How to Get Into Texas A&M Law School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

How to get into Texas A&M Law School comes down to two numbers. According to Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the fall 2025 class posted an LSAT median of 169 (161 to 170) and a GPA median of 4.0 (3.67 to 4.0). Sit at both, and you are competitive at a genuinely selective school.

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 Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), the employment figures from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and the remaining detail from Texas A&M University School of Law's own pages.

The single most distinctive fact about Texas A&M University School of Law is how selective it has become. Among the 25 ABA law schools whose median LSAT sits within two points of Texas A&M University School of Law's 169, ranked by acceptance rate, Texas A&M University School of Law is the 7th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Its 12.1% acceptance rate places it in the top third of that academic band, and paired with a Class of 2024 in which every graduate reported was employed at ten months, Texas A&M Law now behaves like an established national contender rather than the young program its reputation might still suggest. That gap between how hard Texas A&M Law actually is to enter and how it is casually filed is the thesis this page returns to.

Texas A&M University School of Law at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

Texas A&M University School of Law is a selective public school with an unusually strong employment record. According to Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the fall 2025 class posted a 169 LSAT median, a 4.0 GPA median, and a 12.1% acceptance rate. Resident tuition and fees run $32,634 and the nonresident rate is $48,522. The table collects the core numbers.

MetricTexas A&M University School of Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)161 / 169 / 170GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.67 / 4.0 / 4.0Acceptance rate12.1%Applications5,240Offers of admission634Matriculants from the pool128First-year class128Full-time tuition and feesResident $32,634 / nonresident $48,522Living expenses$29,696Share receiving grants95% of studentsMedian grant$26,048Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage95.98%Employed at ten months100.0% (178 of 178)

Source: Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), Texas A&M University School of Law's ABA bar-passage report, and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. The 509 does not print a single cost-of-attendance total, so this page reports resident tuition, nonresident tuition, and living expenses as separate figures rather than inventing one combined number.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into Texas A&M University School of Law?

You realistically need a 169 LSAT and a 4.0 GPA to sit at the center of the Texas A&M University School of Law class. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure puts the LSAT middle at 161 to 170 and the GPA middle at 3.67 to 4.0. Below the 161 LSAT or the 3.67 GPA, the other number has to carry a clear compensating strength.

Take the two numbers one at a time. The Texas A&M University School of Law LSAT median is 169, with a 25th percentile of 161 and a 75th percentile of 170, per Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The band is lopsided: only one point separates the 169 median from the 170 upper quartile, but a full eight points separate the median from the 161 bottom quartile. That shape tells you Texas A&M Law will read a file scoring in the low-to-mid 160s seriously, well below the median, provided the rest of the application is strong. A 170 already reaches the top quarter of the class, while an LSAT under 161 puts real pressure on the GPA and the rest of the file to compensate.

The GPA band tells a different story. The Texas A&M University School of Law GPA median is 4.0, and the 75th percentile is also 4.0, with a 25th percentile of 3.67, according to the same disclosure. Because the median and the upper quartile are both a perfect 4.0, at least half of the Texas A&M Law class enrolls with an unblemished undergraduate record, and a 3.67 sits at the bottom quarter of that range rather than in the middle. The practical meaning is that Texas A&M Law is a high-GPA environment: a 4.0 is common, not exceptional, and an applicant carrying a GPA below 3.67 is outside the reported middle band and needs an LSAT at or above the 169 median to stay competitive.

So what does a realistic Texas A&M Law profile look like? A 169 LSAT paired with a 4.0 GPA lands an applicant squarely at both medians, per Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, a competitive center-of-class position at a school admitting about one applicant in eight. On the splitter question, Texas A&M University School of Law is reverse-splitter friendly: its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.33 and an LSAT spread of eight points, so the LSAT band is the more forgiving of the two. A reverse-splitter-friendly school forgives a lower LSAT when the GPA is high, and Texas A&M Law leans that way, so an applicant with a 4.0 GPA and an LSAT in the low-to-mid 160s has a genuinely realistic path where a school built the other way might not offer one.

Is Texas A&M University School of Law harder to get into than its reputation?

Yes, and clearly so. Texas A&M University School of Law is more selective than its standing as a relatively young program would suggest. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports a 12.1% acceptance rate, which ranks it 7th most selective among the 25 leading schools within two LSAT points of its 169 median. Its admit rate runs at the top of its academic band.

