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

The short answer to how to get into Liberty Law School is to reach the medians in Liberty University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 154 LSAT and a 3.54 GPA. The middle 50 percent scored 151 to 158 with a 3.36 to 3.81 GPA. A 154 here is genuinely competitive, not a reach.

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 Liberty University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), employment from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and bar passage from the school's ABA bar-passage report and its own published pages.

Liberty University School of Law places its graduates more widely across the country than almost any regional school, and that national reach is its most distinctive trait. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Liberty Law's single largest market, Virginia, took only 24.1% of graduates, and its top three states together accounted for just 42.9%, meaning a clear majority of the class landed outside Virginia, Texas, and Florida entirely. It is also an accessible, near-universal-aid school: with a 154 LSAT median and a 58.76% acceptance rate in its 2025 ABA 509, Liberty University School of Law is precisely the kind of school where a 154 is competitive rather than a long shot, and effectively every student receives a grant. Two facts every applicant must weigh openly balance that picture: Liberty Law reports 8.0% first-year academic attrition, the highest in this group, and an 85.7% ten-month employment rate that trails its peers. The honest thesis of this page is that Liberty University School of Law is an accessible, nationally dispersed, well-funded option whose admissions door is open but whose first-year rigor and employment numbers deserve a clear-eyed look.

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

Liberty University School of Law posts a 154 LSAT median, a 3.54 GPA median, and a 58.76% acceptance rate in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Full-time tuition and fees run $45,348, living expenses add $26,532, and effectively every student receives a grant. The table collects Liberty Law's headline numbers for the fall 2025 entering class.

MetricLiberty University School of Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)151 / 154 / 158GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.36 / 3.54 / 3.81Acceptance rate58.76%Applications628Offers of admission369Matriculants from the applicant pool140First-year class141Full-time tuition and fees$45,348 (tuition $43,150 plus fees $2,198)Living expenses$26,532Share receiving grants100% (effectively the entire class)Median grant$24,000 (25th $16,000, 75th $32,000)Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage84.82% (exam year 2024, Virginia)Employed at ten months85.7% (96 of 112)

Source: Liberty University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), with employment from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 and bar passage from Liberty Law's ABA bar-passage report. The 509 prints tuition, fees, and living expenses separately and 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 Liberty University School of Law?

Liberty University School of Law reports an LSAT spread of 151 to 158 and a GPA spread of 3.36 to 3.81 in its 2025 ABA 509. A 154 and a 3.54 sit at both medians. Below the 151 LSAT or the 3.36 GPA, an applicant needs a clear compensating strength on the other number.

Liberty University School of Law reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 151, 154, and 158, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.36, 3.54, and 3.81 for the fall 2025 entering class, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of enrolled students at Liberty Law scored above 154 on the LSAT and above 3.54 in GPA, and half below. This is the honest, encouraging point for many applicants: a 154 LSAT is not a weak score at Liberty University School of Law, it is the median, so a candidate scoring around 154 sits at the center of the admitted class rather than reaching for it.

The bands are moderately wide. The LSAT runs from 151 at the 25th to 158 at the 75th, a seven-point spread, and the GPA runs from 3.36 to 3.81, a 0.45 spread. That 151 lower quartile matters: Liberty University School of Law enrolls a real share of students at or below 151, so a score in the low 150s does not close the door if the rest of the file is sound. A median is a target, not a cutoff, and at Liberty Law the target sits low enough that many applicants turned away by higher-median schools are competitive here.

Lovare reads Liberty University School of Law as splitter friendly, with a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.18 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. The GPA band here is fairly tight, at 0.18 from the 25th to the median, so the practical read is measured: a strong LSAT at or above the 154 median helps an applicant whose GPA sits toward the 3.36 lower quartile, but Liberty University School of Law still expects a GPA in the 3.3 range or better from most of its class.

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

Liberty University School of Law is an accessible school, and its numbers say so honestly. Lovare's band analysis places Liberty Law 47th most selective of the 57 ABA schools whose median LSAT is within two points of its 154, using acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509. That lower-band position, paired with a 58.76% acceptance rate, is exactly why a low-150s applicant is competitive here.

