How to Get Into St. Thomas Law School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

The short answer to how to get into St. Thomas Law School is to reach the medians in St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 152 LSAT and a 3.42 GPA. The middle 50 percent of the fall 2025 entering class at this Miami school scored 150 to 156 on the LSAT and earned 3.12 to 3.65 in GPA. If your LSAT is in the low 150s, St. Thomas Law is exactly where that score is competitive.

By Ali Unar, Georgetown Law, Founder of Lovare Institut. Ali Unar is a Georgetown Law student and the founder of Lovare Institut, an admissions and LSAT-prep practice built on primary-source law school data. Verified August 2026. Admissions figures on this page come from St. Thomas University College of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report for the fall 2025 entering class, employment figures from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and bar passage and other details from St. Thomas Law's own published ABA reports and pages. This is the St. Thomas in Miami, Florida, not the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota.

St. Thomas University College of Law is one of the more accessible admits in its band and pairs that open gate with a scholarship discount that nearly halves tuition for a median recipient, an access-mission Miami school built for applicants in the low-150s LSAT range. Among the 42 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of St. Thomas Law's 152, ranked by acceptance rate, St. Thomas University College of Law is the 32nd most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures, meaning it admits a larger share of applicants than most schools at its median. According to St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, 64 percent of students receive grants with a median award of $25,320, and in the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, 81.5 percent of graduates were employed at ten months. The honest counterweights sit in the fine print: St. Thomas Law's scholarships are conditional, and the school reports 10.0 percent first-year academic attrition. The thesis of this page is that St. Thomas University College of Law is an accessible, well-discounted path into Florida practice, and that the conditional-scholarship terms and the first-year curve are the two things to read most carefully before you enroll.

St. Thomas Law School at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

St. Thomas University College of Law posts a 152 LSAT median, a 3.42 GPA median, and a 60.25 percent acceptance rate in St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Full-time tuition and fees run $47,578, and 64 percent of students receive grants against that sticker. The table below gathers the core St. Thomas Law numbers for the fall 2025 entering class.

MetricSt. Thomas University College of Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)150 / 152 / 156GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.12 / 3.42 / 3.65Acceptance rate60.25%Applications1,771Offers of admission1,067Matriculants from the applicant pool424First-year class431Full-time tuition and fees$47,578 (tuition $44,730 plus fees $2,848)Living expenses$42,548Share receiving grants64%Median grant$25,320Conditional scholarshipsYes (an award can be reduced or cut for grades)First-time bar passage80.89%Employed at ten months81.5% (203 of 249)

Source: St. Thomas University College 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 St. Thomas 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. St. Thomas University College of Law also reports first-year academic attrition of 10.0 percent in the same 509, which this page addresses directly below. Verified August 2026.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into St. Thomas Law School?

St. Thomas University College of Law reports an LSAT spread of 150 to 156 and a GPA spread of 3.12 to 3.65 in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. A 152 LSAT and a 3.42 GPA sit at both medians. Below the 150 LSAT or the 3.12 GPA, an applicant needs a clear compensating strength on the other number. A low-150s score is genuinely competitive here.

St. Thomas Law reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 150, 152, and 156, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.12, 3.42, and 3.65 for the fall 2025 entering class, per St. Thomas University College of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of the enrolled class scored above 152 on the LSAT and above 3.42 in GPA, and half scored below. The applicants who most need to hear this are those with scores in the low 150s who have been told that range closes doors. At St. Thomas Law a 152 sits right at the median and a 150 falls inside the reported middle 50 percent, so if your score is there, St. Thomas University College of Law is precisely the kind of school where you are a strong candidate rather than a long shot.

The LSAT band at St. Thomas University College of Law runs from 150 at the 25th to 156 at the 75th, with the median at 152. That the 75th percentile of 156 sits four points above the median, while the 25th of 150 is only two points below, tells you St. Thomas Law enrolls a meaningful group of students above its median who likely competed for the school's larger scholarships. A 150 is a genuine admit range but wants a GPA at or above the 3.42 median to carry the file, while a 156 strengthens both your admit odds and your position for aid.

The GPA band is wide, running from 3.12 at the 25th to 3.65 at the 75th, a spread of 0.53. A 3.12 is a modest college record that sits at the bottom quartile for St. Thomas University College of Law, so it needs LSAT support at or above the 152 median. The width of both bands signals a school that reads the whole file rather than screening hard on a single cutoff, which fits its access mission and its 60.25 percent acceptance rate.

