How to Get Into University of Louisville Law School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

The honest answer to how to get into University of Louisville Law School is to land near the medians in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 157 LSAT and a 3.67 GPA, with a middle 50 percent of 154 to 161 and 3.32 to 3.9. Clear both numbers and you are competitive.

By Ali Unar, Georgetown Law, Founder of Lovare Institut. Ali Unar is a Georgetown Law student and the founder of Lovare Institut, an admissions and LSAT-prep practice built on primary-source law school data. Verified August 2026. Admissions figures on this page come from University of Louisville Law School'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 and program details from Louisville Brandeis Law's own published disclosures.

The most distinctive fact about University of Louisville Law School is how accessible it is relative to its academic profile. Among the 56 ABA law schools whose median LSAT sits within two points of Louisville Brandeis Law's 157, ranked by acceptance rate, University of Louisville Law School is the least selective of the entire group, per Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Pair that with an unusually small gap between resident and nonresident tuition, $28,396 against $33,396 in the same disclosure, and the thesis of this page follows: University of Louisville Law School is one of the more attainable and affordable routes into a Kentucky legal career, and its 2025 numbers make that case in plain figures. The honest counterweight, covered below, is a first-time bar pass rate of 75.61 percent that trails the school's stronger ultimate rate, and a hiring network concentrated heavily in the Commonwealth.

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

University of Louisville Law School posts a 157 LSAT median, a 3.67 GPA median, and a 63.39 percent acceptance rate in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Resident tuition and fees are $28,396 and nonresident $33,396, and 75 percent of students receive grants. The table below collects the headline numbers for the fall 2025 entering class.

MetricUniversity of Louisville Law School (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)154 / 157 / 161GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.32 / 3.67 / 3.9Acceptance rate63.39%Applications579Offers of admission367Matriculants from the applicant pool145First-year class145Full-time tuition and feesResident $28,396 / nonresident $33,396Living expenses$26,966Share receiving grants75%Median grant$12,000 (25th $5,000, 75th $20,000)Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage75.61% (exam year 2024, largest jurisdiction Kentucky)Employed at ten months89.7% (113 of 126)

Source: University of Louisville Law School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), with employment from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 and first-time bar passage from Louisville Brandeis 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.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into University of Louisville Law School?

University of Louisville Law School reports an LSAT spread of 154 to 161 and a GPA spread of 3.32 to 3.9 in its 2025 ABA 509. A 157 and a 3.67 sit at both medians. Below the 154 LSAT or the 3.32 GPA, Louisville Brandeis Law wants a clear compensating strength on the other number.

University of Louisville Law School reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 154, 157, and 161, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.32, 3.67, and 3.9 for the fall 2025 entering class, per Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of enrolled students scored above 157 on the LSAT and above 3.67 in GPA, and half below. Treat each median as the center of the admitted class rather than a hard cutoff, because University of Louisville Law School admits students on both sides of both numbers every cycle.

The realistic read is straightforward. A 157 LSAT paired with a 3.67 GPA sits a University of Louisville Law School applicant squarely at both medians, a genuinely competitive position rather than a coin flip. Below the 154 LSAT or below the 3.32 GPA, which is beneath the school's 25th percentile on either axis, Louisville Brandeis Law will look for a clear compensating strength on the other number. A 154 with a 3.9 can work, and a 3.3 with a 161 can work, but a file that lands low on both numbers is the hard case at University of Louisville Law School.

The shape of the two bands tells you how University of Louisville Law School treats an imbalanced file. Lovare reads Louisville Brandeis Law as splitter friendly, because the GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.35 is proportionally wider than the three-point LSAT 25th-to-median spread. A splitter-friendly school forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is strong, while a reverse-splitter-friendly school forgives a lower LSAT when the GPA is strong. At University of Louisville Law School, the high-LSAT, lower-GPA applicant has the more reliable path, so if your transcript lags but you test well, Louisville Brandeis Law is a sensible target rather than a long shot.

One practical note for University of Louisville Law School applicants: because the LSAT band tops out at 161 in the 75th percentile, a score at or above 161 places you in the top quarter of the class and materially strengthens both your admission odds and your scholarship case, a link this page returns to below. Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509 shows a class built around solid mid-150s numbers, which is exactly why a score above the 157 median moves the needle here more than the same score would at a school with a higher band.

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

University of Louisville Law School is more accessible than its city-flagship reputation suggests. Among the 56 ABA schools whose median LSAT is within two points of Louisville Brandeis Law's 157, ranked by acceptance rate, University of Louisville Law School is the least selective of the 56 in the 2025 ABA 509, at the most open end of its band.