Reputation treats Liberty University School of Law as a regional, access-oriented school, and the data is consistent with that rather than at odds with it. Lovare built a peer band of the 57 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Liberty Law's 154, that is a median of 152 to 156, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Liberty University School of Law comes in 47th most selective of the 57, which places it in the more accessible part of a large band. A 58.76% acceptance rate confirms that a majority of applicants receive an offer.

This is where honesty serves the applicant better than spin. A 58.76% acceptance rate and a lower-band position do not make Liberty University School of Law a lesser choice for the right person; they make it a realistic one. For an applicant with a 151 to 158 LSAT and a GPA in the 3.3 to 3.5 range, many higher-ranked schools are genuine reaches, while Liberty Law is a school where that same profile is competitive and draws near-universal grant aid. The constructive read is that Liberty University School of Law is precisely the kind of school an access-minded candidate should target, provided that candidate weighs the school's attrition and employment numbers with clear eyes.

That clear-eyed weighing is the point. Liberty University School of Law reports first-year academic attrition of 8.0% in its 2025 ABA 509, the highest figure in this group, which means a meaningful share of first-year students were dismissed for academic reasons in the reported year. An open admissions door and a demanding first year often travel together, and the honest way to use that pairing is to treat Liberty Law's affordability and near-universal aid as the upside and its first-year rigor as the challenge to prepare for, by arriving ready to work from day one. On the reassuring side, Liberty University School of Law reports a first-time bar passage rate of 84.82% for exam year 2024 in its ABA bar-passage report, a solid figure, so the students who complete the program clear the bar at a strong rate.

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

Liberty University School of Law reports full-time tuition and fees of $45,348 and living expenses of $26,532 in its 2025 ABA 509. Grant aid is effectively universal at 100%, with a median award of $24,000, so a median-grant recipient nets about $21,348 in tuition and fees before living costs. The aid is not conditional.

Start with the sticker. Liberty University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports full-time tuition of $43,150 plus $2,198 in fees, for $45,348 in tuition and fees, and lists living expenses of $26,532 separately. The 509 does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so this page quotes the components the school actually reports rather than a manufactured all-in number. That $45,348 sticker is among the lower full-time tuition-and-fees figures in this group of schools.

The aid picture is the strong part of the story. According to the same 509, Liberty University School of Law awards grants to 100% of its students, phrased by the school as effectively the entire class, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $16,000, $24,000, and $32,000. Liberty Law reports no full-tuition awards and none above full tuition, so the aid is broad rather than top-heavy. Applying the median grant to the tuition-and-fees sticker, a median-grant recipient nets about $21,348 per year in tuition and fees before living costs, which is well under half the posted price. Because effectively every student receives something, the sticker overstates what almost anyone actually pays at Liberty University School of Law.

The aid is also dependable. Liberty University School of Law does not use conditional scholarships, so a grant is not tied to a first-year class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be cut if your grades slip. This matters more than usual here: because Liberty Law reports 8.0% first-year attrition, a conditional award would have compounded the risk of a hard first year, and the school's choice not to use one means the grant it quotes at admission is the grant you keep for all three years at Liberty University School of Law.

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

Liberty University School of Law does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 140 matriculants against 369 offers is a 37.9% yield in the 2025 ABA 509. That moderate yield means Liberty Law fills much of its class from first-round offers, with limited waitlist movement.

Here is the reasoning in full. Liberty University School of Law enrolled 140 matriculants from 369 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 37.9%. No ABA disclosure, Liberty 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 under two in five admitted students enroll, a school makes offers well beyond its target class size and fills most seats from the first round.

A 37.9% yield points to moderate rather than heavy waitlist reliance. Liberty University School of Law extended 369 offers to seat a first-year class of 141, so most seats are spoken for through regular admission. If you land on the Liberty Law waitlist, the standard play still applies: send a concise letter of continued interest naming Liberty University School of Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or grades, and keep another acceptance in hand as your anchor while you wait.

