How to Get Into University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

How to get into University of Arkansas at Little Rock Law School is an encouraging question for applicants in the low-150s. According to UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the fall 2025 entering class posted a 153 LSAT median, inside a 150 to 158 range, and a 3.4 GPA median, inside a 3.0 to 3.72 range. A 150 to 153 LSAT is genuinely competitive here, exactly where those numbers belong.

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 UA Little Rock Bowen 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 UA Little Rock Bowen Law's own pages.

The single most distinctive fact about UA Little Rock Bowen Law is that it is a low-cost, genuinely accessible public law school where an applicant in the low-150s LSAT range, and even one with a 3.0 GPA, is competitive rather than a long shot. According to UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, resident tuition and fees run just $17,474, the school admits 54.89% of applicants, and its GPA 25th percentile is a 3.0. That access-and-value mission is the thesis this page returns to: UA Little Rock Bowen Law opens the profession to Arkansas students who might be shut out elsewhere, and its admissions numbers, its part-time option, and its Arkansas-centered outcomes all read most clearly through that lens, alongside three honest cautions about bar passage, first-year attrition, and conditional scholarships that every applicant should weigh.

University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Bowen) law admissions at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

UA Little Rock Bowen Law is an accessible, low-cost public school with a part-time option. According to UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the fall 2025 class posted a 153 LSAT median, a 3.4 GPA median, and a 54.89% acceptance rate. Resident tuition and fees run $17,474, with living expenses listed separately at $25,459. The table below collects the core numbers.

MetricUA Little Rock Bowen Law (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)150 / 153 / 158GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.0 / 3.4 / 3.72Acceptance rate54.89%Applications603Offers of admission331Matriculants from the pool152First-year class154 (117 full-time and 37 part-time)Full-time tuition and feesResident $17,474Living expenses$25,459Share receiving grants60% of studentsMedian grant$7,461Conditional scholarshipsYes (an award can be cut if grades fall below the school's threshold)First-time bar passage73.02%Employed at ten months82.6% (114 of 138)

Source: UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), UA Little Rock Bowen Law's ABA bar-passage report, and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. Tuition and living expenses are printed separately in the 509, which does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so this page does not quote one.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into UA Little Rock Bowen Law?

You realistically need a 153 LSAT and a 3.4 GPA to sit at the center of UA Little Rock Bowen Law's class. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure puts the LSAT middle at 150 to 158 and the GPA middle at 3.0 to 3.72. Below either 25th percentile, the other number has to carry a clear compensating strength.

Take the two numbers one at a time. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Bowen) law LSAT median is 153, with a 25th percentile of 150 and a 75th percentile of 158, per UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The band is unusually wide at the top: three points separate the median from the 150 bottom quarter, but a full five points separate it from the 158 top quarter. In plain terms a 158 reaches well into the top of the admitted class, a 153 sits at the middle, and a 150 marks the bottom quarter yet stays inside the admitted range. This is the crucial point for applicants who have been told a 150 closes doors: at UA Little Rock Bowen Law a 150 is not a disqualifier, it is the 25th percentile of an admitted class, and a 153 sits right at the median.

The GPA band is the widest in this guide. The University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Bowen) law GPA median is 3.4, with a 25th percentile of 3.0 and a 75th percentile of 3.72, according to the same disclosure. The distance from the 25th percentile to the median is a full 0.4 of a point, so UA Little Rock Bowen Law's admitted students spread from a 3.0 through the mid-3.7s. A 3.0 GPA keeps an applicant inside the admitted band, which is genuinely unusual and reflects the school's access mission: a solid LSAT can carry a modest undergraduate record here in a way it cannot at more numbers-driven schools.

So what does a realistic UA Little Rock Bowen Law profile look like? A 153 LSAT paired with a 3.4 GPA lands an applicant squarely at both medians, per UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, and against a 54.89% acceptance rate that is a comfortable position. Fall below the 150 LSAT or the 3.0 GPA and you need a clear compensating strength on the other number. On the splitter question, UA Little Rock Bowen Law is splitter friendly, and strongly so: its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.4 and an LSAT spread of 3 points, the widest GPA spread here. A splitter-friendly school forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, so an applicant with a 153-or-better LSAT and a GPA in the low 3.0s fits the profile UA Little Rock Bowen Law admits.