Reputation places University of Louisville Law School as the established law school of Kentucky's largest city, named for Justice Louis Brandeis, and its 157 LSAT median fits comfortably in the solid regional tier. Its admissions numbers, though, describe a school easier to enter than that reputation implies. To locate it precisely, Lovare built a peer band of the 56 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Louisville Brandeis Law's 157, that is a median of 155 to 159, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures.

By that ranking, University of Louisville Law School comes in as the least selective of all 56 schools in its band. In plain terms, every other school sitting at essentially the same LSAT level admits a smaller share of its applicants than Louisville Brandeis Law's 63.39 percent, which places University of Louisville Law School at the most accessible end of its own LSAT neighborhood. That is not a knock: it means a well-prepared applicant at or near the medians has a real, non-lottery chance here, which is simply not true higher up the band.

The raw volume supports that read. University of Louisville Law School drew 579 applications and made 367 offers for the fall 2025 class, per Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509, a ratio that leaves genuine room for applicants who present clean numbers and a coherent file. When nearly two in three applicants receive an offer, University of Louisville Law School is a school you prepare for with confidence rather than one you hope to win in a lottery.

The takeaway for an applicant is to calibrate expectations to the numbers, not the name. A 157 and 3.67 file that might be a coin flip at the most selective schools in this band is a strong application at University of Louisville Law School, and a file a touch above the medians moves from competitive to likely. Louisville Brandeis Law's reputation earns you a respected regional degree, and its acceptance rate means you do not need an elite profile to earn a seat. Read University of Louisville Law School as respected and genuinely attainable rather than a reach.

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

University of Louisville Law School charges $28,396 in resident tuition and fees and $33,396 nonresident in its 2025 ABA 509, plus $26,966 in living expenses. Seventy-five percent of students receive grants, with a median award of $12,000, and the aid is not conditional on grades at Louisville Brandeis Law.

University of Louisville Law School reports full-time tuition and fees of $28,396 for residents and $33,396 for nonresidents in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, plus $26,966 in living expenses. The standout here is the narrow gap between the two tuition figures: at just $5,000, the nonresident premium at University of Louisville Law School is far smaller than at most public law schools, where out-of-state students often pay twenty or thirty thousand dollars more. The 509 prints tuition and living costs separately and does not publish a single combined cost-of-attendance total, so any all-in number quoted elsewhere is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure University of Louisville Law School reports, and this page will not invent one.

Aid at University of Louisville Law School is broad but not top-heavy. According to the same 2025 ABA 509, 75 percent of students receive grant money, with grant amounts at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $5,000, $12,000, and $20,000. Louisville Brandeis Law reports 0 full-tuition awards and 1 award above full tuition. The honest read is that University of Louisville Law School spreads modest-to-solid grants across three-quarters of the class rather than concentrating a handful of full rides, so most admitted students should expect a partial discount rather than a free seat.

The median award does the clearest math. Against the $33,396 nonresident sticker, a student receiving University of Louisville Law School's median grant of $12,000 nets about $21,396 in tuition and fees before living costs, using figures from Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509. For a resident, subtract the same $12,000 median grant from the $28,396 resident figure and the net falls to about $16,396 in tuition and fees before living costs. Those are median outcomes, so half of aided students at University of Louisville Law School do better and half do worse.

One reassurance sets University of Louisville Law School apart from several peers in this guide: its scholarships are not conditional. Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509 reports that it does not use conditional scholarships, so a first-year award is not tied to a class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be cut if your grades slip in the first year. The grant University of Louisville Law School quotes at admission is the grant you keep for all three years, which makes the aid easier to plan around than a conditional award that can vanish after a tough first semester.

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

University of Louisville Law School does not disclose waitlist admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 145 matriculants against 367 offers is a 39.5 percent yield at Louisville Brandeis Law, a moderate figure that leaves the door genuinely open for waitlist movement in lighter deposit years.

Here is the reasoning in full. University of Louisville Law School enrolled 145 matriculants from 367 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 39.5 percent. No ABA disclosure, Louisville Brandeis Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted off the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield, the share of admitted students who enroll, is the honest proxy for how much a waitlist moves. When roughly 40 percent of admitted students enroll, University of Louisville Law School must extend well over twice as many offers as it has seats, which typically means an active waitlist in cycles where deposits run light.

A 39.5 percent yield is moderate and points to real but limited waitlist hope at University of Louisville Law School. It is higher than the yields at schools that must rebuild a class from the list every year, which means Louisville Brandeis Law returns to its waitlist less often than those schools do. It is not so high that the class fills entirely from first-round offers. For a waitlisted applicant, that combination means some cycles will see movement and others little.

