What percentage of law school admits actually enroll?

At the median ABA law school, 31.6% of admitted students register — roughly 3 in 10. Across schools the figure ranges from 18.2% to 81.1%. This is expected behaviour, not a sign of failure: admissions offers include waitlist promotions, and admitted students routinely hold and compare multiple offers.

Does a low offer yield mean a school is unpopular?

Not necessarily. Yield measures the gap between how many offers a school extends and how many students choose it. A school with a very broad applicant pool and no full-tuition offers will convert a smaller share, and students frequently choose on net cost, geography or a partner's admission. The 509 does not disclose whether offers included full tuition, which is among the strongest explanations. Class fill is the better measure of whether a school actually filled its class.

How many law schools fill their class?

The median class fill rate across all 196 schools is 98.5%, measured as enrolled students against first-year class capacity. No school exceeds 100%, which confirms the enrolled and class-capacity figures use a consistent basis.

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Law School Offer Yield: How Many Admitted Students Actually Enroll

194 schools with a computable rate · ABA 509, 2025 cycle · lowest first

31.6%

Median offer yield

18.2%

Lowest

81.1%

Highest

98.5%

Median class fill

Across the 196 ABA law schools, the median school sends 136,196 acceptance offers and enrols 41,840 students — a median offer yield of 31.6%, or roughly 3 in 10.

That figure is not an error, and it does not mean schools are failing to fill seats. Offers include every admission granted, including waitlist promotions, while enrollees count only students who registered. A student holding two offers is counted twice in the first number and once in the second. Class fill — measured against actual seat capacity — has a median of 98.5%, which is what tells you whether a school filled its class.

The spread is wide. At the low end, offer yield runs to 18.2%; at the high end it reaches 81.1%. The high end is concentrated among schools with small applicant pools, where the offers count is small enough that most recipients have only one option.

2 schools report zero offers for the reporting period and are excluded from every yield calculation. A missing figure is not a zero yield, and treating it as one would place them falsely at the top of a "least chosen schools" ranking.

Offer yield does not measure school quality. Students commonly hold several offers and choose on net cost, location, or a partner's admission. The 509 does not disclose whether an offer included full tuition, which is among the strongest explanations for a low yield.

Two different numbers

Offer yield and class fill answer different questions, and conflating them is the most common misreading of this data. Yield is measured against offers extended and tells you how many admits chose this school. Fill is measured against seat capacity and tells you whether the class was actually filled.

Measure	Formula	What it answers	Median
Offer yield	enrollees ÷ offers	How strongly admitted students prefer this school over their other options	31.6%
Class fill	enrollees ÷ first-year class size	Whether the school filled the class it planned	98.5%

A school can have the lowest yield on this page and still fill its class completely. That combination usually means it extends a large number of offers rather than that it struggles to fill seats.

Offer yield distribution

Schools grouped by how many of their admitted students enrol. The band boundaries are ours for readability — they are not an official classification — and the school count in each band is given so you can see how the distribution is actually shaped.

Band	Schools	Meaning	Share of schools
Below 25%	35	fewer than 1 in 4 admits enrol	18%
25–40%	123	roughly 1 in 3	63%
40–60%	31	about half	16%
60%+	5	most admits enrol	3%

Full ranking by offer yield

Lowest first. Schools with fewer than 25 offers are excluded because the ratio depends on too few decisions to be comparable.