Is UA Little Rock Bowen Law harder to get into than its reputation?

No. UA Little Rock Bowen Law is genuinely accessible, sitting in the more open half of its academic band. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports a 54.89% acceptance rate, which ranks it 35th most selective of the 51 schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of its 153. Its admit rate sits well toward the accessible end of its band, which is the point of an access-mission school.

To judge the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (Bowen) law acceptance rate fairly, compare it only against schools with a similar academic profile. Among the 51 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 153, that is a median of 151 to 155, ranked by acceptance rate, UA Little Rock Bowen Law is the 35th most selective, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. That places UA Little Rock Bowen Law firmly in the more accessible half of its band: 34 of the schools sharing its LSAT profile admit a smaller share of applicants than UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 54.89%.

The practical reading is exactly what an access mission should produce. UA Little Rock Bowen Law admits more than half of its applicants, and its 603 applications against 331 offers, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, describe a school that gives a solid file a strong chance rather than a slim one. Nowhere in this analysis does that mean a lower-scoring applicant has no options: UA Little Rock Bowen Law is precisely the kind of school where a low-150s LSAT and a low-3.0s GPA are competitive, and an applicant with those numbers should treat it as a realistic target. An applicant whose numbers sit above the 153 and 3.4 medians can approach UA Little Rock Bowen Law as a strong scholarship candidate.

How much does UA Little Rock Bowen Law cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists resident tuition and fees at just $17,474 and living expenses at $25,459, with no single cost-of-attendance total printed. The low resident sticker is central to the school's value: 60% of UA Little Rock Bowen Law students receive a grant, with a median award of $7,461, though the scholarships are conditional on grades.

Start with the sticker. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists resident tuition and fees at $17,474, one of the lowest figures in this guide, and separately lists living expenses at $25,459. That 509 does not print a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so any all-in annual number quoted elsewhere for UA Little Rock Bowen Law is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure the school reports, and this page will not invent one. The headline is that the tuition itself is genuinely affordable for a resident, which is the heart of this school's value case.

The aid picture lowers the cost further for most students. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 60% of students receive a grant, with grant amounts at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $3,443, $7,461, and $13,770. The same disclosure reports 24 full-tuition awards and 13 awards above full tuition, so a meaningful number of students attend on full or better-than-full tuition support. For a typical recipient, a student holding UA Little Rock Bowen Law's median grant of $7,461 nets about $10,013 in resident tuition and fees before living costs, per the same disclosure, which brings an already low sticker down toward five figures for tuition.

Here the honest cautions begin, and they matter. First, according to UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, its scholarships are conditional, which means a first-year award can be reduced or cut if your grades fall below the school's stated threshold. Before you count that money as guaranteed for all three years, ask the UA Little Rock Bowen Law admissions office in writing what grade or class-rank threshold applies and what share of students keep the full award into the second and third years. This caution has more weight here than at some peers, because UA Little Rock Bowen Law also reports first-year academic attrition of 4.0% in the same disclosure, an elevated figure for this guide, so the first-year curve is doing real work and a conditional award is genuinely at risk for a student who lands in the lower part of the class.

The strategic read for UA Little Rock Bowen Law is that its low resident price makes it a strong value, but the conditional-scholarship and attrition figures mean you should stress-test the money before you enroll. Because UA Little Rock Bowen Law admits more than half of applicants and awards grants to 60% of enrolled students, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an applicant who pushes the LSAT above the 153 median and the GPA above the 3.4 median improves both the size of the award and the odds of staying above the renewal threshold once classes begin.

What are your real chances off the UA Little Rock Bowen Law waitlist?

Moderate. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure records 331 offers and 152 matriculants, an implied yield of 45.9%. No ABA disclosure publishes waitlist admits, so implied yield is the honest proxy: a 45.9% yield means UA Little Rock Bowen Law fills a good share of its class from first-round offers, so the waitlist moves less than at a lower-yield school but is not idle.

Here is the reasoning in full. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports 331 offers of admission and 152 matriculants drawn from the applicant pool, which is an implied yield of 45.9%. No ABA disclosure, UA Little Rock Bowen 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 45.9% of its offers into enrollments, it sends a little over two offers for every seat it fills, a moderately efficient pattern that leaves some room for a waitlist to move.