To judge the Texas A&M Law acceptance rate fairly, compare it only against schools with a similar academic profile. Among the 25 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Texas A&M University School of Law's 169, that is a median of 167 to 171, ranked by acceptance rate, Texas A&M University School of Law is the 7th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. That places Texas A&M Law in the top third of its own academic band: 18 of the 25 schools sharing its LSAT profile admit a larger share of applicants than Texas A&M Law's 12.1%.

The practical reading matters for how you plan. Texas A&M University School of Law is often filed mentally as a newer regional program rather than a hard admit, but the numbers say otherwise: at 12.1%, Texas A&M Law admits roughly one applicant in eight, a rate more selective than the great majority of schools sharing its 169 LSAT median. One driver is class size against demand. Texas A&M Law drew 5,240 applications for its fall 2025 entering class and enrolled just 128 first-year students, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, and a small target class against heavy demand pushes the admit rate down. Put another way, Texas A&M Law extended 634 offers to seat 128 students, per the same disclosure, a disciplined offer pool that keeps the class full while holding the admit rate at a selective 12.1%. The takeaway for an applicant is to treat Texas A&M Law as a genuine reach-to-target rather than a safety, and to apply early with a file built to the medians.

How much does Texas A&M University School of Law cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

Texas A&M University School of Law lists two tuition figures, not one: resident tuition and fees of $32,634 and a nonresident rate of $48,522, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. What stands out is the aid: 95% of Texas A&M Law students receive a grant, the median award is $26,048, and the scholarships are not conditional on grades.

Start with the sticker. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports full-time tuition and fees of $32,634 for residents and $48,522 for nonresidents, with living expenses of $29,696 for the year. The 509 does not print a single cost-of-attendance total, so this page keeps those figures separate rather than adding them into a combined number the disclosure does not report. The residency gap is meaningful: a Texas resident starts from a sticker nearly $16,000 lower than an out-of-state applicant before any scholarship is applied.

The aid picture is broad and generous. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 95% of students receive a grant, an unusually high share, with grant amounts at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $17,500, $26,048, and $35,534. Texas A&M Law made 27 full-tuition awards and 70 awards above full tuition, according to the same disclosure, a striking concentration of large awards for an entering class of 128: taken together, that is 97 awards at or beyond full tuition set against a class of 128, which shows how heavily Texas A&M Law competes on scholarship money. On the packet's own arithmetic, against the $48,522 nonresident sticker a median-grant recipient nets about $22,474 in tuition and fees before living costs, and a resident, starting from the lower $32,634 figure, nets correspondingly less.

One consumer-protective point works in the applicant's favor at Texas A&M Law. According to Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, its scholarships are not conditional, so a first-year award cannot be cut for landing in the bottom half of the curve. The grant quoted in your offer is the grant you keep, which removes the renewal risk that some schools attach to first-year merit money. With 95% of students receiving aid, 27 full-tuition awards, and 70 awards beyond full tuition, the strategic move at Texas A&M Law is to push your LSAT and GPA as high as possible, because those numbers drive both the admission decision and the size of the discount.

What are your real chances off the Texas A&M University School of Law waitlist?

Meaningfully real, because the Texas A&M University School of Law yield is low. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure records 634 offers and 128 matriculants, an implied yield of 20.2%. No ABA disclosure publishes waitlist admits, so implied yield is the honest proxy: a low 20.2% yield means Texas A&M Law sends many offers per seat and can lean on its waitlist.

Here is the reasoning in full. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports 634 offers of admission and 128 matriculants drawn from the applicant pool, which is an implied yield of 20.2%. No ABA disclosure, Texas A&M University School of Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted off the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield is the honest stand-in for waitlist movement. The logic is that when a school converts only 20.2% of its offers into enrollments, it sends roughly five offers for every seat it fills, a comparatively inefficient class-building process that often relies on a waitlist to finish the class.

