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

The short answer to how to get into Indiana Law School is to hit the medians in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 164 LSAT and a 3.91 GPA. The middle 50 percent scored 158 to 166 on the LSAT and 3.63 to 3.98 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. Admissions figures on this page come from the Indiana University Maurer School 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 program details from Indiana Maurer Law's own published pages.

Here is what makes Indiana Law School distinctive. The Indiana University Maurer School of Law is one of the more accessible strong law schools in the country relative to its credentials. According to Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures, Indiana Maurer Law ranks 33rd most selective of the 36 schools in its LSAT band, and it admitted 35.77 percent of applicants for fall 2025, roughly one in three. It also funds effectively its entire class: Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 100 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards reaching $50,000 at the 75th percentile. The thesis of this page is that Indiana Law School pairs an accessible admissions profile with near-universal, sometimes very large scholarship money and a strong Indiana-and-Chicago placement pipeline, which makes it one of the better value-and-access plays in the Midwest.

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

Indiana Maurer Law posts a 164 LSAT median, a 3.91 GPA median, and a 35.77 percent acceptance rate in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Resident tuition and fees are $38,472 and nonresident $59,522. The table below collects the headline admissions, cost, and outcome numbers for Indiana Law School.

MetricIndiana University Maurer School of Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)158 / 164 / 166GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.63 / 3.91 / 3.98Acceptance rate35.77%Applications1,831Offers of admission655Matriculants from the applicant pool186First-year class186Full-time tuition and feesResident $38,472 / nonresident $59,522Living expenses$25,822Share receiving grants100%Median grant$33,000Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage87.37%Employed at ten months95.5% (189 of 198)

Source: Indiana University Maurer 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 Indiana Maurer Law's ABA bar-passage report. Tuition and living expenses are printed separately in the 509, which does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total.

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

Indiana Maurer Law reports an LSAT spread of 158 to 166 and a GPA spread of 3.63 to 3.98 in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. A 164 and a 3.91 sit at both medians. Below the 158 LSAT or the 3.63 GPA, you need a clear compensating strength on the other number.

Indiana Maurer Law reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 158, 164, and 166, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.63, 3.91, and 3.98 for the fall 2025 entering class, per Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of enrolled students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law scored above 164 on the LSAT and above 3.91 in GPA, and half below. A median is a target rather than a cutoff, but at Indiana Maurer Law both medians set the center of the class.

The LSAT band at Indiana Maurer Law is wide on the low side. From the 25th percentile of 158 to the median of 164 is a six-point drop, while from the median to the 75th of 166 is a two-point rise, according to Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. That asymmetry means Indiana Maurer Law admits a meaningful number of students below its median. A 158, the 25th percentile, is a genuine admit range at Indiana Law School when the rest of the file is strong, which matters because a 158 is a reachable LSAT for many applicants.

The GPA band runs from 3.63 at the 25th to 3.98 at the 75th in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. A 3.63, the bottom quartile, is a solid record that sits below the 3.91 median, so Indiana Maurer Law wants LSAT support when the transcript is in that range. Read the two bands together and they describe a class where a lower number on one axis can be carried by strength on the other, which points directly to how Indiana Law School treats an imbalanced file.

That shape makes Indiana Maurer Law reverse-splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.28 and an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of six points. A reverse-splitter-friendly school forgives a lower LSAT when the GPA is high; a splitter-friendly school forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high. Indiana Maurer Law leans reverse-splitter: a high GPA paired with an LSAT in the high 150s has a genuine path, while a high LSAT with a sub-3.63 GPA is a tougher sell. If your transcript is strong and your LSAT lags, Indiana Law School is a school worth targeting.

Is Indiana Maurer Law harder to get into than its reputation?

No, Indiana Maurer Law is more accessible than its reputation implies. Its 164 LSAT median reads like a competitive national school, but Indiana Maurer Law ranks 33rd most selective of the 36 schools in its LSAT band, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509, and it admits about one applicant in three.

