JD Admissions Process
The JD admissions process offers prospective students two paths—a binding decision application and a regular application. Both applications are completed through the Law School Admission Council (LSAC). More information about each option is available below.
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Application Requirements
- Complete and accurate application for admission, including the incorporated Binding Decision agreement
- Valid unexpired LSAT and/or GRE official score report
- Official transcripts from all institutions of higher education attended submitted and processed by LSAC’s Credential Assembly Service (CAS)
- Letter of recommendation submitted through LSAC’s Credential Assembly Service (CAS)
- Resume
- Personal statement
- Imagining Your Future statement
- Character & Fitness addendum, if required based on application response
- Application fee
- Optional statement
- LSAT / GRE / GPA addendum
- Additional letters of recommendation submitted through LSAC’s Credential Assembly Service (CAS), up to a maximum of two additional letters for a total of three letters of recommendation
Applicants must submit a valid unexpired TOEFL or IELTS official score report, unless the applicant has earned (or will earn), prior to law school matriculation, a baccalaureate-level or higher degree from an accredited institution of higher education where English is the primary language of instruction and where the corresponding degree of study was undertaken primarily in one of the following countries:
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Commonwealth of Australia
- The Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belize
- Canada
- Commonwealth of Dominica
- Grenada
- Co-operative Republic of Guyana
- Republic of Ireland
- Jamaica
- Federation of Saint Christopher and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Republic of Malta
- New Zealand
- Trinidad and Tobago
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- United States of America
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
The Office of Admissions & Financial Aid may, at its sole discretion, require a TOEFL or IELTS score of any applicant, regardless of education or other attributes.
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.
You will be asked to certify that all of your responses are complete and accurate as well as certify certain other statements prior to submitting your application. This includes a continuing duty to inform Wake Forest University School of Law and to update your responses without delay if the responses you provide later become incomplete or inaccurate.
Wake Forest Law is one of several schools that accept Graduate Record Examination (GRE) scores for admissions consideration. Applicants who would like to be considered based on their GRE scores should not register or sit for the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Scores and registration information is automatically sent to Wake Forest Law for applicants who have taken an LSAT in the past or who sit for an administration during the application process. Wake Forest Law must consider any LSAT score or registration that is reported. Subsequently reported GRE scores will be invalid for the admissions process.