For a waitlisted applicant, that low yield is genuinely encouraging. A 20.2% implied yield is low in absolute terms, and it signals that Texas A&M University School of Law does not fill its 128-seat class from first-round commitments alone, so its waitlist can move in a way that a high-yield school's does not. The honest limit is that Texas A&M Law, like every school, does not publish year-to-year waitlist admit counts, so movement varies by cycle. If you are on the Texas A&M Law waitlist, a concise letter of continued interest reaffirming Texas A&M University School of Law as a first choice is worth sending, because a school building a small class from a broad offer pool values applicants who signal they will enroll.

Where do Texas A&M University School of Law graduates actually work?

Overwhelmingly in Texas, and increasingly at large firms. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Texas took 84.8% of Texas A&M University School of Law graduates and the top three markets took 89.3%. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers hired 25.3% of the class. Concentration in Texas and that large-firm share, not the raw employment rate, define the fit.

The most useful fact about Texas A&M Law's outcomes is how firmly they stay in state. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Texas A&M University School of Law placed 151 graduates in Texas, 5 in the District of Columbia, and 3 in North Carolina, its three largest markets. Texas alone absorbed 84.8% of the class, and the top three markets together took 89.3%, per the same summary. In practice a Texas A&M Law degree is a Texas degree, feeding the state's firms and courts above all, with only a thin scattering of graduates starting elsewhere.

By employer type, Texas A&M Law reads as a large-firm feeder for its market. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 25.3% of Texas A&M University School of Law graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers, roughly one graduate in four, a strong large-firm share for a public school outside the coastal markets. Federal clerkships took 1.7% of the class, per the same summary, a smaller clerkship pipeline that is typical of a school oriented toward firm practice rather than the bench. The honest read is that Texas A&M Law is a Texas-first, big-firm-friendly school, and an applicant who wants Texas BigLaw should weigh it heavily.

The overall placement record is exceptional. The same ABA Employment Summary shows all 178 Texas A&M University School of Law graduates employed at ten months, a 100.0% rate, and Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports first-year academic attrition of just 1.0%, so almost no one who starts at Texas A&M Law washes out academically. A full-employment class and near-zero attrition together mean that, once admitted and enrolled, a Texas A&M Law student faces very little risk of either academic dismissal or unemployment at graduation on these figures.

When are Texas A&M University School of Law's application deadlines?

Texas A&M University School of Law admits new students on its own cycle, but this page does not print a specific deadline date because the packet behind it did not pull one. The honest instruction is to confirm Texas A&M Law's current deadlines, and any early-decision terms, directly on the school's admissions site. This guidance is dated August 2026.

On early decision specifically, Texas A&M University School of Law's ED terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle, so rather than state a binding-or-not rule or a date that might be wrong, this page notes the absence plainly: if you are weighing an early application to Texas A&M Law, confirm whether Texas A&M University School of Law offers an Early Decision round, whether it is binding, and what its deadline is, on the school's own admissions page before you rely on it. Because the packet behind this page did not pull Texas A&M Law's specific deadline dates or entry-term structure, checking the school's official admissions page is especially important before you plan around a target date. Application cycle dates shift from year to year, so treat Texas A&M University School of Law's official site as the registrar of record. What this page can say with confidence, verified in August 2026, is that a strong Texas A&M Law application benefits from being complete early, because seats and scholarship dollars are more plentiful earlier in a cycle at a school that seats only 128 first-year students.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Texas A&M University School of Law

Is a 169 LSAT good enough for Texas A&M University School of Law?

A 169 is exactly Texas A&M University School of Law's LSAT median, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, so it is good enough to be competitive rather than safe. Half of the fall 2025 class scored at or above 169 and half below, inside a 161 to 170 middle range. Paired with a GPA near the 4.0 median, a 169 puts a Texas A&M Law applicant squarely at the center of the admitted class.

What GPA do you need for Texas A&M University School of Law?

Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports a GPA median of 4.0, a 75th percentile of 4.0, and a 25th percentile of 3.67. Realistically you want a GPA of at least 3.67 to stay inside the Texas A&M Law admitted band, and because the median is a perfect 4.0, an applicant below 3.67 needs an LSAT at or above the 169 median to offset it.

What is Texas A&M University School of Law's acceptance rate?

The Texas A&M University School of Law acceptance rate is 12.1%, computed from 634 offers against 5,240 applications in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That ranks Texas A&M Law 7th most selective among the 25 leading schools within two LSAT points of its 169 median, in the top third of its academic band. About one applicant in eight receives an offer from Texas A&M Law in a given cycle.

