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

The short answer to how to get into University of Oklahoma Law School is to hit the medians from Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 162 LSAT and a 3.73 GPA. The middle 50 percent scored 159 to 164 on the LSAT and 3.42 to 3.88 in GPA. Clear both 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. The admissions figures on this page come from University of Oklahoma Law School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report for the fall 2025 entering class, the employment figures from the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and the bar-passage figures from Oklahoma Law's ABA bar-passage report, together with the school's own published pages.

Oklahoma Law is a regional value school, and both halves of that phrase are literal. According to University of Oklahoma Law School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, resident tuition and fees run $24,653, which is well below the national private sticker, and 89 percent of students receive grant aid. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, 58.0 percent of Oklahoma Law graduates went to work in Oklahoma and 87.0 percent stayed within Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado. The thesis of this page is that University of Oklahoma Law School is one of the better cost-to-outcome bets in its LSAT band for an applicant who wants to practice in Oklahoma or Texas, and that its 162 median sits in the middle of its peer group rather than at the top. If your target market is the Southern Plains and you value low in-state cost, Oklahoma Law rewards a close look.

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

University of Oklahoma Law School posts a 162 LSAT median, a 3.73 GPA median, and a 33.36 percent acceptance rate in Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Resident tuition and fees are $24,653 and nonresident tuition and fees are $39,631. The table below collects the headline admissions, cost, and outcome numbers for Oklahoma Law in one place.

MetricUniversity of Oklahoma Law School (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)159 / 162 / 164GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)3.42 / 3.73 / 3.88Acceptance rate33.36%Applications1,391Offers of admission464Matriculants from the applicant pool197First-year class200Full-time tuition and feesResident $24,653, nonresident $39,631Living expenses$27,748Share receiving grants89%Grant amount (25th / 50th / 75th)$7,700 / $12,000 / $17,000Full-tuition awards0 full-tuition, 12 above full tuitionConditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage88.77% (exam year 2024, Oklahoma)Employed at ten months94.3% (182 of 193)

Source: University of Oklahoma Law School'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 Oklahoma Law's ABA bar-passage report. 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 invent one.

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

University of Oklahoma Law School reports an LSAT spread of 159 to 164 and a GPA spread of 3.42 to 3.88 in its 2025 ABA 509. A 162 and a 3.73 sit at both medians. Below the 159 LSAT or the 3.42 GPA, you need a clear compensating strength on the other number to stay competitive at Oklahoma Law.

Oklahoma Law reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 159, 162, and 164, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 3.42, 3.73, and 3.88 for the fall 2025 entering class, per University of Oklahoma Law School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of the enrolled students scored above 162 on the LSAT and above 3.73 in GPA, and half scored below. A median is a target rather than a cutoff, but at Oklahoma Law both medians set the center of the class, so treat 162 and 3.73 as the numbers to aim for.

The realistic read at University of Oklahoma Law School is that a 162 LSAT and a 3.73 GPA make you a genuine competitor, and that the 25th percentiles mark the edge of the comfortable range. A 159 LSAT, the bottom quartile, is still inside the class, but it wants a GPA at or above the 3.73 median to carry the file. A 3.42 GPA, likewise the bottom quartile, wants an LSAT at or above 162. Fall below both the 159 LSAT and the 3.42 GPA and the numbers work against you, so the honest advice is to lift at least one of them before you apply to Oklahoma Law.

The shape of those two bands makes University of Oklahoma Law School splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.31 against an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of only 3 points, so the GPA band is comparatively wide and the LSAT band comparatively tight. 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. Oklahoma Law leans splitter: a strong LSAT at or above the 162 median can pull an application through even when the GPA dips toward the 3.42 quartile. If your transcript is uneven but your LSAT is strong, University of Oklahoma Law School is a school worth targeting.

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

University of Oklahoma Law School sits in the middle of its LSAT band, not at the top. Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures places Oklahoma Law 27th most selective of the 43 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of its 162. Its reputation as the state flagship is stronger than its raw selectivity, which is good news for an applicant near the medians.

