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

The short answer to how to get into Gonzaga Law School is to hit the medians in Gonzaga University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, a 155 LSAT and a 3.55 GPA. The middle 50 percent scored 153 to 158 on the LSAT and 3.24 to 3.76 in GPA. Clear 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 Gonzaga University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report for the fall 2025 entering class, the employment figures from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and the bar-passage figures from Gonzaga Law's ABA bar-passage report, together with the school's own published pages.

The single most distinctive fact about Gonzaga University School of Law is that its grant aid is nearly universal. Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure reports that 98 percent of students receive grants, with a median award of $32,000 against a full-time tuition-and-fees sticker of $58,787, so a typical recipient nets about $26,787 in tuition and fees before living costs. Almost no one pays the sticker price. The second distinctive fact is geographic: in the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Gonzaga Law sent 92 of 166 graduates into Washington, a 55.4 percent top-market share, making it a clear Washington and inland Northwest feeder. The thesis of this page is that Gonzaga University School of Law is a regional school whose value case rests on near-universal, mid-five-figure scholarships and a strong 92.74 percent ultimate bar-passage rate, and that an applicant near the 155 and 3.55 medians should treat scholarship size, not admission, as the real question.

Gonzaga University School of Law at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

Gonzaga University School of Law posts a 155 LSAT median, a 3.55 GPA median, and a 51.14 percent acceptance rate in Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Full-time tuition and fees are $58,787, and 98 percent of students receive grant aid. The table below gathers the headline admissions, cost, and outcome numbers for Gonzaga Law.

MetricGonzaga University School of Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)153 / 155 / 158GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.24 / 3.55 / 3.76Acceptance rate51.14%Applications1,273Offers of admission651Matriculants from the applicant pool201First-year class203Full-time tuition and fees$58,787Living expenses$17,105Share receiving grants98%Grant amount (25th / 50th / 75th)$27,000 / $32,000 / $34,140Full-tuition awards12 full-tuition, 0 above full tuitionConditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage79.74% (exam year 2024, Washington)Employed at ten months80.7% (134 of 166)

Source: Gonzaga University School of Law'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 Gonzaga Law's ABA bar-passage report. Tuition and fees and living expenses are printed separately in the 509, which does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so this page does not invent one.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into Gonzaga University School of Law?

Gonzaga University School of Law reports an LSAT spread of 153 to 158 and a GPA spread of 3.24 to 3.76 in its 2025 ABA 509. A 155 LSAT and a 3.55 GPA sit at both medians. Below the 153 LSAT or the 3.24 GPA you need a clear compensating strength on the other number, though Gonzaga Law's 51.14 percent acceptance rate keeps the realistic range fairly wide.

Gonzaga Law reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 153, 155, and 158, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.24, 3.55, and 3.76 for the fall 2025 entering class, per Gonzaga University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of enrolled students scored above 155 on the LSAT and above 3.55 in GPA, and half scored below. Because Gonzaga Law admitted just over half of its applicants, those medians describe the center of the class rather than a wall, and applicants a point or two under them are admitted every cycle.

The realistic read at Gonzaga University School of Law is that the medians are a target, not a cliff. A 155 and a 3.55 put you comfortably inside the class, and the 25th percentiles of 153 and 3.24 are workable numbers given the 51.14 percent admit rate. The honest caveat is that sitting at or below both 25th percentiles at once weakens a file, so if your LSAT is 153 you want a GPA near or above the 3.55 median, and if your GPA is 3.24 you want an LSAT near or above 155. Lift one number and Gonzaga Law moves from plausible to strong.

The shape of the two bands makes Gonzaga University School of Law splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.31 against an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of just 2 points, so the GPA band runs comparatively wide while the LSAT band is tight. 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. Gonzaga Law leans splitter, so a strong LSAT can offset a transcript toward the 3.24 quartile, but because the LSAT band is narrow, the LSAT itself carries real weight in the read.

Is Gonzaga University School of Law harder to get into than its reputation?

Gonzaga University School of Law sits squarely in the middle of its selectivity band, neither notably harder nor notably easier than its regional reputation implies. Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures ranks Gonzaga Law 37th most selective of the 60 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of its 155, and its acceptance rate is 51.14 percent. It is a mid-pack admit for its scoring band.

