How to Get Into Vermont Law and Graduate School: LSAT, GPA & Admissions (2026)

The short answer to how to get into Vermont Law and Graduate School is to reach the medians in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure: a 152 LSAT and a 3.25 GPA. The middle 50 percent scored 148 to 157 on the LSAT and held a 2.81 to 3.61 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. Every figure on this page comes from Vermont Law and Graduate School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class), the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, and Vermont Law and Graduate School's own published pages.

Here is the fact that most distinguishes Vermont Law and Graduate School: its graduates scatter across the country rather than clustering in one market. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, only 12.3% of Vermont Law and Graduate School graduates went to work in Vermont, the school's home state and its single largest market, and the top three markets together took just 27.4%. That is the most geographically distributed placement profile among the schools in this series, and it reflects Vermont Law and Graduate School's national, mission-driven identity. Two more facts complete the picture, and this page states both plainly. Vermont Law and Graduate School funds almost its entire class, with 99% of students receiving grants per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. And its first-time bar passage rate, 64.93% for exam year 2024, sits well below the national norm, a consumer-protective fact an applicant should weigh directly. The thesis of this page is that Vermont Law and Graduate School is an accessible, near-universally funded, nationally distributed school whose lower bar-passage and large-firm figures deserve an honest read before you enroll.

Vermont Law and Graduate School at a glance: LSAT, GPA, acceptance rate and cost

Vermont Law and Graduate School posts a 152 LSAT median, a 3.25 GPA median, and a 58.53% acceptance rate in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Full-time tuition and fees run $55,382, with living expenses of $23,952 printed separately. The table below gathers the headline admissions, cost, and outcome numbers for Vermont Law and Graduate School in one place.

MetricVermont Law and Graduate School (fall 2025 entering class)LSAT (25th / 50th / 75th)148 / 152 / 157GPA (25th / 50th / 75th)2.81 / 3.25 / 3.61Acceptance rate58.53%Applications1,553Offers of admission909Matriculants from the applicant pool289First-year class290 (132 full-time, 158 part-time)Full-time tuition and fees$55,382Living expenses$23,952Share receiving grants99%Median grant$28,000Conditional scholarshipsNoFirst-time bar passage64.93% (exam year 2024, largest jurisdiction Vermont)Employed at ten months88.4% (129 of 146)

Source: Vermont Law and Graduate 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 bar passage from Vermont Law and Graduate School'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 sum them into an all-in figure.

What LSAT and GPA do you really need to get into Vermont Law and Graduate School?

Vermont Law and Graduate School reports an LSAT spread of 148 to 157 and a GPA spread of 2.81 to 3.61 in its 2025 ABA 509. A 152 and a 3.25 sit at both medians. Below the 148 LSAT or the 2.81 GPA, an applicant to Vermont Law and Graduate School needs a clear compensating strength on the other number.

Read the percentiles closely. Vermont Law and Graduate School reports an LSAT 25th, 50th, and 75th percentile of 148, 152, and 157, and a GPA 25th, 50th, and 75th of 2.81, 3.25, and 3.61 for the fall 2025 entering class, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. The median is the fiftieth percentile: half of enrolled students scored above 152 on the LSAT and half below, and the same split holds at 3.25 in GPA. These are accessible medians, and the honest point is worth making plainly: a low-150s LSAT and a low-3.0 GPA are exactly the profile for which Vermont Law and Graduate School is a competitive, well-matched option rather than a reach.

The bands are wide, especially on GPA, which tells you how far the school reaches. From the 25th percentile LSAT of 148 to the median of 152 is a four-point drop, and from the 25th percentile GPA of 2.81 to the median of 3.25 is a 0.44 gap. A 2.81 GPA sits below a 3.0, and it is inside the reported quartile at Vermont Law and Graduate School, so an applicant with a sub-3.0 transcript is genuinely in the admitted range here. A 148 LSAT is likewise inside the band. Nowhere is it true that these numbers close every door, and Vermont Law and Graduate School is a concrete example of a school where a high-140s to low-150s applicant competes from inside the class.

That shape makes Vermont Law and Graduate School splitter friendly. Lovare's read of the 509 spreads shows a GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.44 and an LSAT 25th-to-median spread of four points, so the school reaches well below both medians, and the GPA band is unusually wide. A splitter-friendly school forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, and a reverse-splitter-friendly school forgives a lower LSAT when the GPA is high. Vermont Law and Graduate School leans splitter: an LSAT at or above the 152 median gives strong cover for a GPA that dips toward the 2.81 quartile. If your transcript is uneven but your LSAT holds up, Vermont Law and Graduate School is a school where that profile fits.

Is Vermont Law and Graduate School harder to get into than its reputation?

