Top 50 Law School Application Opening Dates for the 2020-2021 Cycle

Please note, these are the dates that the applications become available on LSAC for applicants to peruse and begin to prepare school-specific essays, not when they can be submitted (though for many schools this is the same date).

Organized by School:

• Yale: September 1
• Stanford: September 15
• Harvard: September 15
• University of Chicago: September 1
• Columbia: September 1
• NYU: September 1
• UPenn: September 1
• UVA: September 1
• UC Berkeley: September 1
• U Michigan: August 1
• Northwestern: September 1
• Duke: September 1
• Cornell: September 1
• Georgetown: September 15
• UCLA: September 1
• UT Austin: September 1
• WUSTL: September 1
• USC: September 1
• Vanderbilt: September 1
• Boston U: September 1
• U Minnesota: September 1
• Notre Dame: September 1
• GWU: September 1
• Arizona State: August 10
• Emory: August 20
• U Florida: September 1
• UC Irvine: September 1
• Fordham: September 15
• U Iowa: September 1
• UNC: October 1
• U Alabama: September 1
• Boston College: September 15
• UGA: September 1
• U Illinois: September 1
• Washington & Lee: August 24
• William & Mary: September 1
• BYU: September 7
• UC Davis: September 1
• Indiana U–Bloomington: August 13
• Ohio State: September 15
• U Wisconsin: September 1
• George Mason: September 1
• Wake Forest: September 1
• U Washington: October 1
• U Utah: September 1
• U Colorado: October 1
• U Arizona: September 26
• U Maryland: September 1
• Pepperdine: September 1
• Baylor: July 1
• UConn: September 1
• FSU: September 1

Organized by Date:

July 1

• Baylor

August 1

• U Michigan

August 10

• Arizona State

August 13

• Indiana U–Bloomington

August 20

• Emory

August 24

• Washington & Lee

September 1

• Yale
• U Chicago
• Columbia
• NYU
• UPenn
• UVA
• UC Berkeley
• Northwestern
• Duke
• Cornell
• UCLA
• UT Austin
• WUSTL
• USC
• Vanderbilt
• Boston University
• U Minnesota
• Notre Dame
• GWU
• U Florida
• UC Irvine
• U Iowa
• U Alabama
• UGA
• U Illinois
• William & Mary
• UC Davis
• U Wisconsin
• George Mason
• Wake Forest
• U Utah
• U Maryland
• Pepperdine
• UConn
• Florida State

September 7

• BYU

September 15

• Stanford
• Harvard
• Georgetown
• Fordham
• Boston College
• Ohio State

September 26

• University of Arizona

October 1

• UNC
• U Washington
• U Colorado