To test reputation against selectivity, Lovare built a peer band of the 60 ABA law schools whose median LSAT lands within two points of Gonzaga Law's 155, that is, a median of 153 to 157, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Gonzaga University School of Law comes in 37th most selective of the 60, a little past the middle of the pack. That is the honest read: Gonzaga Law is about as selective as a typical school posting the same 155 median, with roughly half the field admitting a larger share and roughly half admitting a smaller one.

The acceptance-rate detail fills in the picture. A 51.14 percent acceptance rate, from Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, means the school admitted just over half of everyone who applied, extending 651 offers against 1,273 applications to fill a first-year class of 203. That is a selective-but-attainable profile: not a coin flip you can ignore, but not a long shot for a candidate at the medians. For you, the practical takeaway is that a file at or slightly above the 155 and 3.55 medians is in genuine contention at Gonzaga University School of Law, while a file well below both 25th percentiles faces real resistance.

The honest verdict is that Gonzaga University School of Law is neither a hidden reach nor a sure thing. Its reputation as the established law school of the inland Northwest lines up reasonably well with its mid-band selectivity. The place to focus effort is not on clearing an unusually hard gate, because there is not one, but on scoring above the medians to compete for the larger scholarships, since aid is where Gonzaga Law's real leverage sits.

How much does Gonzaga University School of Law cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

Gonzaga University School of Law charges $58,787 in full-time tuition and fees, per Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509, plus $17,105 in living expenses. Ninety-eight percent of students receive grants, with a median award of $32,000. Against the sticker, a median-grant recipient nets about $26,787 in tuition and fees before living costs, so almost no one pays full price.

Gonzaga University School of Law carries a private-school sticker, but the aid picture reshapes it dramatically. Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists full-time tuition and fees at $58,787 plus $17,105 in living expenses. 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 Gonzaga Law reports, and this page will not invent one.

What sets Gonzaga Law apart is how nearly universal its grant aid is. According to the same 509, 98 percent of Gonzaga University School of Law students receive grant aid, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $27,000, $32,000, and $34,140. That distribution is unusually compressed and unusually high at the floor: even the 25th-percentile award is $27,000, so the great majority of the class receives a substantial, mid-five-figure discount. Gonzaga Law reports 12 full-tuition awards and no awards above full tuition, so full rides exist but are limited, and the school's value story is really about the broad, deep discounting that reaches almost everyone rather than about a handful of full scholarships.

For a typical recipient the math is straightforward. Against the $58,787 sticker, a student receiving Gonzaga University School of Law's median grant of $32,000 nets about $26,787 in tuition and fees before living costs, using figures from Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. One detail lowers the risk further: Gonzaga Law's 509 reports that Gonzaga University School of Law does not use conditional scholarships, so an award is not tied to a first-year class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be cut if your grades slip during the first year. The grant Gonzaga Law quotes at admission is the grant you keep for all three years, which makes the number in your offer letter a figure you can actually budget around.

What are your real chances off the Gonzaga University School of Law waitlist?

Gonzaga University School of Law does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 201 matriculants against 651 offers is a 30.9 percent yield in Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509. That is a moderate yield, so the class fills substantially from first-round offers and the waitlist tends to move less than at a low-yield school.

Here is the reasoning in full. Gonzaga University School of Law enrolled 201 matriculants from 651 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 30.9 percent. No ABA disclosure, Gonzaga Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted from the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield is the honest proxy for waitlist movement. When roughly three in ten admitted students enroll, a school is filling most of its class from its direct offers and leans on the waitlist mainly to top off remaining seats.

A 30.9 percent yield is moderate, and that sets realistic expectations for a waitlisted applicant to Gonzaga University School of Law. Because Gonzaga Law admits just over half of applicants and enrolls about three in ten of them, it generally has the offer volume to fill its class through the regular round, so a waitlist spot is best treated as a live but secondary possibility rather than a strong probability. The more reliable route in is an early, complete regular-decision file that puts you in the first offer round.

