Law School Admissions Checklist
Send transcripts and LORs to LSAC’s Credential Assembly Service:
- Transcripts
- A minimum of two LORs, with one academic LOR if possible
Plan your attack:
- Create a school list with about three reach, target, and safety schools, respectively.
- Decide if you’ll apply early decision.
Write your essays and other documents:
- Personal statement
- Résumé
- Final proofread
- Diversity statement, if applicable
- Final proofread
- Character and fitness addendum, if applicable
- Final proofread
- Gap in employment addendum, if applicable
- Final proofread
- LSAT or GPA addendum, if applicable
- Final proofread
Fill out the application and double-check everything:
[School 1] (copy for each school)
- Fill out the application.
- Review the application preview. Make sure you…
- Follow the instructions for the personal statement, including length limits.
- Attach the correct version of your personal statement, and not an essay addressed to the wrong school.
- Accept all tracked changes in your documents.
- Follow instructions for the résumé, listing hours for each job or specifying whether it was part-time or full-time if necessary.
- Format your essays consistently.
- Add headers that show your name and LSAC number. (Your résumé doesn’t need a header with your LSAC number.)
- Answer the character and fitness questions correctly.
- Attach all necessary addenda.
- Submit!
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