That shape makes St. Thomas University College of Law splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.3 and an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of 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. St. Thomas Law leans splitter: a 156 LSAT paired with a GPA below the 3.12 bottom quartile has a real path, while a strong GPA with an LSAT well under 150 is the tougher sell. If your LSAT is your stronger number, St. Thomas University College of Law is a school where that strength counts.

Is St. Thomas Law School harder to get into than its reputation?

St. Thomas University College of Law is more accessible than most schools at its median. Among the 42 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of St. Thomas Law's 152, ranked by acceptance rate, St. Thomas Law is the 32nd most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. With a 60.25 percent acceptance rate, it admits a larger share of applicants than most of its band, which for a low-150s applicant is genuinely good news.

Reputation files St. Thomas University College of Law as an access-mission Catholic law school in Miami with a diverse student body, and the selectivity data fits that profile. Lovare built a peer band of the 42 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of St. Thomas Law's 152, that is, a median of 150 to 154, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. St. Thomas University College of Law comes in 32nd of 42, near the accessible end of the band, which means most schools with a comparable median admit a smaller share of their applicants than St. Thomas Law does.

The demand figures show why. St. Thomas Law drew 1,771 applications and made 1,067 offers for the fall 2025 class, per St. Thomas University College of Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, a 60.25 percent acceptance rate. When three in five applicants receive an offer, admission is realistic for a well-prepared candidate in the score band, and the harder questions shift from getting in to getting the right scholarship and finishing well. The honest read is that St. Thomas University College of Law is an accessible admit that is if anything easier than its reputation implies, so the applicant's real work is on the value side: securing aid, understanding the conditional-scholarship terms, and planning for a first-year curve that, as the next sections show, washes out a real share of the class at St. Thomas Law.

How much does St. Thomas Law School cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

St. Thomas University College of Law charges $47,578 in full-time tuition and fees, per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, plus $42,548 in living expenses. Sixty-four percent of students receive a grant, with a median award of $25,320. A student receiving that median grant nets about $22,258 in tuition and fees before living costs, a discount of more than half.

Start with the sticker. St. Thomas University College of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists full-time tuition and fees at $47,578, made up of $44,730 in tuition and $2,848 in fees, and living expenses at $42,548. 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 for St. Thomas Law is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure the school reports, and this page will not invent one. Note that the Miami living-expense figure of $42,548 is high, in fact higher than the tuition line, so budget for it carefully.

The scholarship discount is the strongest part of the St. Thomas University College of Law value case. According to the same 509, 64 percent of St. Thomas Law students receive grant aid, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $12,500, $25,320, and $34,750. Against the $47,578 sticker, a student receiving the median grant of $25,320 nets about $22,258 in tuition and fees before living costs, and a student with a 75th-percentile award of $34,750 nets about $12,828. That median award cuts tuition by more than half, which is a genuinely strong discount and the reason St. Thomas University College of Law can be an affordable option despite a mid-$40,000s sticker. The school reports 0 full-tuition awards and 2 above-full-tuition awards, so full rides are rare, but the median discount is deep.

Now the warning that matters most on cost, because St. Thomas University College of Law's scholarships are conditional. Per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, a first-year award can be reduced or eliminated if your grades fall below the threshold the school sets, so the number in your admission letter is not guaranteed for all three years. This is not a footnote at St. Thomas Law: the school also reports 10.0 percent first-year academic attrition in the same disclosure, meaning roughly one in ten first-year students did not continue for academic reasons. A conditional scholarship sits on top of a first-year curve that is already washing out a real share of the class, so the risk that a lower-than-expected first year both costs you standing and cuts your award is concrete, not hypothetical.

Before you count that money at St. Thomas University College of Law, ask the admissions office in writing what class-rank or grade-point threshold applies to keep the full award, how many students fall below it in a typical first year, and what share of students keep their full scholarship into the second and third years. Ask separately what share of the entering class the 10.0 percent attrition represents and what academic support the school provides. A conditional award you lose after a curved first year can erase the discount that drew you to St. Thomas Law in the first place, so going in with those answers is how you use the strong headline discount responsibly at St. Thomas University College of Law.

What are your real chances off the St. Thomas Law School waitlist?