If you do land on the Gonzaga University School of Law waitlist, work it the standard way: send a concise letter of continued interest naming Gonzaga Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or improved grades, and keep another acceptance in hand. Given the moderate yield, a Gonzaga Law waitlist spot is worth working actively, but the surer path into the school is a strong application submitted early rather than reliance on late movement.

Where do Gonzaga University School of Law graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Gonzaga University School of Law concentrated its graduates in Washington, which took 92 of 166 graduates, or 55.4 percent, with California and Arizona next. The top three markets accounted for 63.3 percent. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 5.4 percent, and 0.0 percent won federal clerkships. Gonzaga Law is a Washington and inland Northwest feeder.

Gonzaga University School of Law is a regional school, and the employment data shows both its home base and its reach. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Gonzaga Law placed 92 of its graduates in Washington, 9 in California, and 4 in Arizona. That is a 55.4 percent top-market share and a 63.3 percent top-three share, so more than half of graduates stay in Washington and roughly two-thirds land within the Washington, California, and Arizona group. The top-three concentration signals a school anchored in Washington and the inland Northwest, with a thinner secondary presence down the West Coast. If you want to practice in Washington, Gonzaga Law aims squarely there; if your target is the East Coast or the South, the concentration warns that its reach thins quickly outside the West.

Concentration matters more than the raw rate. Gonzaga University School of Law reported 134 of 166 graduates employed at ten months, or 80.7 percent, in the same ABA Employment Summary, a figure that is on the softer side and worth weighing honestly against peers. Where you can practice is the clearer signal: Gonzaga Law's network is strongest in Washington, so an applicant whose goal is Spokane, Seattle, or the surrounding region is buying into exactly the market this degree serves best.

On firm size and clerkships, Gonzaga University School of Law reads as a regional-practice school rather than a national BigLaw or clerkship feeder. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 5.4 percent of Gonzaga Law graduates entering large firms of 101 or more lawyers and 0.0 percent entering federal clerkships, meaning no graduate in that class took a federal clerkship. Those shares are honest to name: most Gonzaga Law graduates build careers in small and midsize firms, government, and business across Washington and the inland Northwest, not in national large-firm practice or the federal clerkship track. Choose Gonzaga University School of Law for a regional career, and treat a large-firm or clerkship outcome as the exception.

When are Gonzaga University School of Law's application deadlines?

This page's sources do not publish Gonzaga University School of Law's application calendar, and Gonzaga Law's Early Decision terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle. Confirm the current regular deadlines and any Early Decision terms directly on the school's admissions site. The guidance here is dated: verified August 2026.

The primary sources behind this page, the 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and Gonzaga Law's ABA bar-passage report, report admissions, cost, and outcome figures but not the cycle-by-cycle application calendar. For that reason this page does not state a specific regular-decision deadline for Gonzaga University School of Law, and it does not state specific Early Decision terms, because those terms are not confirmed here. The honest instruction is to verify the current deadlines and any binding Early Decision terms on Gonzaga Law's own admissions page before you rely on them, rather than trust a date this page cannot source.

As general practice across law schools rather than a published Gonzaga Law rule, applying earlier in a cycle tends to help, because more seats and more scholarship money are available before a class fills. That principle matters at Gonzaga University School of Law, where aid reaches almost the entire class but the largest awards, including the 12 full-tuition packages, go to the strongest and earliest files. Take your strongest LSAT before you apply, and treat Gonzaga Law's admissions page as the authority on the exact dates, verified as of August 2026.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Gonzaga University School of Law

Is a 155 LSAT good enough for Gonzaga Law?

A 155 is exactly the LSAT median at Gonzaga University School of Law, per Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 153 to 158. Because Gonzaga Law admitted 51.14 percent of applicants, a 155 gives you a genuinely competitive file. Pair it with a GPA near the 3.55 median and turn your attention to scholarship size, since aid at Gonzaga Law reaches almost everyone.

What GPA do you need for Gonzaga Law?

Gonzaga University School of Law reports a GPA median of 3.55, with a 25th-to-75th range of 3.24 to 3.76, in its 2025 ABA 509. Aim for 3.55 or higher, but the 3.24 quartile is workable given Gonzaga Law's 51.14 percent acceptance rate. Because the school is splitter friendly, a strong LSAT can carry a GPA that sits toward the bottom of that range.

