Washington and Lee University

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

Total number of full- and part-time applicants

2,561

Total number of full- and part-time acceptances

853

Overall acceptance rate

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

25th-75th percentile GPA scores for all students

25th-75th percentile LSAT scores for all students

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

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%

Total graduates

255

Graduates employed at graduation

94.1%

Graduates known to be employed nine months after graduation

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

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%

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 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.

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%