School of Law
1 Brookings Drive, Box 1120 St. Louis, MO 63130
Admissions Phone: (314) 935-4525
Admissions Email: admiss@wulaw.wustl.edu
Web site: http://www.law.wustl.edu/
Admissions URL: https://www.law.wustl.edu/Admissions/wuforms
1 Brookings Drive, Box 1120 St. Louis, MO 63130
Admissions Phone: (314) 935-4525
Admissions Email: admiss@wulaw.wustl.edu
Web site: http://www.law.wustl.edu/
Admissions URL: https://www.law.wustl.edu/Admissions/wuforms
Admissions Information
Fall 2010 Admissions Information
Director of admissions
Andrea Hilton Howe
Application deadline
02/01
Full-time program application fee
$50
Part-time program application fee
N/A
Besides the fall semester, can enter in
N/A
Fall 2008 Admissions and Enrollment Statistics
Total number of full- and part-time applicants
2,561
Total number of full- and part-time acceptances
853
Overall acceptance rate
33.3%
Total number of full- and part-time first-year students enrolled
128
Number of full-time program applicants
2,561
Number of full-time program acceptances
853
Full-time acceptance rate
33.3%
Number of first-year full-time students enrolled
128
Number of part-time program applicants
N/A
Number of part-time program acceptances
N/A
Part-time acceptance rate
N/A
Number of first-year part-time students enrolled
N/A
Fall 2008 GPA and LSAT Scores
25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students
3.27-3.7
25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students
160-166
25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for full-time students
3.27-3.7
25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for full-time students
160-166
25th-75th percentile undergraduate GPA for part-time students
N/A
25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for part-time students
N/A
Career Information
Bar Statistics (Winter and Summer 2007 administrations)
State where the greatest number of first-time test takers took the bar
MO
School’s bar passage rate for first-time test takers
98.5%
Statewide bar passage rate for first-time test takers
89.5%
Class of 2007 Graduates
Total graduates
255
Graduates employed at graduation
94.1%
Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation
99.7%
Starting Salaries of 2007 Graduates Employed Full-time
25th percentile private sector starting salary
$85,000
Median private sector starting salary
$120,000
75th percentile private sector starting salary
$150,000
Percent in the private sector who reported salary information
85%
Median public service starting salary
$47,000
Areas of Legal Practice (Class of 2007)
Percent employed in academia
2.0%
Percent employed in business and industry
9.0%
Percent employed in government
13.0%
Percent employed in all judicial clerkships
7.0%
Percent employed in law firms
62.0%
Percent employed in public interest
4.0%
Percent employed in an unknown field
3.0%
Percent employed in a judicial clerkship by an Article III federal judge
5.0%
2007 Graduates Employment Location
Graduates employed in-state
26%
Graduates employed in foreign countries
2%
Number of states where graduates are employed
30
New England (CT, ME, MA, NH, RI, VT)
4.0%
Middle Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA)
13.0%
East North Central (IL, IN, MI, OH, WI)
17.0%
West North Central (IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD)
28.0%
South Atlantic (DE, DC, FL, GA, MD, NC, SC, VA, WV)
13.5%
East South Central (AL, KY, MS, TN)
2.5%
West South Central (AR, LA, OK, TX)
4.0%
Pacific (AK, CA, HI, OR, WA)
8.0%
Mountain (AZ, CO, ID, MT, NV, NM, UT, WY)
2.0%
Employment location unknown
6.0%
Career Services
Career services operations: The Career Services Office provides a range of individualized counseling and programming resources. Employment opportunities are generated from on- and off-campus recruitment programs and direct-send job listings, as well as four regional job fairs hosted in Boston, New York, Atlanta, Los Angeles. Please visit our website at http://law.wustl.edu/career_services/ for more information.
Job Type
Bar admission required or anticipated (e.g., attorney and corporate counsel positions, law clerks, judicial clerks)
91.0%
J.D. preferred, law degree enhances position (e.g., corporate contracts administrator, alternative dispute resolution specialist, government regulatory analyst, FBI special agent)
4.0%
Professional/other (jobs that require professional skills or training but for which a J.D. is neither preferred nor particularly applicable; e.g., accountant, teacher, business manager, nurse)
2.0%
Nonprofessional/other (job that does not require any professional skills or training or is taken on a temporary basis and not viewed as part of a career path)
0.0%