University Of Toronto Law School Acceptance Rate

Application and admissions criteria for 16 Canadian law schools including: regular applicant profile and enrolment, strengths and special programs, tuition, and expenses.

* The cost of tuition for McGill University is based on the students residency. Quebec and International resident tuitions are listed on the McGill University profile. ** The law school application fee for this school is $100 plus the OLSAS Application service fee of $200 *** Average is the Median CGPA (E) refers to the English LL.B program offered at the University of Ottawa (F) refers to the French LL.B program offered at the University of Ottawa

Regular Application and Admissions Criteria

The admission committee assesses applicants based on the combination of LSAT score and Grade Point Average (GPA). LSATs written in June will not be considered for positions in the class starting in September of that year. Will only accept LSAT scores within the last five years.

Current Applicant Profile

Strengths and Special Programs

Regular Application and Admissions Criteria

Regular Application and Admissions Criteria McGill University uses a transsystemic approach to accepting students into the law program. The LSAT is not required but will be considered if written.

Current Applicant Profile

Strengths and Special Programs

Regular Application and Admissions Criteria The admission committee assesses applicants based primarily on the combination of LSAT score and Grade Point Average (GPA). Applicants applying to Ontario law schools must submit their applications to the OLSAS. LSATs must have been written in the past five years.

Current Applicant Profile

Strengths and Special Programs

Regular Application and Admissions Criteria

Current Applicant Profile

Strengths and Special Programs

university of toronto law school acceptance rate

The Faculty of Law has high admission criteria with an acceptance rate of 13.5% and a yield rate of 70.1%. The Faculty features a 98% yield rate in the province of Ontario, representing about half of the country of Canada’s English-language common-law population.

History[edit]

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law was established as a teaching faculty in 1887 pursuant to the University Federation Act,[11] which was proclaimed into force in 1889.[12] An earlier faculty of law had existed at Kings College between 1843 and 1854, but was abolished by an Act of Parliament in 1853.[12]

The Faculty of Law was officially opened in 1889, with two part-time professors appointed at its inauguration – William Proudfoot and David Mills.[13] The Faculty awarded LL.B. degrees to graduates of its program. However, the Law Society of Upper Canada at the time refused to accept the University of Toronto Faculty of Law as an accredited law school, preferring instead to maintain control over the profession by establishing its own school, the Osgoode Hall Law School.[13] Thus, students who graduated from the Faculty were still required to complete a full three-year articling term and complete courses at Osgoode Hall in order to join the legal profession. As a result, the Facultys enrollment numbers in the early years were relatively low.[13]

It was not until 1949 that the Faculty adopted its current form. In the 1940s, the Faculty played the leading role in making legal education in Ontario into a modern academic degree course, rather than an apprenticeship.

Despite the Faculty of Laws academic program, the Law Society of Upper Canada refused to recognize it as a degree-granting institution for the purposes of accreditation. In the early 1950s, law students and their supporters petitioned the Law Society, and in 1953, a group of 50 student protesters marched on Osgoode Hall demanding formal recognition for the Faculty of Law. Finally, in 1958, after years of negotiation and discord, the Law Society began to give credit to graduates of the law school seeking admission to the Ontario bar.[14]

Reputation and admissions[edit]

The Faculty of Law has high admission criteria with an acceptance rate of 13.5% and a yield rate of 70.1%.[20] The Faculty features a 98% yield rate in the province of Ontario, representing about half of the country of Canadas English-language common-law population.[21] The median undergraduate GPA of students accepted into the J.D. program is 3.88, and the median Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score is 168.[22]

Location and buildings[edit] Falconer Hall Flavelle House

The Faculty of Law lies at the geographic centre of the University of Toronto in the downtown Toronto area. It is located at the corner of Queens Park Crescent and Hoskin Avenue, south of the Royal Ontario Museum and slightly north of the Legislative Assembly of Ontario.

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Official Guide to Canadian JD Programs 78 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5, Canada

The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto offers unparalleled opportunities for the study of law. The Faculty is committed to creating a genuine intellectual community in which each of its members—students and professors alike—work closely in developing a deep, critical understanding of the strengths and limitations of law and legal institutions.

Our students are highly educated, extremely diverse, and deeply committed to justice at home and around the world. Academically, they are the strongest student body in the country and are among the top in North America. Students come to our law school with an extraordinary mix of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds and experiences; intellectual interests; and political commitments.

The relatively small size of our student body, combined with its diversity, affords distinctive opportunities for the exchange of ideas among students and faculty, and fosters a sense of community at the law school.

UOFT Law School Admissions

The University of Toronto Faculty of Law (U of T Law, UToronto Law) is the law school of the University of Toronto. The Faculty’s admissions process is the most selective of law schools in Canada and is one of the most selective in North America. The Faculty has consistently been ranked as the top law school in Canada by Maclean‘s since it began to publish law school rankings. The Faculty offers the JD, LLM, SJD, MSL, and GPLLM degrees in law.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Toronto offers unparalleled opportunities for the study of law. The Faculty is committed to creating a genuine intellectual community in which each of its members—students and professors alike—work closely in developing a deep, critical understanding of the strengths and limitations of law and legal institutions. Our students are highly educated, extremely diverse, and deeply committed to justice at home and around the world. Academically, they are the strongest student body in the country and are among the top in North America.

Students come to our law school with an extraordinary mix of racial, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds and experiences; intellectual interests; and political commitments. The relatively small size of our student body, combined with its diversity, affords distinctive opportunities for the exchange of ideas among students and faculty, and fosters a sense of community at the law school.

University of Alberta

Law Centre, 111-89 Ave. NW, Room 128 Edmonton, AB T6G 2H5 Telephone: (780) 492-3122 Fax: (780) 492-4924www.lawschool.ualberta.ca | Email: [email protected]

Regular Application and Admissions Criteria

The admission committee assesses applicants based on a combination of LSAT score and Grade Point Average (GPA). LSATs must have been written in the last 5 years.

Regular Applicant Profile and Enrolment

The following table summarizes the applicant profile for the University of Alberta’s Faculty of Law program:

The above table was obtained from the University of Alberta Faculty of Law.

Strengths and Special Programs