By the numbers, no. Vermont Law and Graduate School admits 58.53% of applicants and ranks 27th most selective of the 41 schools in its LSAT band, per Lovare's 2025 ABA 509 analysis. So it sits in the lower-middle of its band by selectivity, and its distinction rests on mission and specialty rather than on how hard it is to enter.

Vermont Law and Graduate School carries a national reputation built on a distinctive, mission-driven identity, and that reputation runs ahead of its raw selectivity. Measured by the admissions numbers, the school is accessible. Lovare built a peer band of the 41 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Vermont Law and Graduate School's 152, that is a median of 150 to 154, then ranked them by acceptance rate from the 2025 ABA 509 disclosures. Vermont Law and Graduate School comes out 27th most selective of the 41, which places it in the lower-middle of its band.

Read constructively, that accessibility is the point rather than a flaw. It means an applicant with high-140s to low-150s numbers has a realistic path to Vermont Law and Graduate School, and that a file clearing the 152 and 3.25 medians is competitive. The 58.53% rate is not an open door for every applicant, since more than four in ten are still turned away, but it is accessible enough that Vermont Law and Graduate School belongs on the target list for applicants at this level who are drawn to its mission.

The honest verdict is that Vermont Law and Graduate School is about as accessible as its numbers indicate, and its national name is a matter of identity and focus rather than selectivity. What deserves more of your attention than the admit rate is the outcome data further down this page, particularly the bar-passage and large-firm figures, because those, not the difficulty of admission, are the numbers that should shape an enrollment decision at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

How much does Vermont Law and Graduate School cost, and how much scholarship money will you get?

Vermont Law and Graduate School charges $55,382 in full-time tuition and fees, per its 2025 ABA 509, plus $23,952 in living expenses. Ninety-nine percent of students receive grants, one of the highest reach figures anywhere, with a median award of $28,000. A median-grant recipient nets about $27,382 in tuition and fees before living costs at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Start with the sticker. Vermont Law and Graduate School's 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure lists full-time tuition and fees of $55,382 and living expenses of $23,952. The 509 prints those two figures 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 Vermont Law and Graduate School reports, and this page will not invent one.

Aid at Vermont Law and Graduate School is nearly universal. According to the same 509, 99% of students receive grant aid, with awards at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles of $18,000, $28,000, and $41,250. Vermont Law and Graduate School reports 42 full-tuition awards and no awards above full tuition for the entering class. A 99% grant reach means that receiving aid is effectively the default at Vermont Law and Graduate School, and 42 full-tuition awards is a substantial number for a class this size, so a strong file has a real shot at having tuition covered outright.

For a typical recipient the math is direct. Against the $55,382 sticker, a student receiving Vermont Law and Graduate School's median grant of $28,000 nets about $27,382 in tuition and fees before living costs, using figures from its 2025 ABA 509 disclosure. That roughly halves the sticker for a median-grant student. The aid is stable as well: Vermont Law and Graduate School does not use conditional scholarships, so an award is not tied to a first-year class-rank or GPA threshold and cannot be clawed back if your grades slip. The grant Vermont Law and Graduate School quotes at admission is the grant you keep, which matters most at a school where the near-universal aid is central to the value case.

What are your real chances off the Vermont Law and Graduate School waitlist?

Vermont Law and Graduate School does not disclose waitlist offers or admits, and no ABA report does. The honest proxy is implied yield: 289 matriculants against 909 offers is a 31.8% yield at Vermont Law and Graduate School. That moderate figure means the school fills much of its class from first-round offers while leaving some room for waitlist movement.

Here is the reasoning in full. Vermont Law and Graduate School enrolled 289 matriculants from 909 offers in its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, an implied yield of 31.8%. No ABA disclosure, Vermont Law and Graduate School's included, publishes how many applicants are admitted off the waitlist or how many of them accept, so implied yield is the honest stand-in for waitlist behavior. When about a third of admitted students enroll, a school fills most of its class from first-round offers but still leaves room that a waitlist can fill in some cycles.

A 31.8% yield is moderate for Vermont Law and Graduate School, which puts it between the extremes. It is higher than a school that yields a fifth of its offers and leans hard on its waitlist, and lower than a school that yields close to half and barely moves its list. For a waitlisted applicant to Vermont Law and Graduate School, that means real but limited hope, with movement that varies from year to year and depends on how the first-round class settles.

