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Updated for 2025-2026 application cycle

Instructions: Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law

Applicants are strongly encouraged to apply as early as possible, as space availability diminishes as the year progresses. Application deadlines can be found on our website here: https://drexel.edu/law/admissions/how-to-apply/. If you are applying for the Global Access JD Program, please return to the applications page and select the Global Access JD application.

To apply to Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law you must submit:

Application
Resume: Attach a resume describing any relevant experience, including your employment, volunteer, and leadership experience.
Personal statement: Applicants must submit a personal statement with their application that is approximately two double-spaced pages in length. What you choose to write about is entirely up to you. The personal statement is a chance for you to tell the Admissions Committee who you are, using your unique experiences, ideas, and qualifications as illustration. You may wish to use this opportunity to write about your career aspirations, academic interests, life experiences, family background, or talents.
Optional Essay: You may submit an optional essay that responds to the following prompt: Tell us how your lived experience has been made more challenging or been enhanced by obstacles or circumstances you have encountered, and how that impact has informed your personal journey.
Letters of Recommendation: Submit at least two letters of recommendation through the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Letters of recommendation should come from professors or employers of the applicant.
An LSAT or *GRE score.
Credential Assembly Service (CAS) report. Your CAS report will include your undergraduate academic summary, all academic transcripts from all schools, colleges, and universities attended after high school and LSAT score(s) if applicable.

*We will not accept a GRE score from an applicant who has taken the LSAT. If you take the LSAT after applying with a GRE score, your application and any potential scholarship will be reevaluated with the LSAT score.

International Students

International applicants are required to use LSAC's credential evaluation service to evaluate their foreign educational credentials.

For more information on I-20/DS-2019 and supporting financial documents please go here: http://drexel.edu/studentlife/get_involved/international_students_scholars/

ABA Standard 504

In addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every U.S. jurisdiction. Applicants are encouraged to determine the requirements for any jurisdiction in which they intend to seek admission by contacting the jurisdiction. Addresses for all relevant agencies are available through the National Conference of Bar Examiners.

This section is optional.

(Optional) The Courtroom Scholarship Program is limited to up to five students each admissions cycle. Decisions for this program are made by a faculty committee on a rolling basis.

The Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law features a unique commitment to trial advocacy. We offer a championship mock trial team, eight courses in trial advocacy and evidence, two full-time trial advocacy faculty and more than a dozen adjunct professors and coaches, and the Kline Institute of Trial Advocacy (a building in Center City devoted to courtroom excellence). That's why we have Courtroom Scholarships, which can be as large as a full scholarship, for outstanding undergraduate mock trial competitors who are admitted to Drexel Kline School of Law.

Courtroom Scholars will:

Be honored at a special event
Receive a personal trial lawyer mentor
Get selection priority for all Trial Advocacy Courses
Serve as scoring judges at annual Trial by Combat tournament

Only students who participate in American Mock Trial Association undergraduate competitions are eligible for Courtroom Scholarships. The Courtroom Scholarships will be awarded based on experience and success in undergraduate mock trial competitions and on academic achievement.

If you are interested in being considered for the Courtroom Scholarship Program, please attach an addendum addressing the following questions (Maximum 1-page double-spaced):

In which years did you participate in college mock trial tournaments?
List the college mock trial tournaments (name and year) at which you competed, including both invitational tournaments and AMTA (American Mock Trial Association) tournaments.
Summarize the roles you performed at collegiate mock trial tournaments. (Example: "I have competed as an attorney at seven tournaments, and I have delivered opening statements. I have also portrayed a witness at three tournaments. This year, I am the program vice president.")
List any tournaments (name and year) at which you won an attorney award.
List any tournaments (name and year) at which you won a witness award.
If you have a coach, what is her/his name and contact information? If not, can you provide the name and contact information of a coach familiar with your trial performance?
How interested are you in participating in trial competitions in law school?
Anything else we should know about your experience and interest in trial advocacy?
Please provide a link to a YouTube video of yourself competing, if possible. A video of a speech or a cross examination is preferred, but any video will suffice. Please contact the Director of Trial Advocacy, Phil Pasquarello, at pmp45@drexel.edu with any questions.

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