#	School	State	Applications	Offers	Enrolled	Yield	Offers not taken	Class fill
1	New England Law/Boston	MA	3,997	2,450	445	18.2%	2,005	98.7%
2	Oregon	OR	1,850	1,017	185	18.2%	832	99.5%
3	Santa Clara University	CA	2,575	1,354	253	18.7%	1,101	98.8%
4	Appalachian School of Law	VA	732	446	84	18.8%	362	91.3%
5	Texas A&M University	TX	5,240	634	121	19.1%	513	94.5%
6	DePaul University	IL	2,643	920	185	20.1%	735	99.5%
7	Colorado	CO	3,458	953	192	20.1%	761	96.5%
8	Massachusetts Dartmouth	MA	1,311	684	138	20.2%	546	97.9%
9	American University	DC	5,952	1,981	400	20.2%	1,581	98.8%
10	Northeastern University	MA	5,652	1,369	279	20.4%	1,090	98.6%
11	Brooklyn Law School	NY	4,600	2,024	414	20.5%	1,610	100.0%
12	Quinnipiac University	CT	1,485	640	133	20.8%	507	98.5%
13	Vanderbilt University	TN	6,124	812	170	20.9%	642	98.8%
14	Richmond	VA	1,738	689	146	21.2%	543	100.0%
15	Charleston School of Law	SC	2,215	1,112	237	21.3%	875	98.3%
16	Arizona	AZ	1,781	497	109	21.9%	388	99.1%
17	Drexel University	PA	2,689	797	177	22.2%	620	97.8%
18	San Francisco	CA	2,100	890	198	22.2%	692	98.5%
19	Pepperdine University	CA	4,272	998	223	22.3%	775	98.2%
20	George Washington University, The	DC	9,718	2,644	595	22.5%	2,049	97.2%
21	Case Western Reserve University	OH	2,267	789	178	22.6%	611	98.9%
22	Albany Law School	NY	2,638	988	225	22.8%	763	94.9%
23	Seattle University	WA	2,304	897	209	23.3%	688	100.0%
24	California Western School of Law	CA	2,144	1,006	235	23.4%	771	97.1%
25	St. John's University	NY	4,417	1,018	238	23.4%	780	98.8%
26	Baylor University	TX	3,658	693	165	23.8%	528	100.0%
27	San Diego	CA	4,241	997	239	24.0%	758	99.6%
28	Washington and Lee University	VA	2,341	532	128	24.1%	404	97.7%
29	Washington University (St. Louis)	MO	5,616	1,065	258	24.2%	807	98.9%
30	Loyola University-Chicago	IL	4,244	1,196	291	24.3%	905	98.3%
31	New York Law School	NY	4,114	1,632	400	24.5%	1,232	97.8%
32	Boston University	MA	7,892	953	234	24.6%	719	98.3%
33	Minnesota	MN	3,405	909	225	24.8%	684	98.7%
34	Western New England University	MA	871	452	112	24.8%	340	97.4%
35	Northwestern University	IL	7,976	981	245	25.0%	736	98.0%
36	Suffolk University	MA	3,481	2,153	539	25.0%	1,614	99.1%
37	Cornell University	NY	4,608	838	210	25.1%	628	96.8%
38	Kansas	KS	1,172	458	115	25.1%	343	94.3%
39	Penn State Dickinson Law	PA	1,912	822	208	25.3%	614	96.7%
40	Tennessee	TN	2,176	539	139	25.8%	400	99.3%
41	District of Columbia	DC	749	277	72	26.0%	205	86.7%
42	Hofstra University	NY	2,448	993	259	26.1%	734	98.5%
43	Illinois	IL	2,153	709	187	26.4%	522	99.5%
44	Willamette University	OR	858	527	139	26.4%	388	100.0%
45	Ave Maria School of Law	FL	1,212	569	152	26.7%	417	92.1%
46	Miami	FL	4,593	1,132	306	27.0%	826	97.8%
47	Belmont University	TN	1,337	503	136	27.0%	367	100.0%
48	Maine	ME	915	341	93	27.3%	248	89.4%
