Texas A&M Law in Fort Worth offers a full-time, three-year JD. Its strengths include intellectual property, dispute resolution, and water and energy law, with clinics and externships providing practical work with clients and in dispute resolution.
This guide walks you through how to get into Texas A&M Law.
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1. Texas A&M Law Admissions Numbers and Statistics
Texas A&M Law Class of 2029:
- LSAT: 75th: 171 | Median: 170 | 25th: 162
- GPA: 75th: 4.00 | Median: 4.00 | 25th: 3.68
Texas A&M Law Class of 2028:
- LSAT: 75th: 170 | Median: 169 | 25th: 161
- GPA: 75th: 4.00 | Median: 4.00 | 25th: 3.67
From fall 2025 to fall 2026, the LSAT median increased by one point, while the GPA median remained at 4.00. Both LSAT quartiles also rose one point. The GPA upper quartile held at 4.00, while the lower quartile rose from 3.67 to 3.68. The fall 2025 class enrolled 128 students.
Aim to be at or above at least one median to be competitive. Above both puts you in a stronger position. Below both medians, this is a prayer, not a reach.
For context on how medians affect your strategy, see How to Build a Smart Law School List.
2. Texas A&M Law Application Essays
Personal Statement (required)
Texas A&M requires an open-ended personal statement. It invites information about your experiences, abilities, obstacles, and motivation that helps the committee understand you beyond your numbers.
For more on how to write a personal statement, see my Personal Statement Examples and Personal Statement Guide.
Test-Optional Contribution Statement
Applicants using the test-optional pathway described under Testing Policy below may submit a contribution statement as an optional supplement.
For more on how to write a diversity or perspective statement, see my Diversity Statement Examples and Diversity Statement Guide.
For more on making all of these essays work together, see my Cohesive Narrative Guide.
Addenda and Character & Fitness Resources
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3. Texas A&M Law Resume Requirements
Submit a descriptive resume covering education, employment, activities, honors, service, and relevant skills. Include military experience or professional credentials where applicable. Make responsibilities and progression clear rather than listing titles without context.
For more on preparing your resume, see my Resume Examples and Resume Guide.
4. Texas A&M Law Letters of Recommendation
Submit letters of recommendation through LSAC's Credential Assembly Service. Choose writers who can describe your analytical ability, work quality, and reliability through examples.
For more on recommendations, see my LOR Guide (Applicants) and LOR Guide (Writers).
5. Texas A&M Law Interview Process
The test-optional pathway offers a virtual interview as an optional supplement. Prepare to discuss your academic preparation, professional experiences, and reasons for pursuing law in direct, concrete terms. The general application checklist does not list an interview as a required component for every applicant.
6. Texas A&M Law Deadlines and Early Decision
Testing Policy
Texas A&M accepts the LSAT, GRE, and JD-Next. A reportable LSAT is considered even when you also submit another test.
Test-Optional: This pathway lets applicants apply without a reportable LSAT, GRE, or JD-Next score. A bachelor's degree is required before enrollment. Applicants must notify admissions if they register for one of those tests; taking it ends test-optional eligibility, rescinds prior admission or scholarship offers, and returns the application to the general pool.
Aggie Direct is a separate route without the LSAT or GRE for Texas A&M University-College Station students working toward their first bachelor's degree and graduates entering law school within 12 months of earning it. Applicants need an LSAC cumulative undergraduate GPA of at least 3.75 through six semesters and an SAT or ACT composite at or above the 85th percentile for the administration taken. A reportable LSAT or GRE score makes applicants ineligible.
If you're considering the GRE, read my LSAT vs. GRE guide before deciding.
Application Dates
The published fall 2027 schedule distinguishes complete-file priority dates from the final application deadline.
- Applications available: August 26, 2026.
- Regular priority rounds: December 7, 2026; February 7, March 7, and April 7, 2027.
- Corresponding decision targets: February 12, April 9, May 7, and June 11, 2027.
- Final application deadline: May 31, 2027; later completion does not carry those priority-round decision targets.
- Binding priority rounds: October 15 and November 15, 2026; January 15 and February 15, 2027.
- Binding decision targets: November 16 and December 15, 2026; February 15 and March 15, 2027.
Binding Admission
A binding admission requires withdrawing other applications and ending your law-school search. You may not maintain another binding application. Merit decisions begin in the early calendar year, so do not assume an early binding decision includes a scholarship offer. Do not trade away comparison shopping without understanding that distinction.
For a full breakdown of early decision strategy, see Should You Apply Early Decision to Law School?
7. Texas A&M Law Scholarships and Financial Aid
Cost of Attendance
For 2026–2027, published JD tuition and fees are $33,600 for Texas residents and $50,145 for nonresidents. The corresponding nine-month cost-of-attendance budgets are $63,464 and $81,089.
Merit Scholarships
All admitted JD applicants receive automatic merit-scholarship consideration. A qualifying nonresident scholarship recipient may also receive a Non-Resident Tuition Waiver, which makes the residency distinction especially important when comparing offers.
The 2025 ABA disclosure reports no scholarships conditioned on law-school performance beyond maintaining good academic standing. Review your own renewal terms and separate grant aid from loans and work-study. Binding applicants should resolve the timing of their financial commitment before giving up other options.
For more on scholarship strategy, see How to Negotiate Law School Scholarships.
