Your transcripts provide a complete record of your academic history. Law schools use your transcripts to examine the types of courses you’ve taken and the success you’ve had in the classroom.
Law schools will want to review all the transcripts that contributed to your undergraduate degree, as well as transcripts for graduate courses or other higher education institutions you may have attended, even if you didn’t earn a degree.
You should provide transcripts from: | You must send transcripts even if: |
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Community colleges Undergraduate and graduate institutions Law, medical, or professional institutions Institutions attended for summer or evening courses Institutions attended, even though a degree was never received Institutions from which you took college-level classes while in high school, even though they were for high school credit Institutions that clearly sponsored your overseas studies ( i.e., the courses received the sponsoring institution’s credit and were not included as transfer credit on your degree-granting institution’s transcript) International transcripts, if applicable | Credit was transferred from an institution and it appears on another institution’s transcript The institution is unaccredited The institution is closed "Withdraw" or "Incomplete" are the only grades listed You have just enrolled |
How to Request U.S. Transcripts
To request your transcripts, log in to your LSAC JD Account and select the Credentials & CAS tab. Under the “Actions and Information” heading, select “Add Institutions.” Once you have entered all the institutions you have attended, you will visit the Transcripts page of your account. There is a link to the Transcript Request Form with each school listing.
Transcripts must be sent to LSAC directly from the registrar’s office of each institution OR from one of the following approved electronic transcript transfer sources:
National Student Clearinghouse
Credentials Solutions
Scrip-Safe
Parchment
MyCreds (select Law School Admission Council from the list of Institutional Recipients)
LSAC will process your U.S. transcripts within two weeks of the date they are received. Additional time is required to process and evaluate transcripts from international institutions that you attended for more than one year.
Note: You may request updated transcripts at the conclusion of a semester while an application is under review, and you are required to request that a final transcript (which includes the date on which your degree was conferred) be sent to LSAC.
Requesting International Transcripts
To request an international transcript, please print and send the transcript request form to the school and request they mail it, with your official transcript, to LSAC in a school-sealed envelope. Our mailing address will be shown on the transcript request form. You can access the form by selecting the “Transcript Request Form” link under each institution’s listing on the Transcripts page of your LSAC JD Account.
The academic record must be issued by the institution’s central administrative office responsible for preparing and verifying official student records. It must be sent directly to LSAC by the issuing institution, in a securely closed envelope, and with the institution’s official stamp or seal across the securely closed flap. All international educational records must be provided in the original language. If the transcript or other required documents are not in English, a translation must be included.
Note: Students who studied abroad through an international school for an equivalent of one year (or more) of credit must submit transcripts from those institutions. An international credential evaluation will be completed to determine degree and credit equivalency to degrees or credit earned in the U.S. Even if you studied abroad for less than a year, you may want to request those transcripts to allow law schools to see your grades — especially if you had a strong performance in those classes.