49	Lewis & Clark Law School	OR	1,133	620	171	27.6%	449	97.2%
50	Duke University	NC	6,240	804	222	27.6%	582	97.8%
51	Pittsburgh	PA	1,606	560	155	27.7%	405	100.0%
52	North Texas at Dallas	TX	1,883	456	127	27.9%	329	97.7%
53	Syracuse University	NY	2,752	952	266	27.9%	686	98.2%
54	The Ohio State University	OH	2,291	564	158	28.0%	406	99.4%
55	Utah	UT	1,495	378	106	28.0%	272	99.1%
56	Loyola Marymount University-Los Angeles	CA	4,549	1,185	333	28.1%	852	98.5%
57	Cardozo School of Law (Yeshiva University)	NY	3,833	1,133	319	28.2%	814	97.9%
58	Iowa	IA	1,251	554	156	28.2%	398	98.1%
59	Southern California	CA	7,204	805	227	28.2%	578	99.6%
60	Illinois-Chicago	IL	2,488	1,308	369	28.2%	939	97.4%
61	Widener University Commonwealth Law School	PA	909	549	155	28.2%	394	97.5%
62	Western State College of Law (Westcliff University)	CA	916	400	113	28.2%	287	96.6%
63	Wake Forest University	NC	2,883	710	201	28.3%	509	98.5%
64	Kentucky	KY	1,236	504	143	28.4%	361	97.3%
65	Indiana University-Bloomington	IN	1,831	655	186	28.4%	469	100.0%
66	Chicago-Kent College of Law (IIT)	IL	2,212	854	244	28.6%	610	99.6%
67	Georgetown University	DC	13,924	2,193	629	28.7%	1,564	93.6%
68	Tulane University	LA	2,069	827	239	28.9%	588	99.2%
69	Arizona State University	AZ	4,610	912	264	28.9%	648	99.2%
70	Barry University	FL	1,582	885	257	29.0%	628	99.6%
71	Howard University	DC	2,428	584	170	29.1%	414	96.6%
72	Chapman University	CA	2,514	516	152	29.5%	364	99.3%
73	Duquesne University	PA	1,432	619	183	29.6%	436	98.4%
74	Catholic University of America, The	DC	1,867	605	179	29.6%	426	98.4%
75	California College of the Law, San Francisco	CA	4,593	1,262	374	29.6%	888	98.4%
76	Chicago	IL	6,581	641	191	29.8%	450	94.1%
77	Florida International University	FL	3,100	582	175	30.1%	407	100.0%
78	Washington	WA	3,412	669	202	30.2%	467	97.6%
79	Capital University Law School	OH	874	576	174	30.2%	402	96.7%
80	Roger Williams University	RI	1,003	615	186	30.2%	429	98.4%
81	Fordham University	NY	8,811	1,429	433	30.3%	996	97.5%
82	Creighton University	NE	815	526	160	30.4%	366	98.8%
83	New York University	NY	10,546	1,412	430	30.5%	982	95.1%
84	Cincinnati	OH	1,353	443	135	30.5%	308	97.1%
85	Houston	TX	3,510	807	246	30.5%	561	98.8%
86	the Pacific (McGeorge)	CA	1,248	679	207	30.5%	472	97.2%
87	Maryland	MD	2,876	750	229	30.5%	521	100.0%
88	Alabama	AL	1,748	448	137	30.6%	311	97.9%
89	Texas Southern University	TX	2,032	673	207	30.8%	466	93.7%
90	Villanova University	PA	2,889	749	231	30.8%	518	99.6%
91	Gonzaga University	WA	1,273	651	201	30.9%	450	99.0%
92	Denver	CO	2,214	915	283	30.9%	632	99.3%
93	California-Los Angeles	CA	8,623	1,039	322	31.0%	717	98.2%
94	Northern Illinois University	IL	951	421	131	31.1%	290	97.8%
95	Georgia	GA	4,695	597	186	31.2%	411	100.0%
96	Temple University	PA	3,043	742	232	31.3%	510	97.9%
