What we do with your work
Last updated 20 August 2026
The Docket keeps track of law school applications: which schools you are applying to, what each one requires, when it is due, and the drafts you are writing. This page says plainly where that information lives and what leaves the app.
We are not affiliated with LSAC, with the ABA, or with any law school. We do not submit anything on your behalf.
What we keep
Your school list and check-offs. Before you make an account these stay in your browser and never reach us. When you sign in, the work in your browser moves into your account and the browser copy is cleared.
Your profile — CAS GPA, LSAT or GRE scores, cycle, and background — if you choose to enter it. It is used for one thing: comparing your numbers against what schools publish about the classes they enrolled. It is never sent anywhere outside the app.
Your drafts. Essays, statements, addenda, and résumés written in the Writing tab, along with any versions you save. This is why Writing is the one part of the app that requires an account — browser storage is not a defensible home for the only copy of a personal statement.
Notes and dates you set yourself on individual checklist items.
Who else touches it
Clerk handles sign-in and holds your email address and login credentials. We never see or store your password.
Neon hosts the database your work is stored in. Vercel hosts the application itself.
Resend delivers deadline reminder emails, if you turn them on. Reminders are off unless you switch them on yourself, and every one has a one-click unsubscribe.
AI feedback on your drafts
When you ask for feedback on a draft, that draft is sent to Anthropic’s Claude API to be read. This is the only time anything you have written leaves our systems, and it only happens when you ask for it.
What is sent:
- the text of the draft you asked about
- what kind of document it is — a personal statement, a résumé
- the prompt text published by the schools you have attached it to, and their word or page limits — the prompts, not the schools’ names
What is never sent:
- your name or your email address
- your GPA, LSAT, GRE, or anything else from your profile
- which schools you are applying to
- any other draft than the one you asked about
This is not a promise we ask you to take on trust: the code that assembles that request has no access to your profile at all, so it cannot begin sending it by accident.
Anthropic’s handling of what it receives is governed by their own terms, which you can read at anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
The three passes do not write for you
When you ask for a reading, the assistant tells you where your draft is not answering the question, where the argument loses its thread, and where it breaks a law school convention. It can point at a phrase and suggest a direction, or a different word.
It will not write a sentence or a paragraph for you to paste in, and it cannot be talked into it — the responses a reading is able to return have nowhere to put one. An essay smoothed out by a model is no longer in your voice, which is the thing an admissions reader is actually looking for.
Feedback we generate is stored with the draft it was written about, so you can read it again without asking twice. When you edit that draft, the feedback is marked out of date rather than quietly left to look current.
Asking questions is different
The Ask about this draft box is a conversation with an AI model, and it is not held to the boundary above. It will help with whatever you ask it, including wording. It can also be wrong, confidently, in ways that are hard to spot.
We have not tried to police what you do there, because it would not work and would only get in the way of people using it honestly — anyone set on having a model write their essay has one open in another tab already. Law schools ask you to certify that your application is your own work, and they largely run that on trust. So do we. Use your own judgement about what you take from it.
Questions you ask there are not stored at all. The conversation lives in the page while you have it open and is gone when you close it — we keep no copy.
Deleting things
Deleting a draft deletes its saved versions, its feedback, and every record of which checklist items it answered. Removing a school from your list removes your progress and notes for that school. Both happen immediately and are not recoverable, which is the point.
To delete your account and everything in it, write to us at the address below.
What we do not do
- We do not sell your information, or share it for advertising.
- We do not predict your odds of admission. Where the app shows Reach, Target, or Likely, it is reporting where your numbers fall against percentiles a school published — nothing more.
- We do not email you unless you have asked us to, apart from what Clerk sends to verify a sign-in.
Asking us
Questions about any of this, or a request to delete your account: privacy@lawschool-app.vercel.app.
Deadlines and requirements throughout the app come from each school’s own admissions pages, with the date each was checked recorded beside it. Always confirm against the school before you submit. Back to The Docket