University of North Dakota School of Law

Required on both application routes -- 'Attach your personal statement' appears in the LSAT step list, the GRE step list, and the transfer list. THAT INSTRUCTION IS THE ENTIRE PUBLISHED SPECIFICATION. UND publishes no prompt, no question, no list of suggested topics, no statement of what the committee hopes to learn, no page or word limit, and no formatting, spacing or font guidance anywhere on the apply page or the admission requirements page as fetched on 2026-08-20. Both prompt and the limit fields are therefore left unset rather than reconstructed from generic advice -- an unusually complete silence for a required essay, and one an applicant cannot resolve without asking. The only indication of weight is the evaluation sentence: 'The Admissions Committee holistically evaluates applications based on prior academic achievement, LSAT or GRE scores, personal statements and references. We are looking for students who have pursued a rigorous educational experience and developed strong analytical and writing skills.' NO WHY-UND QUESTION is asked and no separate why_x_essay, perspective statement, or optional essay is published, so those types are omitted. Note that the school's stated concern for applicants 'with substantial ties to North Dakota' is the closest thing to a fit question, and it is not asked anywhere in writing.

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ONE CONDITIONAL ADDENDUM AND NO OPTIONAL ONE. The conditional: 'If you disclosed any Character & Fitness issues in your application, attach a Character & Fitness addendum', repeated on the LSAT, GRE and transfer routes. UND publishes NOTHING further about it -- no question set, no instruction on what an explanation must contain, no evidentiary or records requirement, and no continuing duty to update. What it does publish is the ABA Standard 504 caution: 'All law school applicants are advised that in addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every U.S. jurisdiction.' AND AN UNUSUALLY BROAD REVOCATION CLAUSE, which is the sharpest sentence on the admissions site and reaches enrolled students: 'The UND School of Law Admissions Office reserves the right to deny admission or revoke a previously granted admission -- regardless of the applicant's enrollment status -- if it discovers any information that may have affected the admissions decision. This includes, but is not limited to, falsified transcripts, inaccurate or misleading responses to character and fitness questions, or any other misrepresentation.' Note the standard is information that 'may have affected' the decision, not information that would have changed it. NO GENERAL-PURPOSE ADDENDUM IS OFFERED: there is no named slot for explaining a low GPA, a score disparity, or a gap in the record, and no optional-materials section. Recorded as the school's silence rather than a refusal. required is false because the only published obligation is conditional on an affirmative disclosure.

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'At least two letters of recommendation. No more than four will be accepted', listed among the CAS items on both the LSAT and GRE routes. Letters travel through the Credential Assembly Service rather than to the school. WHO SHOULD WRITE IS DESCRIBED ONLY IN THE EVALUATION CRITERIA, not as instruction: the committee weighs 'Recommendations from those in a position to judge an applicant's potential for the study and practice of law.' Beyond that UND publishes nothing -- no preference for academic over professional recommenders, no discouraged categories, no recency rule, and no guidance on what a letter should address. Recorded as the school's silence.

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'At least two letters of recommendation. No more than four will be accepted', listed among the CAS items on both the LSAT and GRE routes. Letters travel through the Credential Assembly Service rather than to the school. WHO SHOULD WRITE IS DESCRIBED ONLY IN THE EVALUATION CRITERIA, not as instruction: the committee weighs 'Recommendations from those in a position to judge an applicant's potential for the study and practice of law.' Beyond that UND publishes nothing -- no preference for academic over professional recommenders, no discouraged categories, no recency rule, and no guidance on what a letter should address. Recorded as the school's silence.

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OPTIONAL, AND STATED AS SUCH ON EVERY ROUTE: 'If you choose to include one, attach your resume.' The same sentence appears in the LSAT step list, the GRE step list and the transfer list. That is unusual -- most schools in this data set require a resume -- and it is worth not over-reading: UND neither encourages nor discourages submitting one, and publishes no page limit, format, or content guidance for it. All recorded as silence. Note the resume is also absent from the four published evaluation factors, which name the undergraduate record, the test score, recommendations and the personal statement.