8. Texas A&M Law Joint Degrees
Texas A&M offers two specialized graduate combinations:
- JD/MPH in Health Policy and Management: A four-year program with the School of Public Health, including public-health study in College Station.
- JD/Master of Maritime Business Administration and Logistics: A four-year combination with the Department of Maritime Business Administration at Texas A&M's Galveston campus.
Students must satisfy both programs' admission and degree requirements. The maritime combination is not a conventional general-management MBA. Its curriculum and campus sequence are designed around shipping, logistics, and the legal regulation of maritime business.
9. Texas A&M Law Employment Outcomes (Class of 2025)
Texas A&M Class of 2025 employment outcomes (reported to the ABA, measured 10 months after graduation):
- Full-time, long-term bar-passage-required employment (ABA): 95.2%
- BigLaw (firms with 101+ attorneys): 23.4%
- Federal clerkships: 8.1%
- Public service (including government): 23.4%
Texas was the dominant destination, accounting for 103 of 124 graduates. The federal-clerkship and public-service shares show that the outcome story extends beyond large firms. The 95.2% figure measures full-time, long-term bar-required work specifically.
10. Texas A&M Law Areas of Study and Specializations
Intellectual Property: The Center for Law and Intellectual Property connects scholarship in patents, copyright, and international intellectual property with practical training. Patent and trademark-related clinical work makes this a concrete option for applicants whose technical, creative, or business experience has raised questions about ownership and innovation.
Dispute Resolution: Aggie Dispute Resolution supports study of negotiation, mediation, and arbitration. The required ADR Survey and advanced skills courses make dispute resolution part of the training sequence, rather than an interest that depends entirely on finding one elective.
Energy and Environmental Law: The Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resource Systems Law Program connects these fields with water governance and resource management. Its clinic works on legal and policy problems for public bodies and nonprofit organizations, giving the area a practical institutional anchor.
Constitutional Structure: The Center on the Structural Constitution focuses on federalism, separation of powers, and the administrative state. Its programming connects constitutional scholarship with questions about which institutions exercise public authority, a useful distinction from treating constitutional law only as rights litigation.
Criminal Law: The Criminal Law, Justice, and Policy Program sits alongside the Criminal Defense Clinic and Innocence Project. Together they offer different perspectives on the system: defending current clients, examining convictions, and considering the rules and institutions that shape criminal justice.
11. Texas A&M Law Clinics and Experiential Learning
Clinics
The JD requires at least six experiential credits, including an approved clinic or externship involving actual clients or work as a third-party neutral.
- Entrepreneurship Law Clinic: Students help emerging businesses with formation, governance, contracts, and related legal needs, translating a founder's plans into workable documents.
- Criminal Defense Clinic: Students represent people charged in Tarrant County, developing case strategies, counseling clients, preparing filings, and participating in court proceedings.
- Immigrant Rights Clinic: Students undertake immigration representation and related advocacy, including removal defense, asylum matters, and work with survivors and children.
- Environmental and Natural Resource Systems Law Clinic: Students assist public entities and nonprofits with legal and policy issues involving water, land, and other resources.
- Community Development Clinic: Students handle transactional work involving nonprofit organizations, real estate, and affordable housing for underserved communities.
- Patent Clinic: Students help inventors research prior art, prepare patent applications, and respond to patent-office actions, with responsibilities shaped by technical qualifications.
- Civil Rights Clinic: Students combine litigation with community-centered strategies such as legislative advocacy, public communication, and organizational planning.
- Tax Dispute Resolution Clinic: Students help taxpayers with IRS disputes, including audits, collections, refund claims, and innocent-spouse issues, with litigation opportunities depending on the case.
Pro Bono and Experiential Learning
The Equal Justice Program requires 30 hours of pro bono service. Externships extend beyond Fort Worth to courts, government, and public-interest organizations, including opportunities in Austin and Washington, D.C. The Medical-Legal Partnership with Cook Children's Hospital provides another distinctive setting for connecting a family's legal needs with health care.
12. Texas A&M Law Notable Faculty and Journals
Faculty
- Peter K. Yu: University Distinguished Professor and Regents Professor of Law and Communication. He studies intellectual property and international trade and directs the Center for Law and Intellectual Property.
- Gabriel Eckstein: Professor of Law and director of the Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resource Systems Law Program and clinic. An international water-law scholar, he represented Bolivia in its International Court of Justice dispute with Chile.
- Jeff W. Slattery: Clinical Associate Professor and director of the Intellectual Property Clinic. His intellectual-property teaching draws on prior practice and experience as a performer; he received a Professor of the Year award at Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
- Bob Probasco: Founder and director of the Tax Dispute Resolution Clinic. His work centers on tax controversy and taxpayer representation. He is a fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel.
Journals
- Texas A&M Law Review: The general-interest flagship.
- Texas A&M Journal of Property Law: Scholarship addressing ownership, possession, and use of property.
13. Texas A&M Law Culture and Student Life
Fort Worth gives this full-time JD a different daily setting from Texas A&M's main undergraduate campus. The Class of 2029 includes students from 26 states and 65 undergraduate institutions, with an average age of 24. The Aggie connection does not mean every classmate arrives through the same undergraduate pipeline.
The Professionalism and Leadership Program, student organizations, and required service provide settings for building relationships beyond graded courses. The appeal is the combination of a major metropolitan legal market and a law-school community with shared professional obligations. Visit the law campus, not just College Station, when assessing fit.
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