Admission Policy

Beginning Students

Applications for fall term admission (the first-year class) will be accepted beginning October 1 of each year. Your admission file must be postmarked by March 15. New students to the College of Law are only accepted in the fall term. To complete your admission file, you must comply with the following requirements:

Application [Required]

Complete the online application form and submit with the $50.00 application fee, paid by credit card or via our on-line check payment system. You may also download an application  and print. After completing the application, mail the application and a check or money order for $50.00. Include your Social Security number on the check

Personal Statement [Required]

Submit a typewritten personal statement with your application in support of your admission. This is your opportunity to add anything you wish to say about yourself, your abilities and your interests.

LSAT ( Law School Admissions Test) [Required]

The LSAT is administered by the Law School Admission Council four times each year at numerous places throughout the United States as well as in foreign countries. For information and an application form, contact the Law School Admission Council. - LSAC on the web.

LSDAS ( Law School Data Assembly Service) [Required]

Register with LSDAS – Law School Data Assembly Service, administered by the Law School Admission Council. Transcripts of all undergraduate and graduate work, letters of recommendation must be sent directly to the LSAC. The LSDAS report includes analysis of all undergraduate college work, copies of all transcripts and the official LSAT score report (your LSAT score must not be more than three years old). Applicants with foreign undergraduate credentials are required to submit their transcript(s) for evaluation by the LSAC.

Letters of Recommendation [Required]

The College of Law requires the submission of two letters of recommendation. The letters should be from recent college professors and/or employers who can attest to your ability to enter a competitive professional program. Your letters must be submitted through the LSAC. Your letters will be copied and sent to us along with your LSDAS report, or as received by the Law School Admission Council. Although you are not restricted to two letters, your file will be considered complete when two letters have been received.

International Applicants

International applicants should understand that special grading standards do not exist in the College of Law . Applicants whose native language is not English are recommended to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) to demonstrate a satisfactory level of proficiency in the use of the English language. For information and appropriate application forms, applicants should contact TOEFL, P.O. Box 899 , Princeton , NJ 08541 U.S.A .

International applicants must meet all application requirements, including the achievement of a satisfactory score on the LSAT. International applicants who attended and graduated from a college or university in another country are required to have their credentials evaluated. All foreign transcripts sent to LSAC are processed through the JD Credential Assembly Service (JD CAS), an extension of the LSDAS for foreign-educated applicants. There is no additional fee for the JD CAS; it is included in the standard LSDAS fee.

Foreign transcripts received through JD CAS will be sent to the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) where the transcripts will be authenticated and analyzed. The data will be assembled into a foreign credential evaluation document that contains AACRAO's summary, copies of the transcripts (and translations, as necessary), and a TOEFL score, if applicable. You must advise Educational Testing Service (ETS) to send your TOEFL score to LSAC (institution code number 0058).

This foreign credential evaluation and its associated documents will be incorporated into the regular LSDAS report in both paper and electronic versions. Upon submission of a matriculation decision, the “original” foreign transcript(s) received by LSAC will be forwarded to the law school.

You will be required to list all domestic and foreign undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools attended during the registration process. If you are not applying to any JD CAS–requiring law schools, you need not have your foreign transcripts sent to LSAC. If you are applying to one or more JD CAS–requiring law schools, and you completed any amount of postsecondary work (it could be one course, a full semester, a year, or your complete academic record) outside the US/US territories or Canada, you must use this service for the evaluation of your foreign transcripts. The one exception to this requirement is if you completed the foreign work through a study-abroad, consortium, or exchange program sponsored by a US or Canadian institution, and the work is clearly indicated as such on the home campus transcript.

Personal Interviews

Personal interviews are not a part of the application process. The Admissions staff will try to help you with our admission process. You should note however, that counselors have no authority to make admission decisions. You should not construe any of their statements as promises or contracts binding the College of Law.