Drexel University

PA · Private · Mid-Atlantic

Acceptance rate: 30% (2,689 applicants)
Median LSAT: 160 (middle 50%: 154–162)
Median GPA: 3.76 (middle 50%: 3.35–3.87)
Tuition: $57,000 (per year)
Bar passage: 84.2% (+4.7 pts vs. state average)

Deadlines

3 year JD rolling: April 1, 2027
2 year summer start: Jan. 15, 2027

Essays

Personal statement (About 2 pages, double-spaced)

Applicants must submit a personal statement with their application that is approximately two double-spaced pages in length. What you choose to write about is entirely up to you. The personal statement is a chance for you to tell the Admissions Committee who you are, using your unique experiences, ideas, and qualifications as illustration. You may wish to use this opportunity to write about your career aspirations, academic interests, life experiences, family background, or talents.

Optional essay (No limit stated)

Tell us how your lived experience has been made more challenging or been enhanced by obstacles or circumstances you have encountered, and how that impact has informed your personal journey.

Academic or work history addendum (No limit stated)

You may include an explanation related to your academic or work history that is not otherwise described in the law school application.

Public Interest Scholarship addendum (1 page, double-spaced)

If you are interested in being considered for the Public Interest Law Scholarship Program, please attach an addendum addressing the following questions (maximum 1-page double-spaced): Please describe any public interest work you have done. Please describe any volunteering experience/public service work you have done. What type of pro bono work are you interested in doing in law school? State briefly your sense of relevancy of public interest work to society. What are your career goals?

Courtroom Scholarship addendum (1 page, double-spaced)

If you are interested in being considered for the Courtroom Scholarship Program, please attach an addendum addressing the following questions (Maximum 1-page double-spaced): In which years did you participate in college mock trial tournaments? List the college mock trial tournaments (name and year) at which you competed, including both invitational tournaments and AMTA (American Mock Trial Association) tournaments. Summarize the roles you performed at collegiate mock trial tournaments. List any tournaments (name and year) at which you won an attorney award. List any tournaments (name and year) at which you won a witness award. If you have a coach, what is her/his name and contact information? If not, can you provide the name and contact information of a coach familiar with your trial performance? How interested are you in participating in trial competitions in law school? Anything else we should know about your experience and interest in trial advocacy? Please provide a link to a YouTube video of yourself competing, if possible. A video of a speech or a cross examination is preferred, but any video will suffice.

Editor's notes

Aim for Nov. 15. Drexel guarantees a decision by Jan. 15 for any application complete by that date, and March 1 is the cutoff for guaranteed scholarship consideration. After April 1, the school won't promise to read your file at all.
Decide on the 2-year J.D. early. It starts in May and its deadline is Jan. 15, months before the 3-year program's dates, and the pace is up to 17 credits every semester with no summer off. The school says it suits people ready to focus fully on law school.
Choose your test carefully. If you have an LSAT, Drexel won't take a GRE application, and if you apply with the GRE and then sit for the LSAT, your file and scholarship get re-read on the LSAT alone.
Write about work you've done. Co-op, clinics and 50 hours of required pro bono are the center of a Drexel J.D., and the admissions policy says the committee weighs service, leadership and work history closely.