St. Thomas University College of Law does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 424 matriculants against 1,067 offers is a 39.7 percent yield in St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That is a moderately high yield, so St. Thomas Law fills most of its class from first-round offers and the waitlist tends to move less.

Here is the reasoning in full. St. Thomas University College of Law enrolled 424 matriculants from 1,067 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 39.7 percent. No ABA disclosure, St. Thomas Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted off the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield is the honest proxy for waitlist movement. When roughly two in five admitted students enroll, a school fills a larger share of its class from first-round offers, which usually means the waitlist is a smaller factor at St. Thomas University College of Law than at schools that yield a quarter of their offers.

A 39.7 percent yield is on the higher side within this set, which points to a waitlist that matters less at St. Thomas Law. Because St. Thomas University College of Law already admits three in five applicants, most candidates who would be competitive are admitted outright rather than waitlisted, so the list is a secondary tool. For a waitlisted applicant, that means modest hope: movement happens in some cycles, but the accessible admit gate means the school does not lean on its waitlist to build the class.

If you land on the St. Thomas University College of Law waitlist, the play is the standard one: send a concise letter of continued interest naming St. Thomas Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or improved grades, and keep another acceptance in hand as your real plan. One honest note on the class figures: St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure lists 424 matriculants from the applicant pool but a first-year class of 431. The small gap reflects students who arrive through paths other than this single cycle's pool, such as admitted students who deferred from a prior year. The 39.7 percent implied yield is computed from the 424 pool matriculants against the 1,067 offers, which is the correct comparison for reasoning about this cycle's waitlist odds at St. Thomas University College of Law.

Where do St. Thomas Law School graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, St. Thomas University College of Law placed 75.5 percent of graduates in Florida and 77.1 percent across its top three markets. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 12.0 percent of graduates, and federal clerkships took 0.0 percent. St. Thomas Law is a South Florida school, and the data is clear about it.

Lead with market concentration, because at St. Thomas University College of Law it defines the outcome profile. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, St. Thomas Law placed 188 graduates in Florida, 2 in California, and 2 in New Jersey. That is a 75.5 percent top-market share and a 77.1 percent top-three share, which tells you the class is built almost entirely for the Florida market, and Miami in particular. If your plan is to practice in South Florida, St. Thomas Law's alumni network and employer relationships are concentrated exactly where you want them. If your plan is elsewhere, this concentration is the most important geographic fact on the page, because the pipeline out of Florida is thin.

On overall placement, St. Thomas University College of Law posts a respectable figure for an access-mission school. The same ABA Employment Summary shows 203 of 249 graduates employed at ten months, or 81.5 percent, which holds up reasonably within this set and is a relative strength for St. Thomas Law given its accessible admit gate. On firm size, St. Thomas University College of Law sent 12.0 percent of graduates to large firms of 101 or more lawyers, a modest minority that reflects a class oriented toward smaller firms, government, and public-interest practice rather than large-firm work.

Federal clerkships are absent from the profile. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 0.0 percent of St. Thomas University College of Law graduates entering federal clerkships, so if a clerkship is central to your plan, this is a school where that path is not part of the recent record. Read the whole profile together and St. Thomas Law is best understood as a South Florida practice school with a solid employment rate for its band, a modest large-firm presence, and no recent clerkship placements at St. Thomas University College of Law.

When are St. Thomas Law School's application deadlines?

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

St. Thomas University College of Law, like most ABA law schools, runs a rolling admissions cycle that typically opens in the early fall and reviews files as they are completed, which rewards applying early in the window when more seats and more scholarship money remain. That early edge matters at St. Thomas Law even though admission itself is accessible, because the scholarship discount is the real prize here: aid budgets are richest at the start of the cycle, so a complete file submitted in the first weeks competes for a fuller pool of the grants that cut tuition by more than half. The general rhythm is standard across the market, but the exact opening date, the priority and final deadlines, and whether St. Thomas University College of Law offers an Early Decision track with specific terms are details this page did not verify from a primary source.

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

Frequently asked questions about getting into St. Thomas Law School

Is a 152 LSAT good enough for St. Thomas Law?

Yes. A 152 is exactly the LSAT median at St. Thomas University College of Law, per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 150 to 156. A 152 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, and because St. Thomas Law admits 60.25 percent of applicants, a low-150s LSAT with a GPA at or near the 3.42 median makes you a strong candidate at St. Thomas University College of Law.

What GPA do you need to get into St. Thomas Law?

