University of Puerto Rico School of Law - Admissions

Admissions

Each incoming class at the Law School has 215 students. Of those, the top two hundred (93%) are automatically selected on the basis of a numerical ranking of academic excellence which gives equal weight to the three basic criteria for admission: (1) the undergraduate GPA, as computed by the Law School Data Assembly Service (an information collection service offered by the Law School Admission Council); (2) the LSAT score; and (3) the score of either the Graduate Record Examination or its Spanish language equivalent, the EXADEP (which, like the GRE, is offered by the Educational Testing Service).

The remaining 15 spaces (7%) are selected by the Admissions Committee from among those applicants who are in positions 201 to 260 of the aforementioned ranking of academic excellence. The Committee makes a full assessment of the applicant's file, considering the essay and presented academic work, and gives weight to such criteria as economic disadvantage, academic achievement, graduate studies, trends in academic progress, publications, and extracurricular activities, to reach a conclusion about the applicant's aptitude for the study of law. Another 15 students in this group are placed on a waiting list.