Law School Application Time Line

This recommended Time Line for Fall 2023 admission assumes that you will complete and submit your applications by Thanksgiving-ish 2023. It’s an ideal time line — meaning you started thinking about the process at least a year and a half before you intend to start law school.  As you’ll see, there a number of places where you can “catch up” to the time line, if you didn’t start thinking about things that early. You can view this same information as a checklist here or go here for all our application resources.

Step one: Apply for fee waivers

January – March 2022

March – July 2022

April 28, 2022

Week of June 10, 2022

  • Take the LSAT*

June 30, 2022

June – September 2022

July 26, 2022

Week of August 12, 2022

  • Take the LSAT*

September 1, 2022

Week of September 9, 2022

  • Take the LSAT*

September – October 2022

September 29, 2022

October 14-15, 2022

Week of October 14, 2022

  • Take the LSAT*

November 2022

  • Week of Nov. 11: Take the LSAT* (think of this LSAT only as your backup plan, not the “ideal” timeline.)
  • Finalize applications and transmit

November 11, 2022

December 2022

  • Check on LSAC that files are complete; follow up if necessary

January – May 2023

Early January 2023

March – April 2023

* Ideally you’ll only take the LSAT once! So choose just one among these options.