For a waitlisted applicant, the read is realistic. A 45.9% implied yield at UA Little Rock Bowen Law reflects a largely local applicant pool with strong ties to Arkansas, many of whom enroll when admitted. The honest limit is that UA Little Rock Bowen Law, like every school, does not publish year-to-year waitlist admit counts, so movement varies by cycle. If you are on the UA Little Rock Bowen Law waitlist, a concise letter of continued interest that names UA Little Rock Bowen Law as your first choice and reaffirms your ties to central Arkansas is worth sending, and because the school also offers a part-time track, flexibility on enrollment format can help in a tight year.

Where do UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates actually work?

Almost entirely in Arkansas, in a deeply local pattern. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, UA Little Rock Bowen Law's top market, Arkansas, took 62.3% of graduates, and the top three markets together took 68.8%. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers hired 2.2% of the class, and federal clerkships took 2.2%.

The defining fact about UA Little Rock Bowen Law's outcomes is their concentration in Arkansas. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, UA Little Rock Bowen Law placed 86 graduates in Arkansas, 5 in Missouri, and 4 in Texas, its three largest markets. Arkansas alone took 62.3% of the class, and the top three markets combined reached 68.8%, per the same summary. This is a school that serves the central Arkansas legal market above all, so an applicant who wants to practice in Little Rock and the surrounding region is buying into a deep local network, while an applicant targeting a distant or national market should weigh that concentration with clear eyes.

By employer type, the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows just 2.2% of UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers, a low large-firm share, with federal clerkships also at 2.2%. The honest reading is that UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates land primarily in small and mid-size Arkansas firms, government, public-interest work, and business, rather than in national large-firm or clerkship tracks. An applicant whose goal is large-firm practice should treat that 2.2% figure as a clear signal about where this degree typically leads.

The overall placement rate is the lowest in this guide and deserves an honest look. The same ABA Employment Summary shows 114 of 138 UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates employed at ten months, an 82.6% rate, so 24 graduates were not yet placed at the ten-month mark. On the bar exam, UA Little Rock Bowen Law's ABA bar-passage report shows a first-time pass rate of 73.02% for the 2024 exam year in Arkansas, a comparatively low first-time rate that an applicant should weigh seriously, rising to an 87.14% ultimate rate for the 2022 cohort, so many who do not pass on the first attempt pass later.

When are UA Little Rock Bowen Law's application deadlines?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law runs both full-time and part-time J.D. admissions, 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 UA Little Rock Bowen 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, UA Little Rock Bowen 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 UA Little Rock Bowen Law, confirm whether UA Little Rock Bowen 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. Application cycle dates shift from year to year, and a date that holds for one cycle can move in the next, so treat UA Little Rock Bowen Law's official site as the registrar of record. What this page can say with confidence, verified in August 2026, is that because UA Little Rock Bowen Law offers a part-time track alongside its full-time program, an applicant should confirm the deadline for the specific format they intend to enter.

Frequently asked questions about getting into UA Little Rock Bowen Law

Is a 153 LSAT good enough for UA Little Rock Bowen Law?

A 153 is exactly UA Little Rock Bowen Law's LSAT median, per UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, so it is good enough to be competitive, and against a 54.89% acceptance rate it is a comfortable position. Half of the fall 2025 class scored at or above 153 and half below, inside a 150 to 158 range. Paired with a GPA near the 3.4 median, a 153 places an applicant at the center of UA Little Rock Bowen Law's class.

What GPA do you need for UA Little Rock Bowen Law?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports a GPA median of 3.4, with a 25th percentile of 3.0 and a 75th percentile of 3.72. Realistically a 3.0 keeps you inside UA Little Rock Bowen Law's admitted band, which is unusually accessible, and because the school is strongly splitter friendly, a solid LSAT at or above 153 can carry a GPA in the low 3.0s in its read of the file.

What is UA Little Rock Bowen Law's acceptance rate?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law's acceptance rate is 54.89%, computed as 331 offers against 603 applications in UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That ranks UA Little Rock Bowen Law 35th most selective among the 51 schools within two LSAT points of its 153 median, in the more accessible half of its band. More than half of all applicants receive an offer from UA Little Rock Bowen Law in a given cycle.