What is Gonzaga Law's acceptance rate?

Gonzaga University School of Law admitted 51.14 percent of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 651 offers against 1,273 applications, according to Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Lovare's analysis ranks Gonzaga Law 37th most selective of the 60 schools within two points of its 155 median, so it sits in the middle of its scoring band for selectivity.

How many people apply to Gonzaga Law?

Gonzaga University School of Law received 1,273 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 651 offers, and enrolled 201 matriculants from the pool for a first-year class of 203, per Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509. That offer count against the class size gives Gonzaga Law its 51.14 percent acceptance rate and an implied yield of 30.9 percent.

How much does Gonzaga Law cost?

Gonzaga University School of Law lists full-time tuition and fees of $58,787 plus $17,105 in living expenses in its 2025 ABA 509. Gonzaga Law does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total in the 509, so tuition and living are best read separately. With a $32,000 median grant, a typical recipient nets about $26,787 in tuition and fees before living costs.

Does Gonzaga Law give scholarships?

Yes, nearly universally. Gonzaga University School of Law reports that 98 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards of $27,000, $32,000, and $34,140 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 12 full-tuition awards, per Gonzaga Law's 2025 ABA 509. That means almost the entire class attends at a substantial discount, which is the school's strongest value point.

What is Gonzaga Law's bar passage rate?

Gonzaga University School of Law posted a 79.74 percent first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Washington as the largest jurisdiction, according to Gonzaga Law's ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, was 92.74 percent. The strong ultimate figure shows that the large majority of Gonzaga Law graduates who sit for a bar exam eventually pass.

Where do Gonzaga Law graduates work?

Most stay in Washington. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Gonzaga University School of Law placed 92 of 166 graduates in Washington, 9 in California, and 4 in Arizona, a 55.4 percent top-market share and 63.3 percent across the top three. Gonzaga Law is strongest for applicants who want to practice in Washington and the inland Northwest.

Can a splitter get into Gonzaga Law?

A splitter has a real path. Lovare reads Gonzaga University School of Law as splitter friendly, with a wider GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.31 against a tight LSAT spread of 2 points in the 2025 ABA 509. That means Gonzaga Law forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, so a strong-LSAT applicant with a GPA toward the 3.24 quartile is viable, though the narrow LSAT band means the test score carries weight.

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

Gonzaga University School of Law is mid-pack for its band. Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures ranks Gonzaga Law 37th most selective of the 60 schools whose median LSAT sits within two points of its 155. In plain terms, it is about as selective as a typical school posting the same 155 median, with roughly half its band admitting more and half admitting fewer applicants.

Is Gonzaga Law worth it?

For a Washington or inland Northwest career, the value case is solid, mostly because of aid. Gonzaga University School of Law reports 98 percent grant reach and a $32,000 median award in its 2025 ABA 509, cutting the $58,787 sticker to about $26,787 for a typical recipient, plus a strong 92.74 percent ultimate bar-passage rate. The return is best for those aiming at the region the degree serves.

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

Scores above the medians. Because Gonzaga University School of Law discounts almost the entire class but reserves its 12 full-tuition awards for the strongest files, an LSAT above the 155 median toward the 158 upper quartile, paired with a GPA above 3.55 toward the 3.76 quartile, positions you for the top of Gonzaga Law's grant range, where the 75th-percentile award reaches $34,140 and full tuition is in play.

Is Gonzaga Law easy to get into?

It is attainable but not a sure thing. Gonzaga University School of Law admitted 51.14 percent of applicants in its 2025 ABA 509, and Lovare ranks it 37th most selective of the 60 schools within two points of its 155 median. A file at or above the 155 and 3.55 medians is genuinely competitive, while a file well below both 25th percentiles faces real resistance at Gonzaga Law.

How is the first year at Gonzaga Law?

Gonzaga University School of Law reports first-year academic attrition of 3.0 percent in its 2025 ABA 509. That means a small share of first-year students leave Gonzaga Law for academic reasons, a modest figure typical of its band. For an incoming student it signals that the great majority who start at Gonzaga Law advance to the second year without academic trouble.

Sources

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

Gonzaga University School of Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=159&year=2025

Gonzaga University School of Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=159&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=159&year=2024

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