If you land on the University of Louisville Law School waitlist, the play is the standard one: send a concise letter of continued interest naming Louisville Brandeis Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or improved grades, and keep another acceptance in hand as your anchor. Do not build your plan around a University of Louisville Law School waitlist offer, but do not write it off either, because a 39.5 percent yield leaves the door genuinely ajar.

It is worth noting how clean the class figures are at University of Louisville Law School. Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509 lists 145 matriculants from the applicant pool and a first-year class of exactly 145, so there is no gap between pool matriculants and the enrolled class to reconcile. The 39.5 percent implied yield is computed directly from those 145 matriculants against the 367 offers, which is the correct comparison for reasoning about this cycle's waitlist odds at University of Louisville Law School.

Where do University of Louisville Law School graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, University of Louisville Law School kept 64.3 percent of graduates in Kentucky and 74.6 percent across its top three markets. Large firms of 101-plus lawyers hired 7.1 percent, and 1.6 percent won federal clerkships. Louisville Brandeis Law is a concentrated Kentucky hiring engine.

University of Louisville Law School is first and foremost a Kentucky hiring engine, and the employment data makes that literal. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Louisville Brandeis Law placed 81 of its 126 graduates in Kentucky, 7 in Illinois, and 6 in Indiana. That is a 64.3 percent top-market share and a 74.6 percent top-three share: nearly two in three graduates begin their careers in Kentucky, and three in four land in just three states. If you want to practice in Louisville or elsewhere in the Commonwealth, University of Louisville Law School sits at the center of that market, and if your target is a distant coastal city, the concentration is a signal that Louisville Brandeis Law's network runs deep at home and thinner far away.

Lead with concentration rather than the raw employment rate, because the rate barely separates strong regional schools. University of Louisville Law School reported 113 of 126 graduates employed at ten months, or 89.7 percent, in the same ABA Employment Summary, a solid figure that nonetheless trails the very top of the regional market. What distinguishes an outcome is where those jobs are, and at Louisville Brandeis Law they are overwhelmingly in Kentucky.

On firm size, University of Louisville Law School places a modest minority in large firms. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 7.1 percent of Louisville Brandeis Law graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers. That is a realistic share for a regional public school rather than a BigLaw-feeder rate, and it tells you that most University of Louisville Law School graduates enter smaller and midsize firms, government, public interest, and business roles rather than the largest national firms.

Federal clerkships round out the picture at University of Louisville Law School. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 1.6 percent of Louisville Brandeis Law graduates entering federal clerkships, a small cohort that reflects the school's regional, practice-oriented placement rather than a national clerkship pipeline. Taken together, the outcomes describe University of Louisville Law School as a school that reliably places most of its graduates and concentrates them in Kentucky, with a smaller share reaching large firms and federal clerkships than a national feeder would post.

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

University of Louisville Law School's specific application deadlines and any Early Decision terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle, so confirm both directly on Louisville Brandeis Law's admissions site. The figures here are dated and verified August 2026, but cycle dates shift, and only the school's own page is authoritative on timing.

This page does not state a specific University of Louisville Law School application deadline, because its sources are the school's ABA disclosures and published data pages rather than a live application calendar, and stating a date this page cannot verify would violate its own accuracy rule. What is verifiable is that Louisville Brandeis Law, like nearly all ABA law schools, reviews on a rolling basis in practice, which rewards applying early in the cycle while the class and the scholarship budget are still open.

On Early Decision, University of Louisville Law School's ED terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle. If Louisville Brandeis Law offers a binding Early Decision option, its deadline, its financial terms, and whether it is truly binding should be confirmed on the school's own admissions page rather than assumed from this one. Early Decision is a binding commitment when a school offers it, so it is exactly the kind of term you verify at the source before you rely on it.

The practical guidance for University of Louisville Law School applicants is simple and does not depend on a specific date. Apply as early in the cycle as your best possible LSAT and complete file allow, because rolling review means later applicants compete for fewer remaining seats and a smaller remaining scholarship pool. Treat this page as a planning aid verified in August 2026, and treat Louisville Brandeis Law's admissions site as the authority on the current cycle's deadlines and Early Decision terms.

Frequently asked questions about getting into University of Louisville Law School

Is a 157 LSAT good enough for Louisville Brandeis Law?

A 157 is exactly the LSAT median at University of Louisville Law School, per Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 154 to 161. A 157 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, competitive rather than a lock. Pair it with a GPA at or above the 3.67 median and you are a strong candidate at University of Louisville Law School.

What GPA do you need for Louisville Brandeis Law?

University of Louisville Law School reports a GPA median of 3.67, with a 25th to 75th range of 3.32 to 3.9, in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509. Aim for 3.67 or higher. Because University of Louisville Law School is splitter friendly, a strong LSAT can help carry a GPA below 3.32, but a transcript at or above 3.67 keeps your file clean at Louisville Brandeis Law.

