George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about George Mason University, Antonin Scalia

George Mason University, Antonin Scalia received 2,792 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 443 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 15.9%. 159 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 35.9%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 159 students: 132 full time and 27 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 438.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 169, with a 25th percentile of 162 and a 75th of 171. That is 10 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 23 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.55 at the 25th percentile, 3.93 at the median and 3.98 at the 75th. 4 of the entering class were admitted on a GRE score rather than an LSAT score.

Full-time tuition is $24,864 for residents and $40,978 for non-residents, a gap of $16,114 a year. Mandatory fees add $2,968. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $38,342. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $82,288 for one year, or $246,864 across three, before any grant. 365 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 84% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $21,000. 26 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 202 of 235 passed, a rate of 85.96%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.68%, so the school ran 5.28 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 136 of 167 graduates (81.4%) held a job requiring bar admission. 23 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (13.8% of the class), of whom 18 went to firms of 501 or more. 13 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Virginia with 64 graduates, followed by District Of Columbia with 52.

George Mason University, Antonin Scalia has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1980. It is a public school based in Arlington, VA. 3 first-year students left for academic reasons, 3.0% of the class. 26 students transferred in from other law schools.

The full 509 record

Virginia has 8 ABA-approved law schools. The Virginia guide compares them on LSAT median, cost and bar passage, and covers the state's admission rules.

Data: ABA Standard 509 Information Report (2025), published for consumer disclosure, retrieved from the ABA Required Disclosures portal on 2026-09-01. Bar passage and employment figures come from the same portal's Bar Passage Outcomes and Employment Summary reports for the class of 2024. Figures describe the 2025 to 2026 reporting cycle for George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School and are restated in our own structure; no ABA document or file is reproduced here. Verify anything decision-critical with the school.

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