Reputation places University of Oklahoma Law School as the leading public law school in its state, and its 162 LSAT median is a solid, respectable figure. To test whether that reputation matches its selectivity, Lovare built a peer band of the 43 ABA law schools whose median LSAT lands within two points of Oklahoma Law's 162, that is, a median of 160 to 164, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. By that ranking, Oklahoma Law comes in 27th most selective of the 43, which puts it in the lower-middle of a large and competitive group.

That position is worth reading carefully. A 27th-of-43 ranking by acceptance rate means University of Oklahoma Law School admits a larger share of its applicants than most schools that post the same medians. Its 33.36 percent acceptance rate, from Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure, is not low by national standards, and it reflects a school that draws a moderate applicant pool rather than a national flood. For an applicant, the takeaway is encouraging: Oklahoma Law's brand carries more weight than its admit rate implies, so a file at or slightly below the medians has a realistic path here that it might not have at a more selective school with an identical 162 median.

The honest verdict is that University of Oklahoma Law School is exactly as hard as its numbers say and no harder. It is not a hidden reach that quietly rejects strong files, and it is not a rubber stamp. It is a mid-band public school where the medians are the real gate and the acceptance rate is forgiving relative to its peers. Aim at the 162 and 3.73 medians, and Oklahoma Law becomes a target rather than a reach.

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

University of Oklahoma Law School charges $24,653 in resident tuition and fees and $39,631 for nonresidents, per Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509, plus $27,748 in living expenses. Eighty-nine percent of students receive grants, with a median award of $12,000. Against the nonresident sticker, a median-grant recipient nets about $27,631 in tuition and fees before living costs.

University of Oklahoma Law School is one of the more affordable law schools in its band, and the resident figure is the reason. Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists full-time resident tuition and fees at $24,653 and nonresident tuition and fees at $39,631, plus $27,748 in living expenses. 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 is someone's arithmetic rather than a figure Oklahoma Law reports, and this page will not invent one.

Aid reaches almost the entire class. According to the same 509, 89 percent of University of Oklahoma Law School students receive grant aid, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $7,700, $12,000, and $17,000. Oklahoma Law reports zero full-tuition awards but 12 awards above full tuition, which means a small number of students receive stipends beyond the cost of tuition itself. Those grants blend merit and need-based aid, so not every dollar is a pure merit discount, but the 89 percent reach tells you that a grant of some size is the norm rather than the exception at Oklahoma Law.

For a typical recipient the math is straightforward. Against the $39,631 nonresident sticker, a student receiving University of Oklahoma Law School's median grant of $12,000 nets about $27,631 in tuition and fees before living costs, using figures from Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. For an Oklahoma resident the starting point is far lower: subtract the same $12,000 median grant from the $24,653 resident sticker and a resident nets roughly $12,653 in tuition and fees before living costs. That in-state figure is the single strongest financial argument for University of Oklahoma Law School, and it is why the school reads as a value play for applicants who qualify for resident tuition.

One reassuring detail rounds out the cost picture. Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509 disclosure reports that University of Oklahoma Law School does not use conditional scholarships, so an award is not tied to a first-year class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be cut if your grades slip during the first year. The grant Oklahoma Law quotes at admission is the grant you keep for the duration, which removes a common and stressful risk that applicants at other schools have to weigh.

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

University of Oklahoma Law School does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 197 matriculants against 464 offers is a 42.5 percent yield in Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509. That is a relatively high yield, so Oklahoma Law fills most of its class from first-round offers and its waitlist tends to move less.

Here is the reasoning in full. University of Oklahoma Law School enrolled 197 matriculants from 464 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 42.5 percent. No ABA disclosure, Oklahoma Law's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted from the waitlist or how many accept, so implied yield is the honest proxy for waitlist movement. When more than four in ten admitted students enroll, a school is filling the bulk of its class from its first-round offers and leans less on a waitlist to hit its target.

A 42.5 percent yield is on the higher side, which sets expectations for a waitlisted applicant to University of Oklahoma Law School. Higher yield means fewer admitted students decline, which in turn means fewer seats open late for the waitlist to fill. That does not close the door, but it argues against treating an Oklahoma Law waitlist spot as a likely admit. Some cycles will see movement and others very little, and the higher yield tilts toward the quieter end.