One honest note on the class figures. Liberty University School of Law's 2025 ABA 509 lists 140 matriculants from the applicant pool and a first-year class of 141, a near match that means the class fills almost entirely from this cycle's pool rather than from deferrals or transfers. The 37.9% implied yield is computed from the 140 pool matriculants against the 369 offers, which is the correct comparison for reasoning about this cycle's waitlist odds at Liberty University School of Law.

Where do Liberty University School of Law graduates actually work?

Liberty University School of Law has the most dispersed footprint in this group. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, its single largest market took just 24.1% of graduates and its top three markets reached only 42.9%, spread across Virginia, Texas, and Florida. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 4.5%, and federal clerkships took 0.0%.

Lead with the spread, because it is what sets Liberty Law apart. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Liberty University School of Law placed 27 of its graduates in Virginia, 12 in Texas, and 9 in Florida. That is a 24.1% top-market share, the lowest single-market concentration among the schools in this group, paired with a 42.9% top-three share, which means well over half the class landed outside those three states entirely. Liberty University School of Law draws and places nationally rather than feeding one dominant market, which suits an applicant who wants to practice outside a single state and is not tied to one regional bar.

The raw employment rate is candid and lower than its peers. Liberty University School of Law reported 96 of 112 graduates employed at ten months, or 85.7%, in the same ABA Employment Summary. That is a real figure to weigh: it is a solid majority, but it trails the 90-plus percent rates several schools in this group post, so an applicant should not assume near-automatic placement. The national dispersion is a genuine strength, but Liberty Law's employment rate is the number to plan around, by using the school's career office early and building a target market of your own.

On firm size and clerkships the numbers are candid. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 4.5% of Liberty University School of Law graduates entering large firms of 101 or more lawyers and 0.0% entering federal clerkships. The zero clerkship share is worth stating plainly: for the Class of 2024, Liberty Law did not place a graduate into a federal clerkship, so an applicant whose central goal is a federal clerkship should not choose Liberty University School of Law expecting that path. The school's graduates concentrate in smaller firms, government, and public-service roles across many states.

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

This page's sources do not specify Liberty University School of Law's application deadlines or its Early Decision terms. Both should be confirmed directly on Liberty Law's admissions page rather than taken from any date this page cannot verify. The guidance here is dated: it reflects what was verifiable in August 2026.

Because the school's Early Decision terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle, Liberty University School of Law applicants should treat the school's own admissions page as the authority on deadlines, decision rounds, and whether any early or binding option exists. Cycle dates shift from year to year, so verify the current timeline on Liberty Law's site before you plan around it, and do not rely on a date this page does not publish.

The numbers still support a timing strategy. Liberty University School of Law drew 628 applications and extended 369 offers for a first-year class of 141, per its 2025 ABA 509. With effectively every student receiving grant aid, the scholarship stakes reward an early, complete application even at an accessible school, because the strongest early files tend to draw the largest awards. Apply to Liberty University School of Law when your file is ready and your LSAT is at its best, and confirm the current dates on the school's site.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Liberty University School of Law

Is a 154 LSAT good enough for Liberty University School of Law?

Yes. A 154 is exactly the LSAT median at Liberty University School of Law, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 151 to 158. A 154 puts you at the center of the admitted class, competitive rather than reaching. Pair it with a GPA near the 3.54 median and you are a solid candidate at Liberty University School of Law.

What GPA do you need for Liberty University School of Law?

Liberty University School of Law reports a GPA median of 3.54, with a 25th to 75th range of 3.36 to 3.81, in its 2025 ABA 509. Aim for 3.54 or higher, but a GPA down toward the 3.36 lower quartile remains competitive when paired with an LSAT at or above the 154 median at Liberty University School of Law.

What is Liberty University School of Law's acceptance rate?

Liberty University School of Law admitted 58.76% of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 369 offers against 628 applications, according to its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That accessible rate, together with a 47th of 57 standing in its LSAT band, makes Liberty University School of Law a realistic target for an applicant scoring in the low-to-mid 150s.

