Temple University

PA · Public · Mid-Atlantic

Acceptance rate: 24% (3,043 applicants)
Median LSAT: 165 (middle 50%: 162–168)
Median GPA: 3.76 (middle 50%: 3.59–3.90)
Tuition: $48,996 (per year, nonresident)
Bar passage: 89.0% (+9.2 pts vs. state average)

Deadlines

Rolling review: March 1, 2027

Essays

Personal statement (No set length (average 2 to 3 pages))

All applicants are required to submit a personal statement with the application. It is up to you to decide what you want to write about and how you want to express your thoughts. This is your opportunity to present yourself, your background, your experiences, and your ideas to the Admissions Committee. You may want to write about your intellectual interests, your career goals, your achievements, your family background, or your involvement in your community.

Sp.A.C.E. statement (No page limit (about 2 to 3 pages double-spaced recommended))

We invite all applicants to share with us your personal history, highlighting for the committee how your unique life experience has been enriched or made more difficult by opportunities, circumstances, and obstacles. This information will assist the Admissions Committee in fully evaluating your candidacy.

Test score or character and fitness addendum

If you have taken the LSAT or GRE more than once, and if there is a large disparity between your scores, we recommend that you address the disparity in a separate statement to be included with your application.

Editor's notes

Finish your file by mid-January. Temple's own instructions say complete files before Jan. 15 may have a better chance if you're competitive, even though the deadline is March 1, 2027. Rolling review means seats and scholarship money get committed as the season goes on.
Treat the Sp.A.C.E. statement as part of the application. Temple built its whole review process around it and recommends that everyone write one. Since there's no interview, your two statements are the only way the committee hears from you directly.
Temple is unusually clear about what it values: service, work during college, leadership, recent immigrant families, overcoming adversity, and career achievement. If any of these is true of you, give it real space in your statements and résumé. The résumé instructions tell you to include all work history, so don't trim jobs that seem unrelated to law.
If you're weighing day versus evening, know that the standards and faculty are the same and that you state your preference in the application. The fall 2026 class had 30 evening students out of 255.