Santa Clara University Scholarship Calculator
Enter your LSAT and GPA to see where you stand against Santa Clara University's admitted class and the grant range it actually publishes.
Santa Clara University reports a median grant of $40,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 61% of its students receive aid, with 19% of aid recipients covering full tuition or more. This school reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, and the median award is worth about 18 credit hours of tuition at its published rate of $2,260 per credit hour.
Enter your LSAT and/or GPA to see where you stand against this school's admitted class.
How this school's aid is distributed
Santa Clara University splits its aid across four tiers. The share of students in each tier is what the school reports to the ABA — it is not a projection.
What three years would actually cost you
Santa Clara University reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, so no three-year cost figure is estimated for it. Its published rate is $2,260 per credit hour.
No annual total is estimated for this school because it reports tuition per credit hour. Converting that to a three-year figure would require assuming how many credits a student takes — a guess that would make the number wrong rather than merely imprecise. See what this school does publish →
Is this school worth your score?
This school is not in the comparison set for this measure — it reports tuition per credit hour or is missing one of the two figures needed.
Conditional scholarships at Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University gave conditional scholarships to 110 students in 2024, and 71% kept the award after review — 32 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 Santa Clara University keeping more conditional scholarships?
Between 2022 and 2024, Santa Clara University has been keeping more of them: the share of conditional scholars who kept their award moved from 66.2% to 70.9%, with 110 students entering with a conditional award in 2024. That path was not straight: it stood at 54.1% in 2023.
| Entering class | Entered with a conditional award | Kept it after year one | Reduced or eliminated |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 71 students | 66.2% | 24 students |
| 2023 | 37 students | 54.1% | 17 students |
| 2024 | 110 students | 70.9% | 32 students |
Is Santa Clara University getting more competitive?
Applications to Santa Clara University rose from 2,228 for the 2015 entering class to 2,575 for 2025, while the class enrolled 253 students — so there were 10.2 applicants per place, against 8.6 in 2015. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 8 to 10.2, and competition for each place has tightened.
| Entering class | Applications | Offers | Enrolled | Applicants per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 2,228 | 1,351 | 260 | 8.6 |
| 2021 | 2,338 | 1,247 | 220 | 10.6 |
| 2022 | 1,968 | 1,029 | 199 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 1,913 | 1,003 | 240 | 8 |
| 2024 | 1,981 | 1,314 | 244 | 8.1 |
| 2025 | 2,575 | 1,354 | 253 | 10.2 |
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 Santa Clara University compares to schools at the same level
These are the schools with the closest median LSAT to Santa Clara 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.
| School | Median grant / yr | Grant vs. selectivity | Three-year net cost | % receiving aid | Applicants per place | Competition, last 3 years | Conditional retention |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara University (this school) | $40,000 | — | — | 61% | 10.2 | tightening | 70.9% |
| Albany Law School | $38,000 | 0 pt | $144,234 | 94% | 11.7 | tightening | — |
| Penn State Dickinson Law | $36,000 | 0 pt | $160,143 | 100% | 9.2 | easing | — |
| DePaul University | $34,950 | 0 pt | $149,364 | 99% | 14.3 | tightening | — |
| Seattle University | $30,000 | — | — | 87% | 11 | tightening | 74.3% |
| University of Denver | $30,000 | 0 pt | $183,216 | 78% | 7.8 | level | 100.0% |
| Drexel University | $28,667 | 0 pt | $174,615 | 76% | 15.2 | tightening | 86.7% |
| St. Thomas, (Minneapolis) University of | $26,865 | 0 pt | $156,525 | 100% | 5.2 | easing | — |
| Stetson University | $25,000 | 0 pt | $178,293 | 88% | 8.4 | tightening | 91.7% |
| University of Cincinnati | $19,000 | 0 pt | $95,298 | 100% | 10 | tightening | — |
| Texas Tech University | $12,000 | 0 pt | $106,917 | 88% | 12.3 | tightening | — |
| University of Kentucky | $11,000 | 0 pt | $119,208 | 98% | 8.6 | tightening | — |
| University of Arkansas | $9,000 | — | — | 87% | 7 | tightening | — |
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
Santa Clara University is in . It admits 52.6% of applicants, and 61% 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
- Santa Clara University financial aid breakdown — coverage, award size, all four tiers and conditional outcomes
- Santa Clara University ABA 509 report — every figure from the disclosure, section by section
- Santa Clara University cost of attendance — three-year total cost, ranked against every school
- Santa Clara University admissions data — acceptance, LSAT, GPA, bar passage and class size
- All-school scholarship estimator — compare every ABA law school at once
Common questions
How much scholarship does Santa Clara University give?
Santa Clara University reports a median grant of $40,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 61% of its students receive aid, with 19% of aid recipients covering full tuition or more. This school reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, and the median award is worth about 18 credit hours of tuition at its published rate of $2,260 per credit hour.
What LSAT and GPA does Santa Clara University admit?
Santa Clara University admitted students with LSAT scores between 157 and 162, with a median of 159. Its 25th-percentile undergraduate GPA is 3.21 and its 75th-percentile GPA is 3.74, with a median of 3.5.
Does Santa Clara University reduce conditional scholarships?
Santa Clara University gave conditional scholarships to 110 students in 2024, and 71% kept the award after review — 32 students had it reduced.
What do the position labels mean?
Above the median means your LSAT is above the school's 75th-percentile LSAT, so you sit in the top quarter of its entering class. Competitive means your LSAT falls between the school's median and 75th-percentile LSAT, which is the range where most admitted students sit. Below the median means your LSAT is between the school's 25th and 50th-percentile LSAT, inside the bottom half of its entering class. Below the 25th percentile means your LSAT is under the bottom quarter of the school's admitted class, and its published aid figures describe students who were admitted rather than your case.
Is Santa Clara University keeping more conditional scholarships than before?
Between 2022 and 2024, Santa Clara University has been keeping more of them: the share of conditional scholars who kept their award moved from 66.2% to 70.9%, with 110 students entering with a conditional award in 2024. That path was not straight: it stood at 54.1% in 2023.
Is Santa Clara University becoming more competitive?
Applications to Santa Clara University rose from 2,228 for the 2015 entering class to 2,575 for 2025, while the class enrolled 253 students — so there were 10.2 applicants per place, against 8.6 in 2015. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 8 to 10.2, and competition for each place has tightened.
Is Santa Clara University worth its score compared with other law schools?
This school is not in the comparison set for this measure — it reports tuition per credit hour or is missing one of the two figures needed.
Is this an estimate of my offer?
No, and it cannot be. The ABA Standard 509 disclosures publish each school's overall aid distribution, not a mapping from LSAT scores to award amounts. This page shows you Santa Clara University's real published figures and where your scores land against its admitted class. A tool that prints a single dollar figure for your score is running a model, and the error is invisible to you.