.3% of Georgia State Law graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers. That is a solid minority share for a public regional school, and it tells you roughly one in five graduates enters large-firm practice, most of them presumably in the Atlanta market, while the majority build careers in smaller firms, government, and public interest across Georgia. Federal clerkships are rare here: the same summary shows 0.9% of Georgia State Law School graduates entering federal clerkships, so applicants set on a clerkship should know the school sends very few graduates onto the federal bench.

Read the whole profile together and Georgia State Law School is best understood as a Georgia-employment engine with a strong bar-passage record behind it. Its 89.95% first-time pass rate for exam year 2024, per Georgia State Law's ABA bar-passage report, means graduates clear the Georgia bar at a top-tier rate, which is exactly what you want from a school whose value depends on getting you licensed and working in one specific state.

When are Georgia State Law School's application deadlines?

Georgia State Law School'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 Georgia State Law's admissions site, because those dates shift from year to year and this page will not state a date it cannot verify.

Georgia State Law School, 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. That general rhythm is standard across the market, but the exact opening date, the priority and final deadlines, and whether Georgia State Law offers an Early Decision track with specific terms are details this page did not verify from a primary source. Rather than print a date that might be wrong, this page dates what it can confirm and points you to the school for the rest.

The practical takeaway for Georgia State Law School applicants is to treat the calendar as a competitive variable rather than an afterthought. Because rolling review favors early complete files, aim to have your LSAT taken, your transcripts and letters in, and your application submitted as early in the cycle as your materials allow, which also positions you best for the school's modest grant pool. Confirm the current deadlines and any Early Decision terms on Georgia State Law School'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 Georgia State Law School

Is a 160 LSAT good enough for Georgia State Law?

A 160 is exactly the LSAT median at Georgia State Law School, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 158 to 163. A 160 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, competitive but not a lock. Pair it with a GPA at or above the 3.64 median and you are a strong candidate at Georgia State Law School.

What GPA do you need to get into Georgia State Law?

Georgia State Law School reports a GPA median of 3.64, with a 25th-to-75th range of 3.45 to 3.82, in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Aim for 3.64 or higher. Because Georgia State Law is splitter friendly with a very tight LSAT band, a strong LSAT helps most, but a transcript at or above the median keeps your file inside the core of the class Georgia State Law School enrolls.

What is Georgia State Law's acceptance rate?

Georgia State Law School admitted 30.57% of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 749 offers against 2,450 applications, according to Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Among the 42 schools within two points of its 160 LSAT median, that ranks Georgia State Law School 12th most selective, in the upper-middle of its band rather than a safety.

How many people apply to Georgia State Law each year?

Georgia State Law School received 2,450 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 749 offers, and enrolled 237 matriculants for a first-year class of exactly 237, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That pool against those offers produces the 30.57% acceptance rate and a 31.6% implied yield at Georgia State Law School.

How much does Georgia State Law cost per year?

Georgia State Law School lists resident tuition and fees of $17,596 and nonresident tuition and fees of $39,320, plus living expenses of $26,693, in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Georgia State Law does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total, so tuition and living are read separately. The low resident tuition is the core of the value at Georgia State Law School.

Does Georgia State Law give scholarships?

Yes, to about half the class. Georgia State Law School reports that 49% of students receive grant aid, with awards of $2,336, $7,776, and $10,627 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. The grants are modest in dollar terms, but they land against an already low resident sticker, so the total cost at Georgia State Law School stays low.

Are Georgia State Law scholarships conditional?

No. Georgia State Law School does not use conditional scholarships, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, so an award is not tied to a first-year class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be cut if your grades slip. The grant Georgia State Law School quotes at admission is the grant you keep for all three years, which removes a common hidden financial risk.

What is Georgia State Law's bar passage rate?

Georgia State Law School posted an 89.95% first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Georgia as its largest jurisdiction, according to Georgia State Law's ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate for the 2022 cohort was 94.71%. Both figures are strong and place Georgia State Law School near the top of the national range, which matters for a school whose value depends on Georgia licensure.

Where do most Georgia State Law graduates work?

Almost all stay in Georgia. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Georgia State Law School placed 178 graduates in Georgia, 3 in Texas, and 2 in the District of Columbia, an 84.4% top-market share and 86.7% across the top three. Georgia State Law School has one of the most Georgia-concentrated placement profiles of any ABA law school.

Can a splitter get into Georgia State Law?

A splitter has a real path. Lovare reads Georgia State Law School as splitter friendly, with a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.19 and an LSAT spread of two points in the 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Because the LSAT band is so tight, Georgia State Law rewards a high LSAT most, so a high-LSAT applicant with a sub-3.45 GPA is more viable at Georgia State Law School than the reverse.

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

Georgia State Law School ranks 12th most selective of the 42 ABA schools within two points of its 160 LSAT median, by acceptance rate in the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures, per Lovare's analysis. That is the upper-middle of its band, so Georgia State Law School is modestly harder to get into than its low sticker and regional focus might lead you to expect.

Is Georgia State Law worth the cost?

For a Georgia resident, it is one of the best values in the Southeast. Georgia State Law School pairs a $17,596 resident sticker with an 89.95% first-time bar pass rate, a 92.9% employment rate at ten months, and 84.4% placement in Georgia, per its 2025 ABA 509 and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. The value is strongest for anyone planning to practice in Georgia.

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

Numbers above the medians. Georgia State Law School reports its 75th-percentile grant at $10,627 for students near the 163 LSAT and 3.82 GPA upper quartiles, so an application above the 160 and 3.64 medians competes best for the larger awards, per Georgia State Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Helpfully, Georgia State Law School scholarships are not conditional, so the award you win is the award you keep.

What is Georgia State Law's first-year attrition rate?

Georgia State Law School reported 0.0% first-year academic attrition in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, meaning no member of the entering class was dismissed for academic reasons. That is an unusually clean figure and a genuine reassurance: it signals that Georgia State Law School admits students it expects to carry through the first-year curve rather than enrolling a class it will thin out.

Sources

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

Georgia State Law School 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=175&year=2025

Georgia State Law School ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=175&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=175&year=2024

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