Over the past few years, approximately 30-40 students/alumni from Carleton have applied to law school each year. Due to recent trends in law school nationally, more students are choosing to wait a year or more to pursue law school, resulting in only about 15-20% of law school-bound Carls applying immediately following the undergraduate degree.

In the most recent five-year period, an average of 89% of applicants (current students and recent alumni) were accepted to law school. These rates are well above recent national average acceptance rates of about 76%.

Below are the schools where Carleton students have been admitted and chosen to attend in the past 5 years (as of 2016):

Schools in bold are where Carls have chosen to attend.

American University Washington College of Law
Boston College Law School
Boston University School of Law
Brooklyn Law School
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law
Cleveland State U, Cleveland- Marshall College of Law
Columbia University School of Law
Cornell Law School
DePaul University College of Law
Duke University School of Law
Emory University School of Law
Fordham University School of Law
George Washington University Law School
Georgetown University Law Center
Georgia State University College of Law
Harvard Law School
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
John Marshall Law School
Lewis & Clark Law School
Louisiana State University
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
New York University School of Law
Northeastern University School of Law
Northwestern University School of Law
Pennsylvania State University – Dickinson Law  
Rutgers University School of Law – Newark
Saint Louis University School of Law
Stanford University Law School
Suffolk University Law School  
Tulane University Law School
University of Alabama School of Law
University of California, Berkeley – School of Law
University of California, Davis – School of Law

University of California, Hastings – College of the Law
University of California, Irvine – School of Law
University of California, Los Angeles – School of Law
University of Chicago Law School
University of Colorado Law School
University of Georgia School of Law
University of Illinois College of Law
University of Iowa College of Law
University of Maine School of Law
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
University of Michigan Law School
University of Minnesota Law School
University of New Hampshire School of Law
University of North Carolina School of Law
University of Oregon School of Law
University of Pennsylvania Law School
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
University of Southern California Law School
University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis  
University of Texas, Austin – School of Law
University of Virginia School of Law
University of Washington School of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
University of Wyoming College of Law
Valparaiso University Law School
Vanderbilt Law School
Vermont Law School
Washington & Lee University School of Law
Washington University School of Law
Widener University School of Law
William & Mary Law School  
Yale Law School