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THE GRE IS OFFERED AS A FULL APPLICATION ROUTE AND THE SAME SITE ALSO SAYS THE LSAT IS COMPULSORY -- a live contradiction, recorded rather than resolved per docs/CURATION.md, and worth an email to admissions. The apply page is unambiguous that either test works: 'LSAT or GRE scores can be used to apply', with separate 'LSAT Applicant Steps' and 'GRE Applicant Steps', an ETS routing instruction ('Submit a request to ETS to send your GRE score. University of North Dakota's code is 6878'), a GRE section on the requirements page, and even a promotional 'GRE Mini Quiz'. Yet the LSAT section of that same requirements page states: 'The LSAT, which is administered under the auspices of the Law School Admission Council, must be taken by all applicants for admission to the School of Law.' Both were confirmed against the live pages on 2026-08-20. THE 509 SIDES WITH THE OLDER SENTENCE IN PRACTICE, THOUGH NOT NECESSARILY IN POLICY: all 97 fall 2025 first-year enrollees are certified in the LSAT row, and no GRE row is printed at all -- so either the GRE route is new, or nobody used it, or it did not yet exist for that class. The most likely reading is that the GRE route was added and the LSAT sentence was never updated, but that is an inference and UND has not said so. A GRE-only applicant should confirm before relying on the route. No JD-Next variance is claimed and no JD-Next row appears. NO MINIMUM SCORE IS PUBLISHED, and nothing is said about superscoring, averaging, or multiple sittings. The one piece of timing advice is practical: applicants 'should register to take it at an administration which will assure that the score is reported to the School of Law well before the April deadline so that their application files will be completed early and may be reviewed by the committee before the class is full.'

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'All applicants are required to register with the Credential Assembly Service', and the CAS report must carry 'Transcripts from all institutions of higher education attended.' DEGREE REQUIRED: 'Admission to the School of Law requires a bachelor's degree from a regionally accredited college or university.' UND does not state whether an application may be filed during the final undergraduate year subject to the degree being conferred before matriculation -- a carve-out most schools publish -- so that is recorded as silence rather than read as a bar. NO PRESCRIBED PRE-LAW CURRICULUM, and the reasoning is spelled out: 'Students entering law school come from a variety of academic backgrounds. While there is no prescribed program of pre-law studies, the faculty expects that students will possess the skills necessary for effective oral and written communication. Any undergraduate program developing those skills and providing for rigorous training in analysis and problem solving within an academic discipline can constitute a satisfactory pre-law education.' EVERY FILE IS READ INDIVIDUALLY, which is a real commitment at a school with 401 applications: 'Each member of the Admissions Committee personally reviews the completed file of each applicant. All factors which indicate reasonable prospect for success in law study and in the profession are considered.' No minimum GPA is published. NO ENGLISH-PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT is published for JD applicants -- no TOEFL or IELTS minimum and no foreign-credential evaluation route. The extensive international guidance UND does publish is about visas and the I-20 rather than academic credentials, and applies only after admission. Recorded as silence.

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$35, WAIVED FOR ANYONE WHO APPLIES BEFORE JANUARY 1 -- a blanket early-bird waiver with no form and no eligibility test, the same shape as Idaho's in the previous batch. The apply page gives the amount and this cycle's date: 'UND Law has a $35 non-refundable application fee', and 'UND Law application fee waived through January 1, 2027.' The requirements page states the standing rule that produces it: 'All applicants after January 1 must submit a $35 nonrefundable application fee with the application.' The 509 confirms the pattern held last cycle too, certifying 'Application fee $35 (waived until January 1, 2026)'. Recorded as required true, since the fee is real for anyone applying between January and the July close -- but an applicant who files in the autumn pays nothing. NO NEED-BASED WAIVER is published for those who miss the date, and no LSAC-waiver linkage; recorded as silence. LSAC's own CAS and report charges are separate and UND does not address them. Separately, after admission: a '$300 deposit due April 1', refundable in effect since it is 'returned to them upon full payment of fees'.

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Recorded as the site's silence, not as a statement that UND does not interview. Neither the admissions landing page, the apply page with its full step lists and five-stage admission process, nor the admission requirements page uses the word 'interview' in any form, as fetched on 2026-08-20. The published process runs apply, application review, status check, decision, seat deposit, with no intermediate stage, and the stated evaluation is entirely file-based: 'prior academic achievement, LSAT or GRE scores, personal statements and references.' The only applicant contact offered is a campus visit -- 'A campus visit is the best way to determine if UND is the right fit for your law school education' -- which is framed as the applicant's evaluation of the school rather than the school's of the applicant.

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