Reputation places the Indiana University Maurer School of Law among the respected Midwest research-university law schools, and its 164 LSAT median in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509 fits that picture. Its selectivity, though, is milder than the median suggests. Lovare built a peer band of the 36 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Indiana Maurer Law's 164, that is a median of 162 to 166, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. By that ranking, Indiana Maurer Law is 33rd most selective of the 36, near the accessible end of the band.

What that means in practice is encouraging for applicants. A 35.77 percent acceptance rate, from Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509, is better than one admit in three, far more forgiving than the rates at the most selective schools that share its 164 median. Indiana Maurer Law reaches its median by drawing a moderate applicant pool of 1,831 and admitting a wide slice of it, which keeps the door open for applicants near or slightly below its medians.

The honest verdict is that Indiana Law School is more reachable than its credentials imply. If you have a 164 LSAT and a 3.91 GPA, you clear both medians at a school that admits a third of applicants, which is a favorable position. And because Indiana Maurer Law is reverse-splitter friendly with a wide LSAT band, applicants somewhat below the median on the LSAT still have a real path when the GPA is strong.

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

Indiana Maurer Law charges $38,472 in resident tuition and fees and $59,522 for nonresidents, per Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509, plus $25,822 in living expenses. Effectively the entire class, 100 percent of students, receives grants, with a median award of $33,000. A nonresident on the median grant nets about $26,522 in tuition before living costs.

Indiana Maurer Law is a public school with a nonresident premium, though the numbers land in value territory once aid is counted. Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists full-time tuition and fees of $38,472 for residents and $59,522 for nonresidents, plus $25,822 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, not a figure Indiana Law School reports, and this page will not invent one.

Aid is the headline here. According to the same 509, 100 percent of Indiana Maurer Law students receive grant aid, effectively the entire enrolled class, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $20,000, $33,000, and $50,000. Indiana Maurer Law reports 2 full-tuition awards and 36 awards above full tuition. A 75th-percentile grant of $50,000 is large, and the near-universal reach means the sticker badly overstates what most students at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law actually pay.

For a typical recipient, the math is favorable. Against the $59,522 nonresident sticker, a student receiving Indiana Maurer Law's median grant of $33,000 nets about $26,522 in tuition and fees before living costs, using figures from Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. For a resident, the same $33,000 median grant covers the large majority of the $38,472 resident tuition and fees, so in-state students at Indiana Law School often pay a small net price.

The aid is stable. Indiana Maurer Law does not use conditional scholarships, per Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509, 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 Indiana Maurer Law quotes at admission is the grant you keep across all three years, which removes a common risk that trips up first-year students at schools that renew awards only above a set class rank.

What are your real chances off the Indiana Maurer Law waitlist?

Indiana Maurer Law does not disclose waitlist admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 186 matriculants against 655 offers is a 28.4 percent yield, per Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. That lower yield means Indiana Maurer Law extends many offers and may lean on its waitlist to finish the class.

Here is the reasoning in full. Indiana Maurer Law enrolled 186 matriculants from 655 offers in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 28.4 percent. No ABA disclosure, Indiana Maurer 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 fewer than three in ten admitted students enroll, a school extends far more offers than it has seats and may turn to its waitlist.

A 28.4 percent yield is on the lower side, which is modestly good news for a waitlisted applicant to Indiana Law School. It means Indiana Maurer Law loses a large share of its admits to competing schools, so the waitlist can move in a way it would not at a high-yield program. That said, a school with a 35.77 percent acceptance rate has less pressure to reach deep into a waitlist, because Indiana Maurer Law can admit widely in the regular rounds.

If you land on the Indiana Maurer Law waitlist, the play is the same as anywhere: send a concise letter of continued interest naming Indiana Maurer Law as a top choice, add any new score or grades, and keep another acceptance in hand. Given the low yield, an Indiana Law School waitlist spot is worth taking seriously, but the wide acceptance rate means much of the class is set in the regular rounds.

