Nova Southeastern University Shepard Broad College of Law

page_limit is recorded as 2 because 'should not exceed two pages' is a stated cap rather than guidance. That is a genuinely short limit -- most schools in this data set allow three or four pages, and several publish no cap at all -- so applicants reusing a statement written for another school will usually need to cut. The prompt itself is unusually bare: 'explaining why you should be selected for admission,' with no themes suggested and no font, spacing, or margin requirement published. NSU points elsewhere for the rest -- '(see application instructions for additional details)' refers to the LSAC application, which is not readable without an LSAC account, so the school's public guidance ends here. NO SEPARATE ESSAYS: NSU publishes no perspective or diversity statement, no standalone 'why NSU' essay, no optional essay, and no addendum invitation anywhere on its admissions or program pages. Those requirement types are omitted from this file entirely rather than recorded as required: false, per docs/CURATION.md -- the school has made no claim about them either way.

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One of the six items on NSU's Application Checklist, and required rather than optional: 'Submit your resume, which should include all post-secondary education information, employment history, extracurricular activities, and honors, awards, publications, and licensures.' The content list is prescriptive and broader than most -- publications and licensures are named explicitly, which suits a school with a large part-time evening division drawing working professionals. No page limit or format is published, so none is recorded.

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'Submit two letters of recommendation from college professors, work colleagues, or employers who can attest to your ability to enter a competitive law program.' NSU explicitly puts academic and professional recommenders on equal footing rather than preferring academic letters, which again fits its working-student intake. NO MAXIMUM IS PUBLISHED, so count_accepted is left unset rather than guessed. Letters route through the Credential Assembly Service, which the checklist describes as 'the platform you will use to submit all required documents and transcripts.'

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'Submit two letters of recommendation from college professors, work colleagues, or employers who can attest to your ability to enter a competitive law program.' NSU explicitly puts academic and professional recommenders on equal footing rather than preferring academic letters, which again fits its working-student intake. NO MAXIMUM IS PUBLISHED, so count_accepted is left unset rather than guessed. Letters route through the Credential Assembly Service, which the checklist describes as 'the platform you will use to submit all required documents and transcripts.'

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LSAT ONLY, and by silence rather than by refusal -- the distinction matters per docs/CURATION.md. The Application Checklist step reads 'Register and take the LSAT. Submissions must be less than 5 years old and must include at least one writing sample,' and no NSU page fetched on 2026-08-18 mentions the GRE as an admission test for the JD; there is no statement that the GRE is not accepted, so this is recorded as the school never having addressed it. Same for JD-Next. Two firm rules are stated: a FIVE-YEAR VALIDITY WINDOW, and LSAT Writing as a hard component ('must include at least one writing sample'). Nothing is published about whether the highest or average score is used, and no minimum score is stated. The 509 corroborates the LSAT-only picture -- all 225 first-year enrollees are reported as LSAT admissions enrollees, and the report prints no GRE and no JD-Next row. ONE EXCEPTION EXISTS BUT IS NOT A JD PATH: NSU's Accelerated JD (AJD) for foreign-trained lawyers is marked 'LSAT not required' on the entering class profile. That is a separate program with its own admission route, not an alternative test for ordinary JD applicants -- though note the tension that the 509 nonetheless counts the entire first-year class as LSAT admissions enrollees, recorded on the stats entry.

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'Register and complete the Credential Assembly Service (CAS) of LSAC. This is the platform you will use to submit all required documents and transcripts.' A conferred bachelor's degree is required by matriculation rather than by application: 'You must have an undergraduate degree from a regionally accredited college or university-or the foreign equivalent-by the time our fall semester begins.' NSU adds guidance on what it wants that transcript to show, without setting a minimum GPA: 'While no pre-law undergraduate course of study is necessary, your transcript should show courses that are challenging, rigorous, and help develop critical skills needed for success in law study and practice.' COUNTRY-SPECIFIC DOCUMENT RULES, which few schools publish and which matter given NSU's international intake. For students educated in the People's Republic of China: official degree certificates ('zhuanke, bachelor's, master's, etc.') and graduation diplomas in Chinese with 'a complete and literal English translation,' with the transcript issued 'by the institution's central administrative office responsible for preparing and verifying official student records' -- and explicitly, 'Documents issued by an individual academic department or by a notary public are not considered official.' For students educated in Cuba, a two-step LSAC procedure: Consultoria Juridica International (CJI) sends the 'Certificacion de notas y certificado de titulo' plus a CJI English translation to LSAC via DHL express mail, and the applicant separately sends LSAC a copy as originally issued by the university. No TOEFL or IELTS requirement is published for the JD -- recorded as silence.

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THERE IS NO APPLICATION FEE. NSU's 2025 ABA Standard 509 Information Report certifies the application fee as 0, and no page fetched on 2026-08-18 -- full-time program, part-time program, admissions, prospective students, tuition and fees, or entering class profile -- mentions an application fee, an amount, or a fee-waiver process at all. Recorded as required: false because there is nothing to pay and nothing to waive; the site's silence and the 509's certified zero agree, so this is not a case of the school failing to mention a charge. LSAC's own CAS and registration fees are separate and NSU does not address them.

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Recorded as the site's silence, not as a statement that NSU does not interview. No page fetched on 2026-08-18 -- admissions, prospective students, the full-time or part-time program pages with their Application Checklists, entering class profile, admitted students, or ABA disclosures -- mentions an admissions interview of any kind, evaluative or informational, by invitation or on request. NSU publishes no list of holistic review factors either, so unlike most schools in this data set there is no factor list in which an interview's absence could be read as meaningful. The only contact offered to prospective applicants is a campus visit, a virtual tour, or personalised help from admissions staff, none of which is described as part of the evaluation.

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