Please write a personal statement, one to three pages in length, double-spaced, that gives us an opportunity to learn more about you. We are not looking for a narrative restatement of factual information presented elsewhere in your application, résumé, or academic transcripts. Instead, we are seeking to get a better sense of you as a person: your values, your strengths and special talents, your concerns about serious issues, your intellectual interests, your career aspirations, and decisions or experiences that impacted your life significantly. In short, we are interested in what drives you, and how that drive will define you as a law student and as a future member of the legal profession.

OPTIONAL ESSAY

Although admission to Brooklyn Law School is based primarily upon superior academic and professional achievement and potential to excel in the legal profession, the Admissions Committee also considers the diversity, broadly defined, of an entering class important to the school’s educational mission. If you would like the committee to consider how your background, life and work experiences, advanced studies, extracurricular activities, volunteer service, culture, socio-economic status, sex, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or other factors would contribute to the law school’s mission, you may describe these factors and their relevance in a separate essay. The law school's mission statement may be found here.

This section is optional.

If there is any additional information you wish to convey to the Committee on Admissions, you can attach a brief explanation here.

Attach résumé.

In addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every US jurisdiction. applicants are encouraged to determine the requirements for any jurisdiction in which they intend to seek admission by contacting the jurisdiction. Contact information for jurisdictions are available through the National Conference of Bar Examiners. An affirmative answer to any question in this section will not necessarily preclude or negatively impact your application.

1. Have you ever been convicted of any felony offense, or is any such charge now pending against you?

2. Have you ever been subjected to a dismissal, suspension, probation, or other disciplinary or academic sanction by any college, university, or professional school? If you answer yes, you must complete and submit the Dean's Certification Form (available in the Forms section).

3. Have you ever been subject to discipline by a professional organization?

4. As part of your Moral Character application to the bar, you may be required to disclose information about arrests. If you did not disclose them to the law school at the time of your application, your bar application may be delayed. You are not required to provide arrest information on your application to Brooklyn Law School. However, should you be admitted, please consider disclosing any arrests to the law school at that time. Please acknowledge that you have read and that you understand this.

Brooklyn Law School 2026 Application Instructions

Please find detailed instructions here.

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If you applied to our Early Decision Academic Excellence Program, then you must submit, at the time that you apply, the Early Decision Form located in the Forms section of our application.