Top 50 Law School Application Opening Dates for the 2020-...

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

September 15

Stanford
Harvard
Georgetown
Fordham
Boston College
Ohio State

September 26

University of Arizona

October 1

UNC
U Washington
U Colorado

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