Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

SHORT, AND HALF OF IT IS A WHY-SCHOOL ESSAY. 500 words is among the tightest limits in this data set, and the prompt splits that budget between why-law and why-Haub — which is why this file records no separate why_x_essay row: there is no room for a generic statement here, and an applicant reusing one from another school will not have answered the second half. Full instruction: 'The Admissions Committee requires each applicant to submit a brief, typed, double-spaced personal statement as part of the application.' Typed and double-spaced are the only formatting requirements published. AN EXPLICIT, NUANCED GENERATIVE-AI POLICY, which is rare — most schools in this data set say nothing at all, and the few that speak ban AI outright. Haub Law draws a line instead: 'Note: You may use AI tools to brainstorm ideas, check grammar, or get feedback on how to improve your writing. However, submitting a personal statement or writing sample that was written fully or in part by an AI tool as your own work is not allowed and will be considered plagiarism. All submitted work must be your own original writing and reflect your authentic voice and experiences.' The school links a separate AI Policy PDF, which was not fetched for this file. A DIFFERENT PROMPT APPLIES TO INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS, and it is not the 500-word why-law-why-Pace question: their checklist asks for 'A typed personal statement setting forth those life experiences which have contributed to your personal development and which have prepared you to undertake a rigorous program of law study.' No word limit is attached to that version. Recorded as published; the school does not explain the difference. NO OTHER ESSAY IS ASKED FOR: no perspective or diversity statement and no optional essay prompt appears anywhere on Haub Law's admissions pages.

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THREE DIFFERENT ADDENDA LIVE ON THIS PAGE, and one of them is genuinely required of a whole category of applicant. (1) CHARACTER AND FITNESS, required when triggered: 'If your answer "yes" to any of the character and fitness questions on the application, you must submit an addendum explaining the facts and circumstances of each incident. A "yes" answer will not necessarily preclude you from being admitted.' (2) THE ALTERNATE-EXAM ADDENDUM, required of every GRE or JD-Next applicant and easy to miss because it is stated only inside the standardized-test section: 'Applicants submitting the GRE or JD-Next must also notify our office by indicating the alternate exam on the application form and by writing an addendum indicating which exam you are taking.' That is a second, mandatory document for anyone not using the LSAT — see the lsat_or_gre entry. (3) AN OPTIONAL EXPLANATORY ADDENDUM, offered only in the international-applicant checklist: 'You may also include a short addendum if there is an aspect of your application (such as a leave of absence) that you wish to explain further.' No equivalent invitation appears in the domestic checklist, so a domestic applicant wanting to explain a gap or a weak semester has no published route — recorded as a silence rather than as a prohibition. This row is marked required: false because two of the three triggers are conditional and the third applies only to non-LSAT applicants; no length or format guidance is published for any of them.

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'Two Letters of Recommendation: Submit two letters of recommendation to the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service that serves all member schools. This service is included in your Credential Assembly Service registration.' No ceiling is published, so count_accepted is omitted. HOW LETTERS FLOW, which matters for late-arriving letters: 'Your letters will be copied and sent to us along with your LSAC Law School Report or as received. Therefore, we will receive any new letters for an applicant's file whenever a report update is produced' — so a letter that lands after the file is submitted still reaches the committee on the next CAS update. ON WAIVING THE RIGHT TO SEE THEM, which few schools address directly: 'The Admissions Committee wishes to assure you that no additional weight is placed on appraisals for which the student has waived his or her right.' No preference between academic and professional writers is published, and no content guidance is given.

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'Two Letters of Recommendation: Submit two letters of recommendation to the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service that serves all member schools. This service is included in your Credential Assembly Service registration.' No ceiling is published, so count_accepted is omitted. HOW LETTERS FLOW, which matters for late-arriving letters: 'Your letters will be copied and sent to us along with your LSAC Law School Report or as received. Therefore, we will receive any new letters for an applicant's file whenever a report update is produced' — so a letter that lands after the file is submitted still reaches the committee on the next CAS update. ON WAIVING THE RIGHT TO SEE THEM, which few schools address directly: 'The Admissions Committee wishes to assure you that no additional weight is placed on appraisals for which the student has waived his or her right.' No preference between academic and professional writers is published, and no content guidance is given.

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Listed on the application checklist as the single word 'Resume.' and repeated in the international-applicant checklist. No page limit, format, or content guidance is published anywhere on Haub Law's admissions pages, so none is recorded.