97	Hawaii	HI	1,654	434	137	31.6%	297	97.9%
98	Georgia State University	GA	2,450	749	237	31.6%	512	100.0%
99	Texas Tech University	TX	2,011	515	163	31.7%	352	97.0%
100	Notre Dame	IN	3,579	575	182	31.7%	393	98.4%
101	Southern Illinois University	IL	724	407	129	31.7%	278	97.0%
102	Vermont Law School	VT	1,553	909	289	31.8%	620	99.7%
103	Pace University	NY	2,293	1,012	322	31.8%	690	99.4%
104	City University of New York (CUNY)	NY	2,300	659	210	31.9%	449	95.9%
105	Atlanta's John Marshall Law School	GA	1,274	416	133	32.0%	283	96.4%
106	Nova Southeastern University	FL	1,458	690	222	32.2%	468	98.7%
107	Seton Hall University	NJ	2,714	930	300	32.3%	630	99.3%
108	Connecticut	CT	2,299	461	149	32.3%	312	98.7%
109	New Hampshire	NH	1,455	756	245	32.4%	511	98.8%
110	Montana	MT	568	292	95	32.5%	197	100.0%
111	Drake University	IA	788	432	141	32.6%	291	100.0%
112	Cleveland State University	OH	1,733	597	195	32.7%	402	100.0%
113	Toledo	OH	733	385	126	32.7%	259	100.0%
114	Stetson University	FL	2,791	1,017	333	32.7%	684	99.1%
115	South Dakota	SD	404	253	83	32.8%	170	94.3%
116	Emory University	GA	3,931	1,183	389	32.9%	794	99.5%
117	California-Davis	CA	3,896	622	205	33.0%	417	98.1%
118	Florida A&M University	FL	1,546	536	177	33.0%	359	100.0%
119	Boston College	MA	7,668	650	216	33.2%	434	98.6%
120	Rutgers University	NJ	4,305	1,444	480	33.2%	964	98.2%
121	Campbell University	NC	1,168	592	197	33.3%	395	97.5%
122	Touro University	NY	1,462	667	222	33.3%	445	99.6%
123	Jacksonville University	FL	572	201	67	33.3%	134	95.7%
124	Cooley Law School	MI	1,323	700	235	33.6%	465	99.2%
125	St. Thomas (Minnesota)	MN	847	488	164	33.6%	324	97.6%
126	Dayton	OH	1,611	494	167	33.8%	327	99.4%
127	California-Irvine	CA	3,720	555	188	33.9%	367	99.5%
128	Southern Methodist University	TX	3,038	747	254	34.0%	493	100.0%
129	Mercer University	GA	1,184	447	152	34.0%	295	100.0%
130	South Carolina	SC	2,114	632	215	34.0%	417	97.3%
131	Nebraska	NE	1,096	440	152	34.5%	288	98.7%
132	Southwestern Law School	CA	3,584	1,307	454	34.7%	853	98.9%
133	Loyola University-New Orleans	LA	1,241	632	220	34.8%	412	98.7%
134	Widener University Delaware Law School	DE	1,317	786	276	35.1%	510	99.6%
135	Florida State University	FL	2,711	433	153	35.3%	280	100.0%
136	Florida	FL	3,887	642	228	35.5%	414	99.6%
137	California-Berkeley	CA	6,562	974	348	35.7%	626	93.0%
138	George Mason University	VA	2,792	443	159	35.9%	284	100.0%
139	St. Mary's University	TX	2,906	755	273	36.2%	482	96.8%
140	Mississippi Christian University School of Law (MC Law)	MS	806	482	175	36.3%	307	97.8%
141	Columbia University	NY	9,463	1,120	411	36.7%	709	92.6%
142	Samford University	AL	925	453	168	37.1%	285	98.8%
143	Missouri	MO	798	335	125	37.3%	210	96.9%
144	Baltimore	MD	1,299	643	240	37.3%	403	96.8%