What is Louisville Brandeis Law's acceptance rate?

University of Louisville Law School admitted 63.39 percent of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 367 offers against 579 applications, according to Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That is an open rate, and it places University of Louisville Law School at the most accessible end of its LSAT band rather than among its more selective peers.

How many people apply to Louisville Brandeis Law?

University of Louisville Law School received 579 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 367 offers, and enrolled 145 matriculants for a first-year class of 145, per Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509. That pool against 367 offers is what produces University of Louisville Law School's 63.39 percent acceptance rate, one of the most open in its LSAT band.

How much does Louisville Brandeis Law cost?

University of Louisville Law School lists full-time tuition and fees of $28,396 for residents and $33,396 for nonresidents, plus $26,966 in living expenses, in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509. The nonresident premium is only about $5,000, unusually small for a public school. University of Louisville Law School does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total, so tuition and living are best read separately.

Does Louisville Brandeis Law give scholarships?

Yes, to most of the class. University of Louisville Law School reports that 75 percent of students receive grant money, with awards of $5,000, $12,000, and $20,000 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 0 full-tuition awards and 1 above full tuition, per Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509. University of Louisville Law School spreads solid partial grants widely rather than concentrating full rides.

Are Louisville Brandeis Law scholarships conditional on grades?

No. University of Louisville Law School reports in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509 that it does not use conditional scholarships, so a first-year award is not tied to a class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be cut if your grades slip. The grant University of Louisville Law School quotes at admission is the grant you keep for all three years.

What is Louisville Brandeis Law's bar passage rate?

University of Louisville Law School posted a 75.61 percent first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Kentucky as the largest jurisdiction, according to Louisville Brandeis Law's ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate for the 2022 cohort was 86.75 percent. The gap shows that a meaningful share of University of Louisville Law School graduates who do not pass on the first attempt pass on a later one.

What is Louisville Brandeis Law's first-year attrition rate?

University of Louisville Law School reports first-year academic attrition of 0.0 percent in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509, meaning no first-year students were dismissed for academic reasons in the reported year. That is a reassuring figure: it signals that University of Louisville Law School admits students it expects to carry through the first year rather than enrolling a class it then washes out.

Where do Louisville Brandeis Law graduates work?

Most stay in Kentucky. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows University of Louisville Law School placed 81 graduates in Kentucky, 7 in Illinois, and 6 in Indiana, a 64.3 percent top-market share and 74.6 percent across the top three. University of Louisville Law School is a concentrated hiring pipeline centered on Louisville and the wider Commonwealth.

Do Louisville Brandeis Law graduates get large-firm jobs?

A modest share do. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, 7.1 percent of University of Louisville Law School graduates took jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers. That is a realistic figure for a regional public school rather than a BigLaw-feeder rate, so most Louisville Brandeis Law graduates enter smaller and midsize firms, government, and public-interest roles rather than the largest national firms.

Can a splitter get into Louisville Brandeis Law?

A splitter has a real path. Lovare reads University of Louisville Law School as splitter friendly in Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509, with a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.35 that is proportionally wider than the three-point LSAT spread. That means University of Louisville Law School forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is strong, so a high-LSAT, lower-GPA file is more viable than the reverse.

How selective is Louisville Brandeis Law compared with schools at the same LSAT?

Among the 56 ABA schools whose median LSAT is within two points of University of Louisville Law School's 157, ranked by acceptance rate in the 2025 ABA 509, Louisville Brandeis Law is the least selective of all 56. In plain terms, every school at the same LSAT level admits a smaller share, so University of Louisville Law School sits at the most accessible end of its band.

Is Louisville Brandeis Law worth it?

For a Kentucky-centered career, the value case is strong. University of Louisville Law School pairs a $28,396 resident sticker and a small nonresident premium with 75 percent grant reach and an 89.7 percent employment rate, per Louisville Brandeis Law's 2025 ABA 509 and the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024. The honest caveat is a 75.61 percent first-time bar rate to weigh at University of Louisville Law School.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at a Louisville Brandeis Law scholarship?

Scores above the medians. An LSAT above the 157 median toward the 161 upper quartile plus a GPA above 3.67 toward the 3.9 upper quartile position you for University of Louisville Law School's larger grants, up to the $20,000 upper-quartile award and the single above-full-tuition grant Louisville Brandeis Law reports in its 2025 ABA 509. Clearing both medians is the surest way to move up the award scale at University of Louisville Law School.

Sources

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

University of Louisville Law School 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=61&year=2025

University of Louisville Law School ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=61&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=61&year=2024

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