If you land on the University of Oklahoma Law School waitlist, the play is the standard one: send a concise letter of continued interest naming Oklahoma Law as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or improved grades, and keep another acceptance in hand as your plan of record. Do not build your cycle around an Oklahoma Law waitlist spot, but do not abandon it either, because even a high-yield school sees some late attrition every year.

Where do University of Oklahoma Law School graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, University of Oklahoma Law School placed 58.0 percent of graduates in Oklahoma and 87.0 percent across its top three markets of Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 14.0 percent, and 2.1 percent won federal clerkships. Oklahoma Law is a concentrated Oklahoma and Texas feeder.

University of Oklahoma Law School is a regional school, and the employment data makes that word literal. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Oklahoma Law placed 112 of its graduates in Oklahoma, 52 in Texas, and 4 in Colorado. That is a 58.0 percent top-market share and an 87.0 percent top-three share, one of the more concentrated placement profiles in its band: nearly six in ten graduates stay in Oklahoma, and close to nine in ten land within the Oklahoma, Texas, and Colorado corridor.

Concentration is the fact that should drive your decision, because the raw employment rate barely separates peer schools. University of Oklahoma Law School reported 182 of 193 graduates employed at ten months, or 94.3 percent, in the same ABA Employment Summary, which is a strong figure but a common one across its band. What sets Oklahoma Law apart is where those jobs are. If you want to practice in Oklahoma or Texas, the network runs directly to your target market. If your goal is the coasts or the upper Midwest, the 87.0 percent top-three concentration is a candid warning that Oklahoma Law's reach outside the Southern Plains is limited.

On firm size and clerkships, University of Oklahoma Law School reads as a regional-practice school rather than a national BigLaw feeder. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 14.0 percent of Oklahoma Law graduates entering large firms of 101 or more lawyers and 2.1 percent entering federal clerkships. Those shares are modest but real: a meaningful minority of the class reaches large-firm practice, most often in the Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and Texas markets, while the majority build careers in smaller firms, government, and business across the region. Read University of Oklahoma Law School as the right tool for a regional career, not a shortcut to a national firm.

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

This page's sources do not publish University of Oklahoma Law School's application calendar, and Oklahoma Law's Early Decision terms are not confirmed here for the current cycle. Confirm the current regular deadlines and any Early Decision terms directly on the school's admissions site. The guidance here is dated: verified August 2026.

The primary sources behind this page, the 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and Oklahoma Law's ABA bar-passage report, report admissions, cost, and outcome figures but not the cycle-by-cycle application calendar. For that reason this page does not state a specific regular-decision deadline for University of Oklahoma Law School, and it does not state specific Early Decision terms, because those terms are not confirmed here. Rather than repeat a date that could be stale, the honest instruction is to verify the current deadlines on Oklahoma Law's own admissions page before you rely on them.

As general practice that applies across law schools rather than a published Oklahoma Law rule, files reviewed earlier in a cycle tend to meet more open seats and more available scholarship money, so submitting a complete application early in the fall usually helps. Take your strongest LSAT before you apply, since a higher score reshapes both your admissions odds and your grant offer at University of Oklahoma Law School. Treat these as planning principles, and treat the school's admissions page as the authority on the exact dates, verified as of August 2026.

Frequently asked questions about getting into University of Oklahoma Law School

Is a 162 LSAT good enough for Oklahoma Law?

A 162 is exactly the LSAT median at University of Oklahoma Law School, per Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 159 to 164. A 162 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, competitive but not a lock. Pair it with a GPA at or above the 3.73 median and you are a strong candidate at Oklahoma Law.

What GPA do you need for Oklahoma Law?

University of Oklahoma Law School reports a GPA median of 3.73, with a 25th-to-75th range of 3.42 to 3.88, in its 2025 ABA 509. Aim for 3.73 or higher. Because Oklahoma Law is splitter friendly, a strong LSAT can help carry a GPA that dips toward the 3.42 quartile, but a transcript at or above the median keeps your file comfortably inside the Oklahoma Law class.

What is Oklahoma Law's acceptance rate?

University of Oklahoma Law School admitted 33.36 percent of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 464 offers against 1,391 applications, according to Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. That rate is moderate for the school's LSAT band. Lovare's analysis places Oklahoma Law 27th most selective of the 43 schools within two points of its 162 median, so it admits more freely than most peers.