One note on the class figures. Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509 lists 186 matriculants from the applicant pool and a first-year class of 186, so the two match exactly this cycle, with no gap from deferred admits. The 28.4 percent implied yield is computed from the 186 matriculants against the 655 offers, which is the correct comparison for reasoning about waitlist odds at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Where do Indiana Maurer Law graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Indiana Maurer Law placed 33.3 percent of graduates in Indiana and 53.0 percent across its top three markets of Indiana, Illinois, and the District of Columbia. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 26.3 percent, and 3.5 percent won federal clerkships.

Indiana Maurer Law anchors the Indiana and Chicago corridor, and the employment data shows it. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Indiana Maurer Law placed 66 of its graduates in Indiana, 27 in Illinois, and 12 in the District of Columbia. That is a 33.3 percent top-market share and a 53.0 percent top-three share: a third of the class stays in Indiana, and the pull toward Chicago in neighboring Illinois is the second-largest market. If your goal is Indiana or the Chicago legal market, Indiana Law School is well positioned for it.

Why lead with concentration rather than the raw employment rate? Because the rate barely separates peer schools. Indiana Maurer Law reported 189 of 198 graduates employed at ten months, or 95.5 percent, in the same ABA Employment Summary, which is excellent but similar across its band. Concentration is what predicts fit. Indiana Maurer Law's network runs deepest in Indiana and Chicago, so an applicant targeting the coasts should weigh that the Indiana University Maurer School of Law sends comparatively few graduates there.

On firm outcomes, Indiana Maurer Law places a solid share in large firms. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 26.3 percent of Indiana Maurer Law graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers. That is roughly a quarter of the class entering large-firm practice, a respectable share for a Midwest public school and a sign that the large-firm path, especially in Chicago, is open from Indiana Law School.

Federal clerkships are a smaller slice at Indiana Maurer Law. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 3.5 percent of Indiana Maurer Law graduates entering federal clerkships. That is a modest clerkship rate, so an applicant whose main goal is a federal clerkship should weigh it against schools that place a larger share, while recognizing that Indiana Maurer Law's strength lies in its regional-firm and Chicago-corridor placement.

When are Indiana Maurer Law's application deadlines?

Indiana Maurer Law's specific application deadlines and any Early Decision terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle. Rather than quote a date that may have shifted, confirm the current deadlines and any ED option directly on Indiana Maurer Law's admissions site. The guidance here is dated: verified August 2026.

This page does not state a specific application deadline or Early Decision term for Indiana Maurer Law, because those dates were not among the primary figures pulled for this profile. Rather than risk quoting a stale date, the honest move is to point you to Indiana Maurer Law's own admissions page for the current cycle's deadlines and to confirm whether the Indiana University Maurer School of Law offers an Early Decision or priority round and on what terms.

As a planning matter, most ABA law schools open applications in the early fall and read files on a rolling basis into the spring, so applying earlier in the cycle generally helps at a rolling-admission school. That is a general pattern rather than an Indiana Maurer Law figure, so treat it as context and verify the specifics. Everything else on this page is dated to August 2026 and drawn from Indiana Maurer Law's primary disclosures, but for deadlines, confirm the current dates on Indiana Law School's site before you rely on them.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Indiana Maurer Law

Is a 164 LSAT good enough for Indiana Maurer Law?

A 164 is exactly the LSAT median at Indiana Maurer Law, according to Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 158 to 166. A 164 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, and at a school that admits about a third of applicants it is a strong position. Pair it with a GPA near the 3.91 median and you are competitive at Indiana Law School.

What GPA do you need for Indiana Maurer Law?

Indiana Maurer Law reports a GPA median of 3.91, with a 25th to 75th range of 3.63 to 3.98, in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. Aim for 3.91 or higher, though the band runs down to 3.63. Because Indiana Maurer Law is reverse-splitter friendly, a strong GPA can offset an LSAT in the high 150s at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

What is Indiana Maurer Law's acceptance rate?

Indiana Maurer Law admitted 35.77 percent of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 655 offers against 1,831 applications, according to Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That is better than one admit in three and ranks Indiana Maurer Law 33rd most selective of the 36 schools in its LSAT band, one of the more accessible schools at its credential level.

How many people apply to Indiana Maurer Law?

