Career Exploration and Development

Statistics and Outcomes

Obies in Law School

  • Top three law schools attended by Oberlin graduates: Harvard, University of California- Berkeley, Georgetown
  • Law School admissions rate for graduating seniors for the past 5 years: 97%
  • Average number of law school acceptances by graduating seniors over the last five years: 4.6
Average LSAT Scores
Application Year Seniors Grads 1-3 years Grads > 3 years Overall
Application Year 2018-2019 Seniors 162.5 Grads 1-3 years 162.4 Grads > 3 years 162.1 Overall 162.0
Application Year 2017-2018 Seniors 155.4 Grads 1-3 years 161.1 Grads > 3 years 163.0 Overall 160.9
Application Year 2016-2017 Seniors 156.5 Grads 1-3 years 164.6 Grads > 3 years 160.7 Overall 161.5
Number of Applicants
Application Year Seniors Grads 1-3 years Grads > 3 years Total
Application Year 2018-2019 Seniors 8 Grads 1-3 years 26 Grads > 3 years 26 Total 60
Application Year 2017-2018 Seniors 12 Grads 1-3 years 20 Grads > 3 years 28 Total 60
Application Year 2016-2017 Seniors 6 Grads 1-3 years 12 Grads > 3 years 14 Total 32
Admitted to One or More Law Schools
Application Year Seniors Grads 1-3 Grads > 3 Total
Application Year 2018-2019 Seniors 8 Grads 1-3 20 Grads > 3 22 Total 50
Application Year 2017-2018 Seniors 12 Grads 1-3 17 Grads > 3 22 Total 51
Application Year 2016-2017 Seniors 5 Grads 1-3 12 Grads > 3 13 Total 30

Oberlin graduates were admitted to the following law schools in 2018-2019. Schools in bold are the schools Oberlin graduates chose to attend.

  • The American University Washington College of Law
  • Arizona State University
  • Benjamin Cardozo School of Law
  • Boston College Law School
  • Boston University School of Law
  • Brooklyn Law School
  • UC Berkeley School of Law
  • UC Davis School of Law
  • UC Hastings College of the Law
  • UC Irvine School of Law
  • UC Los Angeles 
  • Case Western Reserve University School of Law
  • The University of Chicago Law School
  • Chicago-Kent College of Law
  • University of Cincinnati College of Law
  • City Univ of New York School of Law
  • Cleveland St U-Cleveland Marshall
  • University of Colorado Law School
  • Columbia University School of Law
  • University of Connecticut School of Law
  • Cornell Law School
  • University of Denver Sturm College of Law
  • Depaul University College of Law
  • Drexel Univ Thomas R. Kline School of Law
  • Duke University School of Law
  • Emory University School of Law
  • Fordham University School of Law
  • George Mason University, Antonin Scalia Law School
  • George Washington University Law School
  • Georgetown University Law Center
  • Harvard Law School
  • University of Illinois College of Law
  • University of Iowa College of Law
  • UIC John Marshall Law School
  • Lewis and Clark Law School
  • Loyola Law School-Loyola Marymount University
  • Loyola University Chicago School of Law
  • University of Maine School of Law
  • U of MD Francis King Carey School of Law
  • The University of Michigan Law School
  • Michigan State University College of Law
  • University of Minnesota Law School
  • Mitchell Hamline School of Law
  • New England Law- Boston
  • New York Law School
  • New York University School of Law
  • University of North Carolina
  • Northeastern University School of Law
  • The Ohio State University
  • University of Oregon School of Law
  • University of Pennsylvania Law School
  • Penn State University, Dickinson Law
  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law
  • University of Richmond School of Law
  • Rutgers Law School
  • SMU Dedman School of Law
  • University of Southern California Law School
  • Stanford University Law School
  • Suffolk University Law School
  • Syracuse University College of Law
  • Temple University
  • The University of Texas Law School
  • Tulane University Law School
  • Vanderbilt Law School
  • Vermont Law School
  • Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law
  • University of Virginia School of Law
  • Wake Forest University School of Law
  • University of Washington School of Law
  • Vanderbilt Law School
  • Washington and Lee University
  • Washington University School of Law
  • William and Mary Law School