![]() ![]() Most schools will email you a link to an online status checker, and someone on the school’s administrative staff usually updates your status checker when the school receives your application.Īfter that, the application goes into the black box of the school’s admission process. Your application goes into a system called the ACES database, where schools can access it electronically. In other words, the e-app includes everything you fill out or upload on a school-by-school basis the CAS report includes everything that LSAC warehouses for you. Your CAS report consists of your LSAT score report, academic summary, transcripts, recommendations, and some other information. At the same time, they’ll submit your CAS report if it’s complete. First, they transmit your e-app, which consists of everything you just saw in the PDF preview: your personal information, answers to all other questions (such as character and fitness questions), and your attachments (personal statement, résumé, etc.). What happens after you submit?Īfter you submit your application, LSAC transmits two packets. Note that the preview shows you what admissions officers will actually see when they review your application: a long-scrolling PDF. How to download the PDF preview of your application Answer the character and fitness questions correctly.Follow instructions for the résumé, listing hours for each job or specifying whether it was part-time or full-time if necessary.Attach the correct version of your personal statement, and not an essay addressed to the wrong school.Follow the instructions for the personal statement, including length limits.Haven’t made any typos in your responses to short-answer questions.Accept all tracked changes on your documents before you upload Word files, or upload PDFs. ![]() Format your documents consistently, with your name and LSAC number in the header.Slow down, and make sure your application checks all the right boxes. But if you act rashly, you can mess up all those months of hard work. You’ve worked on your applications for months, and you want to send them in right now so you can beat the latest wave of submitters and hear back sooner. Using those few days to check for mistakes will have a gigantic impact. Waiting a few extra days before you submit will have no impact on your chances of admission. Every year, people send customized essays to the wrong schools, misspell the names of deans or professors, check the wrong box in response to character and fitness questions, and make numerous other errors. It’s also critical that you turn in a squeaky-clean application, one that follows all instructions to the letter and contains no typos or larger errors. But timing isn’t the only thing that matters. We know from both experience and data that you can improve your odds by sending your application in earlier. ![]() Most law school admissions committees consider applicants on a rolling basis, and at the beginning of the cycle, they have more open slots. It’s true that applying earlier is better. Why? Because you have nothing to lose but time at the beginning you have everything to lose at the end. You should sprint at the beginning, drafting your personal statement and other essays quickly, then slow down at the end. A lot of people treat their law school applications like a long-distance race: they lope along, fiddling with their essays, and then sprint at the end. ![]()
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