New York Law School: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about New York

New York received 4,114 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 1,632 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 39.7%. 405 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 24.8%. Counting deferred admits and part-time entrants, the first-year class came to 409 students: 356 full time and 53 part time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 1,107.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 157, with a 25th percentile of 154 and a 75th of 160. That is 2 points below the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 109 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.41 at the 25th percentile, 3.63 at the median and 3.78 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $71,052 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $2,472. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $23,759. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $97,283 for one year, or $291,849 across three, before any grant. 900 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 85% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $40,000. 2 awards cover full tuition or more. The school reports conditional scholarships: 126 entering students held one and 68 had it reduced or eliminated.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 276 of 337 passed, a rate of 81.90%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 84.68%, so the school ran 2.78 points behind the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 234 of 313 graduates (74.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 38 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (12.1% of the class), of whom 34 went to firms of 501 or more. 3 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was New York with 229 graduates, followed by New Jersey with 25.

New York has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1954. It is a private school based in New York, NY. 24 first-year students left for academic reasons, 6.0% of the class.

The full 509 record

New York has 15 ABA-approved law schools. The New York 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 New York 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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