UC-Irvine announced yesterday that its inaugural 1L class is the most selective in the country and the entering qualifications of the class place in squarely in the Top 20:
The University of California, Irvine School of Law has chosen its inaugural class by accepting only 4% of its applicants, making it the most selective of any law school in the nation.
UC Irvine accepted only 110 of a total of 2,741 applicants to fill its 68 first-year positions, for an acceptance rate of 4%. By comparison, Yale Law School at 7%, and Stanford Law School at 9%, are the only other law schools with single-digit acceptance rates, according to the most recent data available from the American Bar Association (2007).
UC Irvine received more than 40 applications for each of its positions in its first class, which is also a first among law schools by a wide margin. The most competitive law schools typically receive around 20 to 30 applications per slot, according to ABA data. …
The law school's high selectivity allowed it to field a class mirroring that of top law schools. The incoming class will have a median grade point average of 3.65 and a median LSAT score of 167. That puts it on par with law schools rated in the top 20 in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. … UC Irvine School of Law's inaugural class of 68 is 56% female and 44% male, 37% students of color.
The inaugural class will receive free tuition for all three years. In contrast, the public law schools at UC-Berkeley and UCLA charge $31,103 tuition for California residents.
Danny Sokol (Florida) asks: where should the UC Irvine Law Review rank in the pecking order for faculty in deciding where to publish their articles?