How many people apply to UA Little Rock Bowen Law?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law received 603 applications for its fall 2025 entering class, according to UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. From that pool, UA Little Rock Bowen Law extended 331 offers of admission and enrolled 152 matriculants, building a first-year class of 154 made up of 117 full-time and 37 part-time students. The part-time option is part of what makes UA Little Rock Bowen Law accessible to working students in central Arkansas.

How much does UA Little Rock Bowen Law cost?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists resident tuition and fees at just $17,474 and living expenses at $25,459 for the year. UA Little Rock Bowen Law does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so this page will not quote one. A student holding UA Little Rock Bowen Law's median grant of $7,461 nets about $10,013 in resident tuition and fees before living costs, which makes it one of the most affordable options in this guide.

Does UA Little Rock Bowen Law give scholarships?

Yes, to most students. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that 60% of students receive a grant, with amounts of $3,443, $7,461, and $13,770 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 24 full-tuition awards and 13 awards above full tuition. Those scholarships are conditional at UA Little Rock Bowen Law, so a first-year award can be cut if your grades fall below the school's threshold, which is worth confirming in writing.

What is UA Little Rock Bowen Law's bar passage rate?

UA Little Rock Bowen Law's ABA bar-passage report shows a first-time pass rate of 73.02% for the 2024 exam year, with Arkansas as the largest jurisdiction, a comparatively low first-time rate that an applicant should weigh honestly. The ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, rises to 87.14%, per the same report, so many graduates who do not pass initially pass on a later attempt.

Where do UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates work?

Almost entirely in Arkansas. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Arkansas taking 86 UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates (62.3%), Missouri 5, and Texas 4, so the top three markets account for 68.8% of the class. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers hired just 2.2% of UA Little Rock Bowen Law graduates and federal clerkships took 2.2%, so the class leans heavily toward local practice.

Can a splitter get into UA Little Rock Bowen Law?

Yes, and this is one of the more splitter-friendly schools in the guide. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure shows a wide GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.4 and an LSAT spread of 3 points, so a lower GPA is forgiven when the LSAT is strong. An applicant with a 153-or-better LSAT and a GPA in the low 3.0s fits the profile UA Little Rock Bowen Law admits.

How selective is UA Little Rock Bowen Law compared with schools at the same LSAT?

More accessible than most of its band. Among the 51 schools with a median LSAT within two points of UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 153, ranked by acceptance rate, UA Little Rock Bowen Law is 35th most selective at 54.89%, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Thirty-four band peers admit a smaller share of applicants, so UA Little Rock Bowen Law is among the more open admits at its academic level.

Is UA Little Rock Bowen Law worth it?

For an affordable path into Arkansas practice, the value case is real, with caveats. Against a low $17,474 resident sticker in UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, 60% of students receive grants with a $7,461 median. Weigh that low cost against a 73.02% first-time bar rate, a 4.0% first-year attrition rate, and conditional scholarships before you commit to UA Little Rock Bowen Law.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at a UA Little Rock Bowen Law scholarship?

The highest you can post, because stronger numbers both win larger awards and help you hold a conditional one. Per UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, grants reach a $13,770 upper quartile, with 24 full-tuition awards. An LSAT at or above the 158 upper quartile paired with a GPA near the 3.72 top quarter gives the strongest shot at the largest awards at UA Little Rock Bowen Law.

Are UA Little Rock Bowen Law scholarships conditional on grades?

Yes. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports that its scholarships are conditional, so a first-year award can be reduced or cut if your grades fall below the school's stated threshold. Because UA Little Rock Bowen Law also reports a 4.0% first-year attrition rate, confirm the exact renewal terms in writing before you accept, since the first-year curve here is doing real work.

Does UA Little Rock Bowen Law have high first-year attrition?

Somewhat. UA Little Rock Bowen Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure reports first-year academic attrition of 4.0%, an elevated figure for this guide, meaning a small but real share of the entering class was dismissed for grades in the first year. For an applicant that is a signal to take the first-year curve seriously and to confirm how it interacts with a conditional scholarship at UA Little Rock Bowen Law.

Sources

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

UA Little Rock Bowen Law 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=6&year=2025

UA Little Rock Bowen Law ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=6&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=6&year=2024

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