Chapman University Scholarship Calculator

Enter your LSAT and GPA to see where you stand against Chapman University's admitted class and the grant range it actually publishes.

Chapman University reports a median grant of $59,500 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 59% of its students receive aid, with 15% of aid recipients covering full tuition or more. The median award covers about 94% of annual tuition, so the school still costs roughly $3,626 per year in tuition after aid.

What three years would actually cost you

At Chapman University, three years of tuition, housing and fees cost $288,471 before aid. A grant of $35,000 to $64,500 a year would leave you paying between $94,971 and $183,471 over three years. The lower figure assumes the larger award applies every year, so treat it as a floor rather than a bill.

The net figure applies this school's median award to every year and every student, so it is a floor rather than a bill — it excludes students who receive nothing, tuition increases, and living costs beyond what this school publishes. See the full cost breakdown →

Is this school worth your score?

Chapman University sits in the 61st percentile of law schools by median LSAT but the 99th percentile by median grant, so it gives more aid than its selectivity suggests. Among the 164 schools with both figures reported, that is a gap of 38 percentile points.

Selectivity and generosity are two different things. A school can sit high on one and low on the other — and that gap is the part worth knowing before you decide where to apply.

The comparison set is the 164 schools that report an annual tuition figure and a median grant. Schools reporting tuition per credit hour are excluded because there is no annual aid figure to line up against. Percentiles are rank positions, not estimates.

Where this school sits against the extremes

The most and least generous schools relative to their own selectivity, for reference:

Conditional scholarships at Chapman University

Chapman University gave conditional scholarships to 84 students in 2024, and 57% kept the award after review — 36 students had it reduced.

Conditional scholarships are awarded on need but have to be re-earned every year. If you drop below the GPA threshold, the award can be cut — this is the school's own reported figure, not an estimate. See the retention data for every school →

Is Chapman University keeping more conditional scholarships?

Between 2022 and 2024, Chapman University has been keeping more of them: the share of conditional scholars who kept their award moved from 54.5% to 57.1%, with 84 students entering with a conditional award in 2024. That path was not straight: it stood at 64.0% in 2023.

Is Chapman University getting more competitive?

Applications to Chapman University rose from 1,543 for the 2015 entering class to 2,514 for 2025, while the class enrolled 152 students — so there were 16.5 applicants per place, against 10.4 in 2015. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 13.3 to 16.5, and competition for each place has tightened.

Applicants per place is applications divided by the number who actually enrolled. It moves with how selective the school is, not with how many offers it sends — a school can issue more offers without becoming harder to get into. The summary above judges the direction over the three most recent entering classes, not across the whole span: a single unusual year in the middle of eleven is not a trend.

How Chapman University compares to schools at the same level

These are the schools with the closest median LSAT to Chapman University's. The table sorts by median grant, because that is usually what the comparison turns on once the academic profile is close enough — and the three-year net cost column shows what each of those grants actually leaves you paying.

Applicants per place is applications divided by students who enrolled. The competition column compares the most recent three entering classes rather than the full span, because a single year in the middle of that span is not a trend. Conditional retention is the share of students who kept a need-based conditional scholarship after year one review.

What this school's numbers mean

Chapman University is in . It admits 20.5% of applicants, and 59% of its students receive financial aid.

The four tiers above come straight from the school's 509 disclosure. They matter because the same coverage figure can mean very different things — a school where most awards are half-tuition grants and one where most are full-tuition grants offer students something quite different.

Related pages

• Chapman University financial aid breakdown — coverage, award size, all four tiers and conditional outcomes
• Chapman University ABA 509 report — every figure from the disclosure, section by section
• Chapman University cost of attendance — three-year total cost, ranked against every school
• Chapman University admissions data — acceptance, LSAT, GPA, bar passage and class size
• All-school scholarship estimator — compare every ABA law school at once