How many people apply to Oklahoma Law?

University of Oklahoma Law School received 1,391 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 464 offers, and enrolled 197 matriculants from the pool for a first-year class of 200, per Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509. That is a moderate applicant pool by national standards, and it is part of why Oklahoma Law's 33.36 percent acceptance rate is more forgiving than its flagship reputation might suggest.

How much does Oklahoma Law cost?

University of Oklahoma Law School lists resident tuition and fees of $24,653 and nonresident tuition and fees of $39,631, plus $27,748 in living expenses, in its 2025 ABA 509. Oklahoma Law does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total in the 509, so tuition and living are best read separately rather than summed into an invented all-in figure for the school.

Does Oklahoma Law give scholarships?

Yes. University of Oklahoma Law School reports that 89 percent of students receive grant aid, with awards of $7,700, $12,000, and $17,000 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 12 awards above full tuition, per Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509. The school reports no full-tuition awards, but the 89 percent reach means a grant of some size is the norm at Oklahoma Law.

What is Oklahoma Law's bar passage rate?

University of Oklahoma Law School posted an 88.77 percent first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, with Oklahoma as the largest jurisdiction, according to Oklahoma Law's ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, was 95.73 percent. Both figures are strong, and the ultimate rate shows that almost every Oklahoma Law graduate who sits for a bar exam eventually passes.

Where do Oklahoma Law graduates work?

Most stay in Oklahoma. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows University of Oklahoma Law School placed 112 graduates in Oklahoma, 52 in Texas, and 4 in Colorado, a 58.0 percent top-market share and 87.0 percent across the top three. Oklahoma Law is a concentrated Southern Plains feeder, strongest for applicants who want to practice in Oklahoma or Texas.

Can a splitter get into Oklahoma Law?

A splitter has a real path. Lovare reads University of Oklahoma Law School as splitter friendly, with a wider GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.31 against a tighter LSAT spread of 3 points in the 2025 ABA 509. That means Oklahoma Law forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, so a strong-LSAT applicant with a GPA near the 3.42 quartile is more viable here than the reverse.

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

University of Oklahoma Law School is in the lower-middle of its band. Lovare's analysis of the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures ranks Oklahoma Law 27th most selective of the 43 schools whose median LSAT sits within two points of its 162. In plain terms, most schools that post the same 162 median admit a smaller share of applicants, so Oklahoma Law is a comparatively forgiving admit for its scores.

Is Oklahoma Law worth it?

For a regional career, the value is strong. University of Oklahoma Law School pairs a $24,653 resident sticker and 89 percent grant reach with an 88.77 percent first-time bar rate and, in the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, a 94.3 percent employment rate concentrated in Oklahoma and Texas. For an applicant aiming at the Southern Plains, Oklahoma Law's low in-state cost makes the return especially favorable.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at an Oklahoma Law scholarship?

Scores above the medians. Because University of Oklahoma Law School spreads grants across 89 percent of the class, pushing your LSAT above the 162 median toward the 164 upper quartile, and your GPA above 3.73 toward the 3.88 quartile, positions you for the larger awards in Oklahoma Law's 2025 ABA 509 range, where the 75th-percentile grant reaches $17,000 and 12 awards exceed full tuition.

How hard is the first year at Oklahoma Law?

University of Oklahoma Law School reports first-year academic attrition of 1.0 percent in its 2025 ABA 509, which is low. That figure means very few first-year students leave Oklahoma Law for academic reasons, a sign that admitted students are prepared for the work and that the school is not admitting a large class it expects to wash out. It is a reassuring number for an incoming student.

Do Oklahoma Law graduates leave the state?

A sizable minority do, mostly for Texas. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows University of Oklahoma Law School sent 52 of its graduates to Texas against 112 who stayed in Oklahoma, so Texas is a strong secondary market. Beyond those two states the numbers thin quickly, with just 4 graduates in Colorado, so Oklahoma Law's reach is real but regionally bounded.

Sources

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

University of Oklahoma Law School 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=122&year=2025

University of Oklahoma Law School ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=122&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=122&year=2024

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