All law school applicants must register for and take the Law School Admission Test (LSAT), administered by the Law School Admission Council (LSAC or Law Services), and register with the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS). Registration for the LSAT and LSDAS can be done separately or concurrently; the same form is used for both. Two copies of the registration form are included in each Law Services Information Book, available from the CDO, Leo Flynn, or from:

Law Services
Box 2001
661 Penn Street
Newtown, PA 18940-0981
215.968.1001
www.lsac.org

Law School Admission Test (LSAT)

The LSAT is offered four times each year (October, December, February, and June) at more than one hundred examination centers around the world. It is strongly recommended that applicants take the test by October (or December, at the latest) of the calendar year prior to the year in which admission is sought. For example, applicants to a university's first-year class of 2003 should take the LSAT by October or December 2002. Applicants who submit scores from the February 2003 test may hinder their chances of admission.

The LSAT should be retaken only if an applicant believes that his or her performance can be improved substantially. If the test is taken more than once, all scores, including the average, are considered.

Registration with Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS)

Your LSDAS registration directs the CDO to compile a number of LSDAS reports to be sent, upon request, to the law schools to which you apply. LSDAS reports include an undergraduate academic summary, all LSAT scores and writing samples, and copies of all American or Canadian transcripts submitted to LSDAS.

Transcripts
Candidates must submit transcripts to LSDAS from every undergraduate college or university they have attended in the United States and Canada. These transcripts must be requested by the applicant and sent directly from all undergraduate institutions to:

LSDAS
Box 2000-M
661 Penn Street
Newtown, PA 18940-0993

LSDAS will summarize the transcripts and send a summary report, as well as copies of all transcripts, to each law school to which application is made.

As a general matter, LSDAS will not process foreign transcripts. Official transcripts of all undergraduate work done outside the United States and Canada must be requested by the applicant and sent directly from the foreign college or university to the Law Office in question.

Applicants who have completed graduate work in the United States or Canada must request official graduate school transcripts. These transcripts must be sent directly from the graduate institution either to the Law School or to LSDAS.

All admitted applicants who intend to matriculate at a university's law school must request an official final transcript from Pomona. This final transcript must show the award of a bachelor’s degree and must be sent directly from Pomona to the law school's admissions office in question. Transcripts sent to LSDAS and reproduced in the LSDAS report cannot be used as proof of college graduation.