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Required Items

A completed application to Northwestern University School of Law consists of a number of parts that are sent to the Office of Admissions and Financial Aid by the applicant, the Law School Admission Council, and recommenders:

JD Applicants

• A personal statement
• One letter of recommendation
• The Law School Data Assembly Service Law School Report
• Law School Admission Test results
• A nonrefundable application fee payable by check or money order to Northwestern University
  

JD-MBA Applicants

Complete application information is available on the JD-MBA Program site.

LLM and LLM/Kellogg Applicants

• A personal statement
• One letter of recommendation
• Official transcripts (translated into English)
  Official transcripts should be from all undergraduate, graduate, and law schools attended. You may follow one of two procedures for submitting your transcript for review, neither of which gives an advantage or a disadvantage with our Admissions Committee. You may enclose your translated transcript with your application, or you may submit it directly to the Law School Admissions Council LLM Credential Assembly Service for International Applicants.

• An official copy of the applicant's TOEFL score report
  Foreign applicants who are not native speakers of English should take the TOEFL examination and have an official copy of the score sent to Northwestern. When indicating where the TOEFL report should be sent, the institution code for Northwestern University School of Law is 1565 and the department code is 03. Since it may take up to two months or more for the score report to reach the Law School, an applicant should take the TOEFL no later than December of the year prior to enrollment. An application will not be complete and ready for review until the Law School receives the official score report.
• Curriculum vitae/resume written in English
  LLM/Kellogg applicants should have a minimum of one year of full-time legal or business-related work experience. A description of that employment should be included in a one- to two-page curriculum vitae or resume written in English. Applicants to the LLM program are also required to submit a CV or resume.
• A nonrefundable application fee payable by check or money order to Northwestern University

Two-Year JD Applicants

• A personal statement
• One letter of recommendation
• Law School Admission Test results
• An evaluative admissions interview
  Two-Year JD applicants are required to participate in an evaluative admissions interview. Admissions interviews may be conducted on the Northwestern campus or, if preferred, over the phone.
• A nonrefundable application fee payable by check or money order to Northwestern University