Widener University Commonwealth Law School Scholarship Calculator
Enter your LSAT and GPA to see where you stand against Widener University Commonwealth Law School's admitted class and the grant range it actually publishes.
Widener University Commonwealth Law School reports a median grant of $25,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 95% of its students receive aid, and none of its aid reaches full tuition — every award covers part of the tuition. This school reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, and the median award is worth about 13 credit hours of tuition at its published rate of $1,875 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
Widener University Commonwealth Law School 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
Widener University Commonwealth Law School reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, so no three-year cost figure is estimated for it. Its published rate is $1,875 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.
Is Widener University Commonwealth Law School getting more competitive?
Applications to Widener University Commonwealth Law School rose from 668 for the 2022 entering class to 909 for 2025, while the class enrolled 155 students — so there were 5.9 applicants per place, against 4.9 in 2022. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 5 to 5.9, and competition for each place has tightened.
| Entering class | Applications | Offers | Enrolled | Applicants per place |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 668 | 402 | 137 | 4.9 |
| 2023 | 720 | 468 | 145 | 5 |
| 2024 | 776 | 516 | 160 | 4.8 |
| 2025 | 909 | 549 | 155 | 5.9 |
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 Widener University Commonwealth Law School compares to schools at the same level
These are the schools with the closest median LSAT to Widener University Commonwealth Law School'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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Widener University Commonwealth Law School (this school) | $25,000 | — | — | 95% | 5.9 | tightening | — |
| Roger Williams University | $28,000 | 0 pt | $140,418 | 65% | 5.4 | easing | 86.5% |
| Capital University Law School | $21,000 | 0 pt | $136,704 | 96% | 5 | tightening | 89.6% |
| Ohio Northern University | $17,250 | 0 pt | $119,412 excludes fees | 79% | 10.5 | tightening | — |
| Barry University | $16,000 | 0 pt | $177,474 | 79% | 6.2 | tightening | 41.5% |
| Faulkner University | $15,960 | 0 pt | $171,120 | 72% | 3.9 | level | — |
| Oklahoma City University | $14,000 | — | — | 77% | 4.6 | tightening | 66.7% |
| North Carolina Central University | $12,982 | 0 pt | $103,500 | 72% | 10 | level | — |
| Southern Illinois University | $9,500 | — | — | 64% | 5.6 | level | — |
| University of District of Columbia | $8,292 | 0 pt | $117,543 | 70% | 10.4 | level | 27.9% |
| Northern Illinois University | $8,274 | 0 pt | $115,605 | 78% | 7.3 | level | — |
| Texas Southern University | $7,363 | 0 pt | $124,377 | 51% | 9.8 | level | 32.5% |
| University of North Dakota | $3,875 | — | — | 52% | 4.1 | easing | 100.0% |
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
Widener University Commonwealth Law School is in . It admits 60.4% of applicants, and 95% 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
- Widener University Commonwealth Law School financial aid breakdown — coverage, award size, all four tiers and conditional outcomes
- Widener University Commonwealth Law School ABA 509 report — every figure from the disclosure, section by section
- Widener University Commonwealth Law School cost of attendance — three-year total cost, ranked against every school
- Widener University Commonwealth Law School 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 Widener University Commonwealth Law School give?
Widener University Commonwealth Law School reports a median grant of $25,000 per year for students receiving financial aid, and 95% of its students receive aid, and none of its aid reaches full tuition — every award covers part of the tuition. This school reports tuition per credit hour rather than an annual total, and the median award is worth about 13 credit hours of tuition at its published rate of $1,875 per credit hour.
What LSAT and GPA does Widener University Commonwealth Law School admit?
Widener University Commonwealth Law School admitted students with LSAT scores between 147 and 153, with a median of 150. Its 25th-percentile undergraduate GPA is 2.98 and its 75th-percentile GPA is 3.64, with a median of 3.33.
Does Widener University Commonwealth Law School reduce conditional scholarships?
Widener University Commonwealth Law School reports no conditional scholarships, or does not disclose how its conditional awards were reduced after review.
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 Widener University Commonwealth Law School keeping more conditional scholarships than before?
Widener University Commonwealth Law School does not report enough years of conditional scholarship data to show a trend.
Is Widener University Commonwealth Law School becoming more competitive?
Applications to Widener University Commonwealth Law School rose from 668 for the 2022 entering class to 909 for 2025, while the class enrolled 155 students — so there were 5.9 applicants per place, against 4.9 in 2022. Between 2023 and 2025 that figure moved from 5 to 5.9, and competition for each place has tightened.
Is Widener University Commonwealth Law School 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 Widener University Commonwealth Law School'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.