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CAS IS REQUIRED WHATEVER TEST YOU TAKE: 'Applicants are required to register with Law School Admissions Council "LSAC" regardless of which standardized test is taken to have academic transcripts processed and sent to the Law School. The LSAC supplies the Law school with a report, known as the CAS Report, that summarizes the applicant's academic profile, LSAT score, copies of transcripts, writing samples and letters of recommendation.' Transcripts: 'Send official transcripts for all undergraduate, graduate or professional study to the Law School Admission Council (LSAC) for your CAS report.' INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS FACE A HARDER RULE THAN DOMESTIC ONES, and it removes the test choice the rest of the page offers: 'Applicants who attended undergraduate or graduate programs at foreign universities are required to take the LSAT and must register with either the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC) JD Credential Assembly Service to have their foreign undergraduate and graduate transcripts evaluated.' So the GRE and JD-Next routes described elsewhere on the page are closed to foreign-educated applicants. ENGLISH PROFICIENCY, with a published minimum and an age limit: 'Applicants whose native language is not English are required to take the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL)... An exception may be made for an applicant who has earned a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university in the United States,' and the international checklist specifies 'TOEFL Test score of at least 100, not more than 4 years old.' No IELTS alternative is offered. NO EXPLICIT BACHELOR'S-DEGREE REQUIREMENT AND NO MINIMUM GPA is stated for domestic applicants — recorded as a silence. REAPPLICANTS AND RETURNING STUDENTS: 'Students who previously attended Pace and who have not been in attendance at the law school for more than one year must complete the admissions process in the same manner as any other applicant... It is essential that all time and all activities since the previous enrollment be accounted for in the new application.'

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THREE TESTS ACCEPTED, WITH A FIVE-YEAR AGE LIMIT ON ALL OF THEM AND AN EXTRA STEP FOR THE TWO ALTERNATIVES. 'Applicants to Pace Law may submit Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) scores, Graduate Record Examination (GRE) results, or JD-Next. All scores must be no more than five years old from the date of projected enrollment at Pace Law.' Note the anchor is the projected enrollment date, not the application date. ROUTING DIFFERS BY TEST: 'LSAT scores will be reported to the law school through Law School Admission Council (LSAC) credential assembly service. GRE results must be sent directly to our office from Educational Testing Service (ETS) using school code: 4020. JD-Next results must be sent directly to our office from Aspen Publishing.' THE EXTRA STEP, which is a hard requirement and appears nowhere in the main checklist: 'Applicants submitting the GRE or JD-Next must also notify our office by indicating the alternate exam on the application form and by writing an addendum indicating which exam you are taking.' LSAT WINS IF YOU HAVE ONE: 'Note: If an applicant has an LSAT score on file with LSAC, the LSAT score will be considered the primary score over the alternate exams.' FOREIGN-EDUCATED APPLICANTS HAVE NO CHOICE — they 'are required to take the LSAT' (see transcript_cas). No multiple-score policy (highest versus average) and no last-acceptable administration is published, though the admissions calendar lists the cycle's six LSAT sittings from September 2026 through April 2027. Haub Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report shows the practical mix: 320 LSAT admissions enrollees against 4 GRE enrollees (2 full-time, 2 part-time) out of 324 first-years, the GRE cohort falling below the ABA's 10-test-taker floor so no GRE percentiles are published. No JD-Next row appears in the filing.

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$70 — but only the 509 says so. The application checklist lists 'Application Fee' as a required item and never names an amount; the international checklist does the same. The figure comes from Haub Law's 2025 ABA Standard 509 report, which lists the application fee as 70. NO FEE-WAIVER PROCESS IS PUBLISHED anywhere on the admissions pages fetched on 2026-08-18 — recorded as a silence, not as a refusal. Recorded as required: true because the fee is owed by default with no published route to avoid it. LSAC's own CAS and Letter of Recommendation Service fees are separate; the page notes only that the recommendation service 'is included in your Credential Assembly Service registration.'

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Recorded as the site's silence, not as a statement that Haub Law does not interview. No Pace law admissions page fetched on 2026-08-18 — the admissions overview, the JD application-information page with its full item-by-item checklist and its transfer, visiting, international, reapplication, standardized-test and CAS sections, the JD admissions calendar, or the Part-Time Flex JD page — mentions an admissions interview of any kind. The calendar lists admitted-student events in April and May, which come after a decision rather than before it, and the school offers campus visits and 'Admissions Virtual Counseling Sessions' separately, neither described as part of the evaluation.

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