UC Law San Francisco

CA · Public · Pacific

Acceptance rate: 27% (4,593 applicants)
Median LSAT: 161 (middle 50%: 158–163)
Median GPA: 3.71 (middle 50%: 3.55–3.83)
Tuition: $61,773 (per year, nonresident)
Bar passage: 86.2% (+3.5 pts vs. state average)

Deadlines

Application deadline: April 15, 2027

Essays

Personal statement (No limit; 2 to 4 pages recommended)

There is no limit as to the length of the required personal statement, but it will be evaluated for clarity, content, and skill of presentation. While there is no required topic, it is to your advantage to convey information and views that you feel are important and that you believe should be weighed in the consideration of your application for admission, including your specific interest in UC Law SF.

Diversity statement (No stated limit)

UC Law SF accepts diversity statements from applicants, in addition to the Personal Statement. Diversity statements are not required and applicants who do not submit a diversity statement are not disadvantaged by choosing not to submit one.

LEOP supplement (No set length; 50 to 250 words, or two to four paragraphs, per question typically enough)

Describe the financial situation of your family from birth to college entry. Please include sources of income, income estimates, number of household wage earners, and number of dependents. Please describe any unusual expenses. (One of nine LEOP supplement questions, which also cover the education and occupations of the people who raised you, early schooling, sources of college support, test preparation, your home community and any bias you faced, immigration, English as a second language, and disabilities.)

LEOP statement (No stated limit)

LEOP applicants are strongly encouraged to submit an additional personal statement in which they identify and describe in detail the challenges and obstacles that they have faced and the impact these challenges may have had on their academic preparation. Applicants should include specific information on what they have done to meet and/or overcome these challenges.

Editor's notes

Apply in the fall even though the deadline is April 15. UC Law SF reviews files on a rolling basis from October and sends decisions from December, and there's no early decision to hold a seat for you.
Read the scholarship terms before you accept. The school says some awards require a 2.7 GPA to renew and that roughly one in ten 1Ls lands below that line, and merit recipients can't also get need-based grants.
If adversity shaped your record, apply through LEOP. It adds weight to non-numeric factors, 58 students entered through it this fall, and an applicant found ineligible still gets the standard review.
Use the personal statement to show why this school, even though no prompt asks. There are no formal interviews, and the school suggests treating the personal statement as the interview you won't get. That makes it your only chance to show you've looked closely.