If you land on the Vermont Law and Graduate School waitlist, the play is standard. Send a concise letter of continued interest that names Vermont Law and Graduate School as a top choice, add any new LSAT score or fall grades, and keep another acceptance in hand. One honest footnote on the class numbers: Vermont Law and Graduate School lists 289 matriculants from the applicant pool but a first-year class of 290, and the small gap reflects students who arrive through paths other than this single cycle's pool, such as admitted students who deferred from a prior year. Note too that a majority of the first-year class, 158 of 290, is part-time, which is unusual and reflects the school's flexible program structure. The 31.8% implied yield is computed from the 289 pool matriculants against the 909 offers, which is the correct comparison for reasoning about this cycle's waitlist odds at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Where do Vermont Law and Graduate School graduates actually work?

In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Vermont Law and Graduate School placed just 12.3% of graduates in Vermont and only 27.4% across its top three markets. Large firms of 101 or more lawyers took 4.1%, and 2.1% won federal clerkships. Vermont Law and Graduate School has the most nationally distributed placement of any school in this series.

Lead with concentration, because at Vermont Law and Graduate School the striking feature is how little there is. In the ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024, Vermont Law and Graduate School placed 18 of its graduates in Vermont, 11 in Maryland, and 11 in New York. That is a 12.3% top-market share and a 27.4% top-three share, so fewer than one in eight graduates stays in Vermont and nearly three-quarters of the class begins work outside the top three markets. That pattern fits a national, mission-driven school whose graduates pursue their focus wherever the work is, rather than a regional school feeding one local market. If you want geographic flexibility, Vermont Law and Graduate School is unusually well suited to it. If you want a built-in local network in one city, this is not that kind of school.

The raw employment rate deserves an honest reading. Vermont Law and Graduate School reported 129 of 146 graduates employed at ten months, or 88.4%, in the same ABA Employment Summary. That is a respectable figure, though it sits a step below the mid-90s rates posted by some peers, and it should be read together with the firm-type and bar-passage numbers rather than on its own.

On firm type, Vermont Law and Graduate School is on the low end, which is consistent with its mission. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows 4.1% of Vermont Law and Graduate School graduates taking jobs at large firms of 101 or more lawyers, and 2.1% entering federal clerkships. A 4.1% large-firm share is modest, and it tells you plainly that big-firm placement is not what Vermont Law and Graduate School is built to deliver. Most of its graduates enter public interest, government, small and midsize firms, and mission-aligned roles spread across the country. If a large-firm salary is your primary goal, weigh that 4.1% figure carefully against schools with stronger big-firm pipelines before choosing Vermont Law and Graduate School.

When are Vermont Law and Graduate School's application deadlines?

This page did not pull a verified application deadline or Early Decision terms for Vermont Law and Graduate School, so confirm both directly on Vermont Law and Graduate School's admissions site before you rely on them. What is verifiable here as of August 2026 is the admissions and outcome data below, all drawn from primary ABA disclosures rather than a cycle calendar.

Law school cycle dates shift from year to year, and Vermont Law and Graduate School's Early Decision structure, including whether any ED round is binding, was not among the figures verified for this page. Rather than state a date this page cannot stand behind, the honest instruction is to check the current regular-decision deadline and any Early Decision terms on Vermont Law and Graduate School's own admissions pages. Treat this profile as a data-verified planning aid on scores, cost, and outcomes at Vermont Law and Graduate School, and treat the school's website as the registrar of record for deadlines.

Frequently asked questions about getting into Vermont Law and Graduate School

Is a 152 LSAT good enough for Vermont Law and Graduate School?

A 152 is exactly the LSAT median at Vermont Law and Graduate School, per its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure, where the middle 50 percent scored 148 to 157. A 152 puts you at the fiftieth percentile, competitive at a school that admits 58.53% of applicants. Pair it with a GPA near the 3.25 median and you are a solid candidate at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

What GPA do you need for Vermont Law and Graduate School?

Vermont Law and Graduate School reports a GPA median of 3.25, with a 25th to 75th range of 2.81 to 3.61, in its 2025 ABA 509. Aim for 3.25 or higher to sit at the center of the class. Because the band reaches down to 2.81, a sub-3.0 GPA is inside the admitted range at Vermont Law and Graduate School when the LSAT provides support.

What is Vermont Law and Graduate School's acceptance rate?

Vermont Law and Graduate School admitted 58.53% of applicants for the fall 2025 class, extending 909 offers against 1,553 applications, according to its 2025 ABA Standard 509 disclosure. Among the 41 schools in its LSAT band, that rate ranks Vermont Law and Graduate School 27th most selective, so it admits more freely than most academic peers and is a realistic target.

How many people apply to Vermont Law and Graduate School?

Vermont Law and Graduate School received 1,553 applications for the fall 2025 entering class, made 909 offers, and enrolled 289 matriculants from the pool for a first-year class of 290, per its 2025 ABA 509. A majority of that class, 158 of 290, is part-time, which reflects the flexible program structure at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

How much does Vermont Law and Graduate School cost?

