It is your responsibility to request an official copy of all required academic records to be sent to LSAC directly from each institution you attended. Transcripts issued to you or sent to LSAC by you will not be processed. We urge you to begin the process well in advance of your application deadlines.
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All postsecondary (after secondary/high school level) education must be listed in your account under ‘Credentials – Transcripts.’ This includes all schools attended, regardless of whether a degree was completed, including study abroad/exchange programs and transfer credits that appear on another transcript. You may use the Transcript Request Form for each institution to request your academic records be sent by the school directly to LSAC in the required manner. (Please note: Secondary/High School information is entered in your account; however, no documents are required.)
If you are in the process of completing your program or degree, a transcript with all available grades should be sent to LSAC. When you have completed it, you should arrange to have the final transcript sent to LSAC.
If you have just enrolled and a transcript is not available, you should request that the registrar’s office of the school send a certificate or statement of enrollment with the anticipated date of completion.
If you are applying to a law school that requires your class rank, you should ask your institution to include a statement of rank with the transcript they mail to LSAC, or it may be sent separately. If the school does not rank, this will be a statement of the fact that your institution does not use a system of class rank.
Transcripts must be sent from institutions even if:
Transcripts received by LSAC, and copies thereof, cannot be returned to the applicant or provided to any third party, including bar examiners or other graduate programs. Because LSAC is not the issuing institution, we have no authority to make copies of your credentials available to any party other than law schools that participate in the LSAC LLM Credential Assembly Service and request your credentials. LSAC reserves the right to request further documentation from you or verification directly from your institutions.
When LSAC has received all your required academic records, your file will be forwarded to AACRAO for evaluation. Other outside evaluations, including World Education Service (WES), will not be accepted or considered. Our evaluators will provide their own report based on a thorough review of your official institution-issued documents.
This is important. AACRAO may request additional documents once the review has begun in order to complete the evaluation. Applicants are notified by email if this occurs.
Credential evaluation takes approximately two to three weeks to complete once LSAC has received all your documents. During peak processing periods, it may take longer. There may be further delay if the evaluator requires additional information to complete the review. Please keep in mind that any omission of required education history could delay the review of your credentials and, thereby, delay our report to the law schools.
LSAC will accept transcripts sent via secure electronic transfer from U.S. schools if your school uses National Student Clearinghouse, Credential Solutions, Scrip-Safe, or Parchment. Please select LSAC as the recipient, Electronic Exchange PDF as the mode of delivery, and do not enter an email address. If LSAC does not appear in the Organization Name drop-down box, then your institution does not have electronic delivery to LSAC enabled. In that case you will need to have the transcript mailed by the school directly to LSAC using the address on the Transcript Request Form. You can print your Transcript Request Forms from the Transcripts page of your LSAC online account.
If you find an error on your Credential Assembly Service (CAS) Report, please print the report, circle or highlight the error, and return as an attachment via email to LLMinfo@LSAC.org. Please include a detailed explanation. This information will be forwarded for review, and you will be notified if a re-evaluation is warranted. If a correction is made to your evaluation, an updated CAS Report will be sent to the schools you applied to.
This is important. What may look like an error to you could be the result of a policy or procedure the law schools have asked us to implement. For more information, call 215.968.1315 between 8:30 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. ET.
For corrected, updated, or final transcripts, please have the issuing institution mail your official transcripts/academic records directly to LSAC in a sealed school envelope with a stamp or seal across the sealed flap of the envelope.
Once received, we will update or replace your existing transcript as appropriate, and your CAS Report will be updated accordingly. We will also send an updated CAS Report to any schools that have already received your report as long as the school’s reporting term is still current.
If you are unable to obtain transcripts from an institution due to an outstanding financial obligation, you must indicate this when registering for the LLM Credential Assembly Service. LSAC will not be able to produce any CAS Reports for you unless we receive official academic records from the institution where you earned your first degree in law.