Indiana Maurer Law received 1,831 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 655 offers, and enrolled 186 matriculants for a first-year class of 186, per Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. That moderate pool against a large number of offers is what produces Indiana Law School's accessible 35.77 percent acceptance rate.

How much does Indiana Maurer Law cost?

Indiana Maurer Law lists full-time tuition and fees of $38,472 for residents and $59,522 for nonresidents, plus $25,822 in living expenses, in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. The 509 does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total, so tuition and living are best read separately rather than summed into an invented all-in figure for the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

Does Indiana Maurer Law give scholarships?

Yes, to effectively everyone. Indiana Maurer Law reports that 100 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards of $20,000, $33,000, and $50,000 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 2 full-tuition awards and 36 awards above full tuition, according to Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509. The awards are not conditional, so Indiana Law School cannot cut them for grades.

What is Indiana Maurer Law's bar passage rate?

Indiana Maurer Law posted an 87.37 percent first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Indiana as the largest jurisdiction, according to Indiana Maurer Law's ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, was 95.21 percent. Both figures are strong and place the Indiana University Maurer School of Law above the national average.

Where do Indiana Maurer Law graduates work?

Mostly Indiana and Chicago. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Indiana Maurer Law placed 66 graduates in Indiana, 27 in Illinois, and 12 in the District of Columbia, a 33.3 percent top-market share and 53.0 percent across the top three. Indiana Law School is an anchor for the Indiana and Chicago-corridor legal markets.

Can a splitter get into Indiana Maurer Law?

A reverse-splitter has a real path. Lovare reads Indiana Maurer Law as reverse-splitter friendly, with a wide LSAT 25th-to-median spread of six points but a narrower GPA spread of 0.28 in the 2025 ABA 509. That means Indiana Maurer Law forgives a lower LSAT when the GPA is high, so a strong-GPA applicant with an LSAT in the high 150s is viable at the Indiana University Maurer School of Law.

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

Less selective than most. Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures places Indiana Maurer Law 33rd most selective of the 36 schools whose median LSAT is within two points of its 164. In other words, Indiana Law School is more accessible than most schools that post a comparable LSAT median, which is good news for applicants near its numbers.

Is Indiana Maurer Law worth it?

For value and access, the case is strong. Indiana Maurer Law pairs a $38,472 resident sticker with 100 percent grant reach, and in the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, 26.3 percent of graduates entered large firms and 95.5 percent were employed at ten months. Add an 87.37 percent first-time bar rate, and Indiana Law School's outcomes justify its cost, especially in-state.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at an Indiana Maurer Law scholarship?

Scores above the medians. Indiana Maurer Law reports grant awards reaching $50,000 at the 75th percentile in its 2025 ABA 509, and those largest awards go to the strongest files. An LSAT above the 164 median and a GPA above 3.91, toward the 166 and 3.98 upper quartiles, position you best, though the Indiana University Maurer School of Law funds effectively its entire class.

Does every student at Indiana Maurer Law get a scholarship?

Effectively yes. Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509 reports that 100 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards of $20,000, $33,000, and $50,000 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 2 full-tuition awards and 36 above full tuition. In practice, the entire enrolled class at Indiana Law School attends with some grant support, though award sizes vary widely.

Is Indiana Maurer Law a good school for the Chicago job market?

Yes. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 27 Indiana Maurer Law graduates went to Illinois, the school's second-largest market after Indiana and driven largely by Chicago. Combined with a 26.3 percent large-firm rate, that makes Indiana Maurer Law a genuine feeder into the Chicago legal market for students who target it.

Does Indiana Maurer Law have high first-year attrition?

No. Indiana Maurer Law reported 0.0 percent first-year academic attrition in Indiana Maurer Law's 2025 ABA 509, meaning no first-year students were dismissed for academic reasons in the reported year. That is a reassuring signal: students admitted to the Indiana University Maurer School of Law are supported to finish the first year rather than washed out.

Sources

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

Indiana University Maurer School of Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=51&year=2025

Indiana University Maurer School of Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=51&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=51&year=2024

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