Vermont Law and Graduate School lists full-time tuition and fees of $55,382, plus $23,952 in living expenses, in its 2025 ABA 509. Vermont Law and Graduate School does not publish a single cost-of-attendance total, so tuition and living are best read separately rather than summed into an invented all-in figure for Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Does Vermont Law and Graduate School give scholarships?

Yes, almost universally. Vermont Law and Graduate School reports that 99% of students receive grant aid, with awards of $18,000, $28,000, and $41,250 at the 25th, 50th, and 75th percentiles, plus 42 full-tuition awards, per its 2025 ABA 509. Because Vermont Law and Graduate School uses no conditional scholarships, an award cannot be cut for grades.

What is Vermont Law and Graduate School's bar passage rate?

Vermont Law and Graduate School posted a 64.93% first-time bar passage rate for exam year 2024, largest jurisdiction Vermont, according to its ABA bar-passage report. Its ultimate pass rate, measured two years out for the 2022 cohort, was 76.3%. Both figures sit below the national norm, so an applicant to Vermont Law and Graduate School should treat bar preparation as a serious, planned commitment.

Where do Vermont Law and Graduate School graduates work?

Across the country. The ABA Employment Summary for the Class of 2024 shows Vermont Law and Graduate School placed 18 graduates in Vermont, 11 in Maryland, and 11 in New York, a 12.3% top-market share and 27.4% across the top three. Vermont Law and Graduate School has the most nationally distributed placement of any school in this series.

Can a splitter get into Vermont Law and Graduate School?

Yes, a splitter has a strong path. Lovare reads Vermont Law and Graduate School as splitter friendly, with a wide GPA 25th-to-median spread of 0.44 against a four-point LSAT spread in the 2025 ABA 509. That means Vermont Law and Graduate School forgives a lower GPA when the LSAT is high, so a strong-LSAT applicant with a sub-3.0 GPA is genuinely viable at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

How selective is Vermont Law and Graduate School compared with schools at the same LSAT?

Less selective than most of them. Among the 41 ABA law schools whose median LSAT falls within two points of Vermont Law and Graduate School's 152, it ranks 27th most selective by acceptance rate in the 2025 ABA 509, per Lovare's analysis. That lower-middle finish means Vermont Law and Graduate School admits more freely than most schools at its academic level.

Is Vermont Law and Graduate School worth it?

It depends on your goal, and the honest answer requires reading two numbers together. Vermont Law and Graduate School funds 99% of students and roughly halves the sticker for a median-grant recipient, which is a strong value on cost. But its 64.93% first-time bar passage and 4.1% large-firm share are low, so Vermont Law and Graduate School fits mission-driven, geographically flexible applicants more than those targeting big-firm pay.

What LSAT and GPA give the best shot at a Vermont Law and Graduate School scholarship?

Numbers above the medians. Because Vermont Law and Graduate School reports grant awards reaching $41,250 at the 75th percentile plus 42 full-tuition awards, an LSAT above the 152 median and a GPA above the 3.25 median, moving toward the 157 and 3.61 upper quartiles in its 2025 ABA 509, position you best for the largest grants at Vermont Law and Graduate School.

What is the first-year attrition rate at Vermont Law and Graduate School?

Vermont Law and Graduate School reports first-year academic attrition of 4.0% in its 2025 ABA 509. That is a modest but real figure, meaning a small share of first-year students left for academic reasons. Read together with the bar-passage numbers, it is worth knowing plainly that Vermont Law and Graduate School carries some first-year academic risk that a strong, prepared applicant should plan to clear.

Does Vermont Law and Graduate School have Early Decision?

This page did not verify Early Decision terms for Vermont Law and Graduate School, so confirm on Vermont Law and Graduate School's admissions site whether an Early Decision round exists and whether it is binding. As of August 2026, the verified figures on this page cover scores, cost, aid, bar passage, and employment at Vermont Law and Graduate School, not the cycle calendar.

Sources

Every figure on this page is drawn from primary disclosures, listed here so readers can verify each one directly for Vermont Law and Graduate School.

Vermont Law and Graduate School 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report (fall 2025 entering class): https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/AnnualQuestionnaire/GenerateIndividualDisclosure509Report?schoolId=152&year=2025

Vermont Law and Graduate School ABA bar-passage report: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/BarPassageOutcomes/GenerateIndividualBarPassageReport?schoolId=152&year=2025

ABA Employment Summary, Class of 2024: https://backend.abarequireddisclosures.org/api/EmploymentOutcomes/GenerateIndividualEQSummaryReport?schoolId=152&year=2024

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