JD Admissions

All UF Law applicants must register with the LSAC’s CAS. LSAC’s CAS creates a CAS Report, a compilation of an applicant’s undergraduate (including dual enrollment), graduate, and professional school records; LSAT scores; LSAT writing sample; letters of recommendation; and other materials. UF Law must receive transcripts from all undergraduate institutions attended, even if one undergraduate transcript shows the grades earned at another institution. Upon an applicant’s submission of the application for admission to UF Law, UF Law will request a CAS Report, and the LSAC will send the report to UF Law. UF Law’s CAS school code is 5812.

Transcripts for any work undertaken after an applicant has fulfilled the requirements of a complete CAS Report, such as the transcripts for the final term(s) of undergraduate work, should be submitted via LSAC’s CAS as soon as possible upon completion, even if a decision has been rendered on the application. If there is a decline in the academic record after admission, the Admissions Committee may, at its discretion, rescind an offer of admission and/or amend its scholarship offer once made.

Applicants to the JD program must have or be on track to earn a bachelor’s degree from a four-year, accredited, US institution or international equivalent in any field conferred prior to the first day of law classes of the application year.

More information about the CAS Report may be found at LSAC.org.

With the exception those applying through the Gator Scholars Program, all applicants must submit a valid score from the LSAT, GRE General Test, or both exams. Scores for both exams are valid for five years. If you elect to submit an LSAT score and a GRE score, UF Law will choose which of the scores will be used in considering the application for admission. Your application will become complete and be submitted for review as soon as UF Law has one valid standardized test score. If you have multiple valid LSAT scores, your highest score will be given the most weight. If you have multiple valid GRE scores, the highest percentile scores from each section will be given the most weight. If you would like your application to remain incomplete and withheld from review until a future standardized test score is received, you must email admissions@law.ufl.edu to make this request.

Valid LSAT test scores are included as a part of the LSAC CAS Report and cannot be waived from your application. However, if you take the GRE, you may choose not to submit your GRE score(s) to UF Law. If you elect to apply with a GRE score, you must request that your score(s) received within the last five years be sent by ETS to UF Law. The UF Law GRE school code is 3945.

Gator Scholars applicants must not have an LSAT or GRE score. Instead, Gator Scholars applicants must provide a copy of their official ACT or SAT score that was used to apply to the University of Florida. The ACT composite score or SAT mathematics and critical reading total scores must be at or above the 85th percentile for the administration of the exam taken. Please upload your ACT or SAT results via the online application under the Attachments tab, then select ACT or SAT score.

Applicants are required to submit a personal statement explaining why they wish to attend law school. Tell us who you are, what matters to you, and why you want to be here. This statement should be a maximum of two, double-spaced pages using a 12-point font such as Times New Roman or Arial. The personal statement should be written by the applicant alone, though review by others is acceptable. Please upload the Personal Statement via the LSAC online application website under the Attachments tab, then select Personal Statement.

UF Law requires a minimum of one and maximum of four letters of recommendation. Recommenders should provide a detailed evaluation of the candidate’s academic or professional work.

UF Law strongly recommends that recommendation letters be submitted via the LSAC Evaluation Service. This service is included in the LSAC CAS registration fee. Recommendation letters will be sent electronically to UF Law as part of the CAS Report. Letters received by LSAC after the initial report has been generated will be forwarded to UF Law as they are received at LSAC.

UF Law requires that all applicants respond fully and accurately to the C&F questions on the application, irrespective of any expunging/sealing of the information from any record or anything purporting to authorize any person to deny the existence of such matters. Receipt of advice from any source, including legal counsel, that such information need not be disclosed does not relieve the applicant’s duty to disclose or justify a failure to disclose. Applicants must also disclose pending matters or charges expected to be brought against them. In general, if an applicant is unsure whether to disclose an incident, UF Law advises applicants to err on the side of disclosure.

Applicants with an affirmative answer to any of the C&F questions must submit a description of the incident(s) that include the date, location, detailed explanation, and the resolution of the incident. Applicants must also submit a copy of corresponding official documentation from the applicable college/university, court, or agency regarding the final disposition of each incident. For academic probations, the official transcript is usually sufficient documentation. Official documents must clearly identify the entity that is providing the disposition of the incident. Official documents obtained from an online source must include a web link. UF Law strongly prefers that the C&F explanation and official documents be combined in one attachment to the application. The C&F attachment may be uploaded via the online application under the Attachments tab, then select C&F Addendum.

After submitting the application, candidates have a continuing duty to immediately notify UF Law of any new C&F incidents or C&F updates that occur prior to a decision being rendered or matriculation to the law school and provide related explanations and documentation about those incident(s).

If your records have been expunged pursuant to applicable law, you are not required to answer Yes to question 3, 4, or 5 with respect to that particular charge. You should be aware that a state Board of Bar Examiners investigation into your fitness to practice law can extend beyond the scope of these questions (as well as questions 1 and 2), and you might be required to disclose expunged records as well as any convictions or charges that you are required to disclose in answering these questions.

More information about C&F and the Need for Full Disclosure may be found on our Character & Fitness page. For a summary of each state’s bar admission requirements, please visit the National Conference of Bar Examiners website.

Members of the UF Law community are expected to review and abide by the law and the regulations of the University of Florida and the Levin College of Law, including the Honor Code and Student Handbook.

Applicants may upload addenda on topics that might include, but need not be limited to, information about unique life experiences or challenges, grade progression, standardized test scores, linguistic barriers, disability, or a personal or family history of educational or socioeconomic disadvantage. The addenda may be uploaded via the online application under the Attachments tab, then select the appropriate addendum title.

The following should not be included with your application:

• additional writing samples
• newspaper/magazine articles
• photographs