145	Liberty University	VA	628	369	138	37.4%	231	97.9%
146	Lincoln Memorial University	TN	828	432	162	37.5%	270	99.4%
147	Michigan State University	MI	1,526	397	150	37.8%	247	100.0%
148	William & Mary Law School	VA	2,176	478	181	37.9%	297	98.4%
149	Northern Kentucky University	KY	661	388	147	37.9%	241	94.8%
150	St. Thomas University (Florida)	FL	1,771	1,067	409	38.3%	658	94.9%
151	North Dakota	ND	401	253	97	38.3%	156	100.0%
152	New Mexico	NM	640	265	102	38.5%	163	94.4%
153	Elon University	NC	1,107	589	227	38.5%	362	99.6%
154	Pennsylvania	PA	8,074	650	254	39.1%	396	95.8%
155	Louisville	KY	579	367	144	39.2%	223	99.3%
156	Idaho	ID	740	494	194	39.3%	300	98.5%
157	University at Buffalo	NY	977	414	163	39.4%	251	97.6%
158	Mississippi	MS	958	402	159	39.6%	243	99.4%
159	Wayne State University	MI	1,290	320	128	40.0%	192	99.2%
160	Memphis	TN	582	239	96	40.2%	143	100.0%
161	Detroit Mercy	MI	1,478	612	246	40.2%	366	99.6%
162	Tulsa	OK	509	288	118	41.0%	170	100.0%
163	Texas	TX	6,297	881	361	41.0%	520	96.8%
164	Wyoming	WY	483	173	71	41.0%	102	95.9%
165	Saint Louis University	MO	941	531	220	41.4%	311	99.1%
166	Oklahoma City University	OK	715	369	155	42.0%	214	96.9%
167	Oklahoma	OK	1,391	464	196	42.2%	268	98.0%
168	Michigan	MI	8,982	770	329	42.7%	441	95.9%
169	Southern University	LA	1,153	652	281	43.1%	371	93.7%
170	Missouri-Kansas City	MO	714	328	142	43.3%	186	99.3%
171	Mitchell/Hamline School of Law	MN	1,603	824	360	43.7%	464	98.9%
172	Virginia	VA	6,734	685	302	44.1%	383	97.7%
173	Akron	OH	762	446	199	44.6%	247	98.0%
174	Arkansas at Little Rock	AR	603	331	150	45.3%	181	97.4%
175	North Carolina	NC	3,459	387	176	45.5%	211	97.2%
176	Wisconsin	WI	2,479	474	220	46.4%	254	98.2%
177	South Texas College of Law Houston	TX	2,770	932	434	46.6%	498	99.3%
178	Marquette University	WI	2,112	467	218	46.7%	249	100.0%
179	Louisiana State University	LA	1,253	483	228	47.2%	255	99.1%
180	Faulkner University	AL	620	334	159	47.6%	175	95.2%
181	West Virginia University	WV	590	238	114	47.9%	124	100.0%
182	Nevada-Las Vegas	NV	1,056	325	156	48.0%	169	100.0%
183	Wilmington University School of Law	DE	273	142	69	48.6%	73	92.0%
184	Stanford University	CA	5,526	337	173	51.3%	164	89.6%
185	Regent University	VA	537	238	126	52.9%	112	99.2%
186	Washburn University	KS	549	255	136	53.3%	119	99.3%
187	Arkansas	AR	950	253	135	53.4%	118	100.0%
188	Indiana University-Indianapolis	IN	904	505	273	54.1%	232	97.5%
189	Harvard University	MA	8,872	816	483	59.2%	333	83.4%
190	Inter American University of Puerto Rico	PR	542	276	205	74.3%	71	100.0%
191	Yale University	CT	5,562	226	175	77.4%	51	85.8%
192	Puerto Rico	PR	383	152	121	79.6%	31	99.2%
193	Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico	PR	325	200	161	80.5%	39	100.0%
194	Brigham Young University	UT	649	148	120	81.1%	28	98.4%