St. Thomas University College of Law reports a GPA median of 3.42, with a 25th-to-75th range of 3.12 to 3.65, in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. Aim for 3.42 or higher. Because St. Thomas Law is splitter friendly, a strong LSAT can help carry a GPA in the low 3.1s, but a transcript at or above the median keeps your file inside the competitive core at St. Thomas University College of Law.

What is St. Thomas Law's acceptance rate?

St. Thomas University College of Law admitted 60.25 percent of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 1,067 offers against 1,771 applications, according to St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Among the 42 schools within two points of its 152 LSAT median, that ranks St. Thomas University College of Law 32nd most selective, so it is more accessible than most schools at its median.

How many people apply to St. Thomas Law each year?

St. Thomas University College of Law received 1,771 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 1,067 offers, and enrolled 424 matriculants for a first-year class of 431, per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That large offer count against a smaller pool of applicants is what produces the accessible 60.25 percent acceptance rate at St. Thomas University College of Law.

How much does St. Thomas Law cost per year?

St. Thomas University College of Law lists full-time tuition and fees of $47,578 plus living expenses of $42,548 in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. St. Thomas Law does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total in the 509, so tuition and living are best read separately. Because 64 percent of students receive grants with a $25,320 median, most students at St. Thomas University College of Law pay well below the tuition sticker.

Does St. Thomas Law give scholarships?

Yes, and the discount is deep. St. Thomas University College of Law reports that 64 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards of $12,500, $25,320, and $34,750 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. The median award cuts the $47,578 tuition by more than half, so aid is one of the strongest reasons to consider St. Thomas University College of Law.

Are St. Thomas Law scholarships conditional?

Yes, and this matters. St. Thomas University College of Law uses conditional scholarships, per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, so a first-year award can be reduced or eliminated if your grades fall below the school's threshold. Because St. Thomas Law also reports 10.0 percent first-year attrition, ask the school in writing what threshold applies and what share of students keep the full award at St. Thomas University College of Law.

What is St. Thomas Law's first-year attrition rate?

St. Thomas University College of Law reports first-year academic attrition of 10.0 percent in its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, meaning roughly one in ten first-year students did not continue for academic reasons. Paired with conditional scholarships, that first-year curve is a real risk to weigh. Before enrolling, ask St. Thomas Law what academic support it provides and how the attrition and scholarship threshold interact at St. Thomas University College of Law.

What is St. Thomas Law's bar passage rate?

St. Thomas University College of Law posted an 80.89 percent first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Florida as its largest jurisdiction, according to St. Thomas Law's ABA bar-passage report. That is a relative strength for an access-mission school and holds up well in this set. Its ultimate pass rate for the 2022 cohort was 87.68 percent at St. Thomas University College of Law.

Where do most St. Thomas Law graduates work?

Florida, overwhelmingly. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows St. Thomas University College of Law placed 188 graduates in Florida, 2 in California, and 2 in New Jersey, a 75.5 percent top-market share and 77.1 percent across the top three. St. Thomas Law is a South Florida school, so weigh that concentration if you plan to practice outside the state at St. Thomas University College of Law.

Do St. Thomas Law graduates get large-firm jobs?

A modest share do. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, St. Thomas University College of Law sent 12.0 percent of graduates to large firms of 101 or more lawyers. Most of the St. Thomas Law class lands in smaller firms, government, and public-interest roles, so if large-firm work is your primary goal, weigh that share honestly against your plans at St. Thomas University College of Law.

Can a splitter get into St. Thomas Law?

A splitter has a real path. Lovare reads St. Thomas University College of Law as splitter friendly, with a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.3 and an LSAT spread of two points in the 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That means St. Thomas Law forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, so a 156 LSAT with a sub-3.12 GPA is more viable at St. Thomas University College of Law than a high GPA paired with an LSAT well under 150.

Is St. Thomas Law worth the cost?

For a South Florida student who reads the fine print, it can be. St. Thomas University College of Law pairs a deep median scholarship discount and an 80.89 percent first-time bar rate with an 81.5 percent employment rate, per St. Thomas Law's 2025 ABA 509 and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. Weigh those strengths against the conditional scholarships and 10.0 percent attrition when you judge the value of St. Thomas University College of Law.

Sources

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

St. Thomas University College of Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=177&year=2025

St. Thomas University College of Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=177&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=177&year=2024

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