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
  • Final proofread
• 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!

Download a Word version of the checklist here. You’ll find an interactive checklist here.