Not in this ranking

2 schools report zero offers in the source data while also reporting enrolled students, which is not a possible combination — the offer figure is missing rather than genuinely zero. They are excluded from every calculation above rather than treated as 0% yield.

School	Applications	Offers	Enrolled	Class fill
North Carolina Central University	1,303	not reported	130	97.7%
Ohio Northern University	1,355	not reported	129	100.0%

Class fill ranking

The complementary measure: enrolled students against first-year class capacity. Lowest first, since these are the schools with the largest gap between planned and actual class size.

#	School	State	Class size	Enrolled	Seats unfilled	Fill	Offer yield
1	Harvard University	MA	579	483	96	83.4%	59.2%
2	Yale University	CT	204	175	29	85.8%	77.4%
3	District of Columbia	DC	83	72	11	86.7%	26.0%
4	Maine	ME	104	93	11	89.4%	27.3%
5	Stanford University	CA	193	173	20	89.6%	51.3%
6	Appalachian School of Law	VA	92	84	8	91.3%	18.8%
7	Wilmington University School of Law	DE	75	69	6	92.0%	48.6%
8	Ave Maria School of Law	FL	165	152	13	92.1%	26.7%
9	Columbia University	NY	444	411	33	92.6%	36.7%
10	California-Berkeley	CA	374	348	26	93.0%	35.7%
11	Georgetown University	DC	672	629	43	93.6%	28.7%
12	Texas Southern University	TX	221	207	14	93.7%	30.8%
13	Southern University	LA	300	281	19	93.7%	43.1%
14	Chicago	IL	203	191	12	94.1%	29.8%
15	Kansas	KS	122	115	7	94.3%	25.1%
16	South Dakota	SD	88	83	5	94.3%	32.8%
17	New Mexico	NM	108	102	6	94.4%	38.5%
18	Texas A&M University	TX	128	121	7	94.5%	19.1%
19	Northern Kentucky University	KY	155	147	8	94.8%	37.9%
20	St. Thomas University (Florida)	FL	431	409	22	94.9%	38.3%
21	Albany Law School	NY	237	225	12	94.9%	22.8%
22	New York University	NY	452	430	22	95.1%	30.5%
23	Faulkner University	AL	167	159	8	95.2%	47.6%
24	Jacksonville University	FL	70	67	3	95.7%	33.3%
25	Pennsylvania	PA	265	254	11	95.8%	39.1%
26	City University of New York (CUNY)	NY	219	210	9	95.9%	31.9%
27	Michigan	MI	343	329	14	95.9%	42.7%
28	Wyoming	WY	74	71	3	95.9%	41.0%
29	Atlanta's John Marshall Law School	GA	138	133	5	96.4%	32.0%
30	Colorado	CO	199	192	7	96.5%	20.1%

No school exceeds 100% fill, which confirms the enrolled and class-capacity figures in the 509 use a consistent basis. Even the lowest figure on this page leaves the class substantially filled — low yield and low fill are not the same problem.

What drives yield, and what this data cannot show

Yield correlates with how many offers a school extends: schools with very large offer counts convert a smaller share, because each admitted student is one of many options available to them. Median yield by tuition level, where the school reports an annual figure:

Annual tuition	Schools	Median offer yield
Tuition under $30,000	38	34.0%
Tuition $30,000–$50,000	42	32.2%
Tuition $50,000–$70,000	55	29.5%
Tuition over $70,000	27	28.2%

Read this table as description, not explanation

The tuition grouping is correlational. Cheaper schools having higher yield may reflect cost, geographic location, applicant pool size, or scholarship policy. This dataset cannot separate them.
The 509 does not disclose whether offers include full tuition. That is likely among the strongest drivers of yield, and it is exactly what is missing here.
External factors are invisible. Students hold offers across schools and choose on scholarships, a partner's admission, geography, or family reasons. None of that appears in the disclosure.
One cohort, no trend. The 509 reports the most recent entering class only, so nothing on this page describes change over time.

Source: ABA Standard 509 Required Disclosures, 2025 reporting cycle. Applications, offers and enrollees describe the most recent entering class. Offer yield is enrollees divided by offers extended; class fill is enrollees divided by first-year class size. Neither is a measure of school quality.