Washington and Lee University School of Law: admission requirements and 509 data

What the 2025 numbers say about Washington and Lee University

Washington and Lee University received 2,341 completed applications for the 2025 entering class and made 532 offers of admission, an acceptance rate of 22.7%. 128 of those admitted enrolled, a yield of 24.1%. The full first-year class came to 131 students, all full time. Total JD enrollment across all years is 369.

Enrolled students posted a median LSAT of 167, with a 25th percentile of 161 and a 75th of 168. That is 8 points above the 159 median across the 196 ABA-approved schools in this data. It ranks 34 of 196 on LSAT median. Undergraduate GPA ran 3.51 at the 25th percentile, 3.75 at the median and 3.85 at the 75th.

Full-time tuition is $57,450 a year at a single rate for residents and non-residents. Mandatory fees add $2,490. The school's own living-expense estimate for a single student off campus is $21,890. Tuition, fees and that living estimate add up to $81,830 for one year, or $245,490 across three, before any grant. 342 JD students hold a grant or scholarship, 97% of the student body, and the median full-time award is $33,500. 4 awards cover full tuition or more.

Of the graduating class that sat a bar exam for the first time, 126 of 141 passed, a rate of 89.36%. The weighted average across the jurisdictions where those graduates sat was 80.09%, so the school ran 9.27 points ahead of the jurisdictions it feeds. Ten months after graduation, 101 of 110 graduates (91.8%) held a job requiring bar admission. 39 joined law firms of 251 lawyers or more (35.5% of the class), of whom 35 went to firms of 501 or more. 10 took federal clerkships. The largest single destination was Virginia with 24 graduates, followed by New York with 17.

Washington and Lee University has been approved by the Council of the ABA Section of Legal Education since 1923. It is a private school based in Lexington, VA. 1 first-year students left for academic reasons, 1.0% of the class. 1 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 Washington and Lee University School of Law 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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