How many people apply to Texas A&M University School of Law?

Texas A&M University School of Law received 5,240 applications for its fall 2025 entering class, according to its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. From that pool, Texas A&M Law extended 634 offers of admission and enrolled 128 matriculants, building a first-year class of 128. The wide gap between 634 offers and 128 enrollments reflects a low 20.2% yield, which is why the Texas A&M Law waitlist can move in a given cycle.

How much does Texas A&M University School of Law cost?

Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports full-time tuition and fees of $32,634 for residents and $48,522 for nonresidents, with living expenses of $29,696. The 509 prints no single cost-of-attendance total, so Texas A&M Law's true annual cost depends on residency and on the grant you receive, and this page does not combine the figures into one number the disclosure does not state.

Does Texas A&M University School of Law give scholarships?

Yes, very broadly. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 95% of students receive a grant, with a median award of $26,048 and grants reaching a $35,534 upper quartile. Texas A&M Law made 27 full-tuition awards and 70 awards above full tuition, and its scholarships are not conditional, so a first-year grant at Texas A&M Law cannot be cut for grades.

What is Texas A&M University School of Law's bar passage rate?

Texas A&M University School of Law's ABA bar-passage report shows a first-time pass rate of 95.98% for the 2024 exam year, with Texas as the largest jurisdiction, a strong first-time result. The ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, is 95.38%, per the same report. In short, the large majority of Texas A&M Law graduates pass the bar on the first try.

Where do Texas A&M University School of Law graduates work?

Overwhelmingly in Texas. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Texas taking 151 Texas A&M University School of Law graduates (84.8%), the District of Columbia 5, and North Carolina 3, so the top three markets account for 89.3% of the class. Texas A&M Law sends a strong 25.3% of graduates to large firms of 101 or more lawyers and 1.7% into federal clerkships.

Can a splitter get into Texas A&M University School of Law?

Yes, and the reverse splitter has the edge. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.33 and an LSAT spread of eight points, so the LSAT band is the more forgiving one. That makes Texas A&M Law reverse-splitter friendly: an applicant with a 4.0 GPA and an LSAT in the low-to-mid 160s fits the profile Texas A&M Law admits.

How selective is Texas A&M University School of Law compared with schools at the same LSAT?

Near the top of its band. Among the 25 leading schools with a median LSAT within two points of Texas A&M University School of Law's 169, ranked by acceptance rate, Texas A&M Law is 7th most selective at 12.1%, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Eighteen band peers admit a larger share of applicants than Texas A&M Law does, so its admit rate runs below its academic profile.

Is Texas A&M University School of Law worth it?

The outcomes make a strong case. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows 95% of students receiving grants with a $26,048 median, and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows all 178 graduates employed at ten months, a 100.0% rate. Add a 95.98% first-time bar rate and 1.0% attrition, and Texas A&M Law delivers a well-supported path into the Texas legal market.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at a Texas A&M University School of Law scholarship?

The highest you can post, because Texas A&M University School of Law awards merit aid to nearly everyone. Per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, grants reach a $35,534 upper quartile, with 27 full-tuition and 70 above-full-tuition awards. An LSAT at the 170 upper quartile paired with a 4.0 GPA gives the strongest shot at a full-tuition award at Texas A&M Law, since those numbers drive scholarship size.

Does Texas A&M University School of Law have high first-year attrition?

No. Texas A&M University School of Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports first-year academic attrition of 1.0%, meaning almost no member of the entering class was dismissed for grades in the first year. For an applicant that is reassuring: once admitted to Texas A&M Law and enrolled, you are not facing a first-year curve engineered to force students out, and your scholarship is not conditional either.

How large is Texas A&M University School of Law's entering class?

Texas A&M University School of Law enrolled a first-year class of 128 for fall 2025, drawn from 128 matriculants, according to its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That class was built from 634 offers against 5,240 applications. The contained class size is one reason the Texas A&M Law acceptance rate lands at a selective 12.1% despite heavy demand, since few seats push the admit rate down.

Sources

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

Texas A&M University School of Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=182&year=2025

Texas A&M University School of Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=182&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=182&year=2024

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