How many people apply to Liberty University School of Law?

Liberty University School of Law received 628 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 369 offers, and enrolled 140 matriculants from the pool for a first-year class of 141, per its 2025 ABA 509. The near match between matriculants and class size shows Liberty University School of Law fills its class almost entirely from this single cycle.

How much does Liberty University School of Law cost?

Liberty University School of Law reports full-time tuition and fees of $45,348, made up of $43,150 tuition and $2,198 in fees, plus $26,532 in living expenses, per its 2025 ABA 509. The disclosure prints no single combined cost-of-attendance total. With effectively universal grant aid, most students at Liberty University School of Law pay well below the sticker.

Does Liberty University School of Law give scholarships?

Yes, effectively universally. Liberty University School of Law reports that 100% of students receive grant aid, with awards of $16,000, $24,000, and $32,000 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, per its 2025 ABA 509. Those grants are not conditional, so a Liberty University School of Law award cannot be cut for grades, which matters given the school's demanding first year.

What is Liberty University School of Law's bar passage rate?

Liberty University School of Law posted an 84.82% first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Virginia as the largest jurisdiction, according to its ABA bar-passage report. That is a solid first-time rate. Its ultimate pass rate for the 2022 cohort was 88.52%, so most Liberty University School of Law graduates who sit for the bar pass within two years of graduating.

Where do Liberty University School of Law graduates work?

Across many states. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Liberty University School of Law placed 27 graduates in Virginia, 12 in Texas, and 9 in Florida, a 24.1% top-market share and just 42.9% across the top three. Liberty University School of Law has the most nationally dispersed footprint in this group rather than a single dominant market.

Can a splitter get into Liberty University School of Law?

Somewhat. Lovare reads Liberty University School of Law as splitter friendly, with a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.18 and an LSAT spread of three points in the 2025 ABA 509. The GPA band is fairly tight, so a strong LSAT at or above 154 helps an applicant whose GPA sits near the 3.36 lower quartile, but Liberty University School of Law still expects a GPA in the 3.3 range from most of its class.

How selective is Liberty University School of Law compared with schools at the same LSAT?

Liberty University School of Law is 47th most selective of the 57 ABA schools whose median LSAT is within two points of its 154, ranked by acceptance rate in the 2025 ABA 509, per Lovare's analysis. That lower-band standing means Liberty University School of Law is more accessible than most schools posting the same median LSAT, which is what makes it a realistic target.

Is Liberty University School of Law worth it?

It depends on your goals and your candor about risk. Liberty University School of Law offers effectively universal grant aid, a low $45,348 sticker, and an 84.82% first-time bar rate, per its 2025 ABA 509 and bar-passage report, but its 8.0% first-year attrition and 85.7% employment rate are real limits. For a prepared, nationally minded applicant with aid, Liberty University School of Law can be worth it with eyes open.

What is Liberty University School of Law's first-year attrition rate?

Liberty University School of Law reports first-year academic attrition of 8.0% in its 2025 ABA 509, the highest in this group, meaning a meaningful share of first-year students were dismissed for academic reasons in the reported year. Plan to work hard from day one. Because Liberty University School of Law does not use conditional scholarships, a hard first year does not additionally threaten your grant aid.

What is Liberty University School of Law's ultimate bar passage rate?

Liberty University School of Law reports an ultimate bar passage rate of 88.52% for the 2022 cohort, measured within two years of graduation, per its ABA bar-passage report. That sits above its 84.82% first-time rate, which means a share of Liberty University School of Law graduates who do not pass on the first attempt ultimately pass on a later one.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at a Liberty University School of Law scholarship?

Scores above the medians. Because Liberty University School of Law reports 100% grant reach and a 75th-percentile award of $32,000 in its 2025 ABA 509, an LSAT above the 154 median toward the 158 upper quartile paired with a GPA above 3.54 toward 3.81 positions you for the largest awards at Liberty University School of Law, even though the school reports no full-tuition tier.

Sources

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

Liberty University School of Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=199&year=2025

Liberty University School of Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=199&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=199&year=2024

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