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OpenLawPrep publishes the American Bar Association’s Standard 509 Required Disclosures for all 196 ABA-approved law schools. Free, no account, no paywall. Here is how to cite it and how to reach us.
Last updated: October 2026
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Key findings you can cite
These are the figures journalists and bloggers ask for most. Every one is computed from the published files, and every one links to the page or file that supports it. If a number is not here, ask and we will tell you whether we have it.
| Finding | Figure | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Law school applications, 2015–2025 | 316,319 → 486,718 | +53.9% across a fixed set of 180 schools |
| Offers, 2015–2025 | 133,676 → 124,830 | -6.6% — the number of seats barely moved |
| Offer rate (offers ÷ applications) | 42.3% → 25.6% | more applicants competing for roughly the same number of seats |
| Yield rate (enrollees ÷ offers) | 24.3% → 30.5% | admitted students enrolled at a higher rate — the squeeze came from the applicant side, not from schools admitting fewer people |
| First-year cost (tuition + mandatory fees + living) | $79,508 | median per year across 152 schools with a complete cost picture (tuition + mandatory fees + living); the three-year total is about $715,572 |
| Schools reporting per-credit tuition | 32 | these have no annual total, and we do not infer one — multiplying by an assumed course load would be a guess, and guesses reorder rankings |
The year-over-year series behind these figures is on the trends page, and the underlying files are on the CSV download page. Read the data guide before quoting a number — it states which blanks are genuinely unreported, and why a blank must never be read as zero.
How to cite us
Cite the school page that contains the figure, not this page. Each school page carries every field the ABA filed for that school, with a link to the original report so your reader can check the number themselves.
| Type | Format |
|---|---|
| Web page | School Name — Admissions Data. OpenLawPrep. 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosures. https://www.openlawprep.com/schools/[school-slug]/ |
| With access date | OpenLawPrep, “Akron, The University of”, 2025 ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosures, accessed [DD Month YYYY]. |
| Data guide (for methodology) | Data guide: how to read every number on this site. OpenLawPrep, October 2026. https://www.openlawprep.com/data-guide/ |
Please do not describe us as a ranking. We publish what schools disclose and we do not recommend one school over another. If you need a recommendation, that is a different question and we are not the right source.
Where every number comes from
Every school-level figure comes from the ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosures (2025 reporting cycle), supplemented by official LSAC score-conversion data. There are no estimates, no third-party models, and no sponsored placement. The data guide documents what each field measures, which year it describes, and the comparisons we deliberately do not make.
We also publish the original documents. Each school page links directly to the ABA’s own PDF for that school — the 509 Information Report, the bar passage report, and the employment summary. Example:
- Harvard University — 509 PDF, bar passage PDF, employment PDF
- Yale University — 509 PDF, bar passage PDF, employment PDF
- Stanford University — 509 PDF, bar passage PDF, employment PDF
What you can find here
- All 196 ABA-approved law schools — applications, offers, enrollees, class size, LSAT and GPA percentiles
- Cost of attendance — tuition, mandatory fees, living expenses, and the three-year total, with per-credit schools handled separately
- Grants and scholarships — coverage rates, award quartiles, four-band distribution, and conditional-scholarship retention
- Rankings by a single metric — median LSAT, acceptance rate, bar passage, and more
- LSAT score converter and LSAC GPA calculator — free, no signup
- RSS feed — every article, as they publish
Mirrors of this dataset
The same files are published on external dataset hosts, so you can pull them from wherever your workflow already lives. All copies are generated from the same source files on the same day — if a number differs between copies, this page is the one to trust, and we want to know about it.
- Kaggle — the 2025 snapshot and the 2015–2025 trend series, as CSV and JSON
- Hugging Face — loadable straight from Python with
load_dataset("Tianen/law-school-admissions", "snapshot_2025") - GitHub — the files plus the scripts that rebuild them from the ABA source data, and a CITATION file if you need to reference this in an article
The canonical copies remain the ones on this site: 2025 snapshot (CSV), 2025 snapshot (JSON), trend series (CSV), trend series (JSON).
Reproducible analysis
The notebook below recomputes the headline finding straight from the published files — no hidden steps, no manual spreadsheet work. Open it on Kaggle and run it against the dataset to reproduce every figure.
- ABA Law School Data 2015-2025: Applications +54% — a public notebook that reproduces the applications-versus-offers gap from the raw CSVs, and shows how the data should and should not be read
Corrections
We publish what schools file, including filings that are internally inconsistent. If you find a number that does not match the source, tell us which school and which field and we will check it against the disclosure. Corrections get made, not argued about.
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