St. Thomas University College of Law

Required, named in the school's single published statement of what the Admissions Committee weighs: 'The Admissions Committee considers an applicant's Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score(s); undergraduate (and any graduate) academic record, including evidence of academic progress; the personal statement; letters of recommendation; any school disciplinary or criminal record or involvement as a party in a lawsuit; and any additional information the candidate brings to the Committee's attention in connection with the application.' NO PROMPT, NO LENGTH, NO PAGE COUNT AND NO FORMAT IS PUBLISHED anywhere -- the apply, prospective-students and admissions-updates pages were all fetched and none says anything further about the statement. ONE PHRASE IN THAT LIST IS WORTH READING TWICE: 'evidence of academic progress' sits inside the academic-record criterion rather than as a separate factor, which tells an applicant with an upward grade trend where the school looks for it. NO WHY-ST-THOMAS QUESTION is asked, and no perspective statement or optional essay is published, so those types are omitted rather than recorded as absent. What the school says about itself, if the statement is to speak to fit: 'St. Thomas University College of Law is a highly-regarded, student-centered law school where diversity is cherished, a commitment to human rights and international law flourishes, and the Catholic heritage of social justice enhances the education of all faiths... St. Thomas Law is a leader in diversity, boasting one of the most culturally diverse student bodies in the country.'

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AN OPEN SLOT IS NAMED IN THE CRITERIA LIST RATHER THAN IN AN INSTRUCTION: the committee considers 'any additional information the candidate brings to the Committee's attention in connection with the application.' No prompt, length or format is published. THE DISCLOSURE ITEM IS PART OF THE ADMISSIONS CRITERIA THEMSELVES, WHICH IS UNUSUAL AND BROADER THAN MOST -- recorded here because the taxonomy in docs/DATA.md has no character-and-fitness type. The committee weighs 'any school disciplinary or criminal record or involvement as a party in a lawsuit'. Note the third item: being a party to a lawsuit, of any kind, is named alongside discipline and criminal records. Very few schools in this dataset reach civil litigation at all, and St. Thomas does not limit it to suits alleging intentional acts the way Akron's question set does. The school otherwise prints only the standard bar warning: 'In addition to a bar examination, there are character, fitness, and other qualifications for admission to the bar in every U.S. jurisdiction.' No question set is published in advance, and no instruction is given about what an explanation should contain. Required is false because any writing obligation here is conditional.

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LSAT ONLY: the committee's criteria name 'Law School Admission Test (LSAT) score(s)' and no second test appears anywhere on the admissions pages. The 2025 509 prints a single LSAT row covering all 431 first-years with no GRE or JD-Next row. Under docs/CURATION.md the site's silence is not itself a denial, but the filing shows no alternative in use. THE WRITING SECTION GATES COMPLETENESS, which is easy to overlook because it is administered separately from the test: 'The second part of the test is a written essay. LSAT Writing is separately administered online using secure proctoring software on the candidate's own computer. Candidates can complete their LSAT Writing as early as eight (8) days prior to the multiple-choice exam. Your application is not complete until we receive your LSAT Writing.' Few schools in this dataset say outright that a missing writing sample stops the file. NO MINIMUM SCORE, NO VALIDITY WINDOW AND NO POLICY ON MULTIPLE SCORES is published -- the criteria list says 'score(s)', acknowledging that there may be several without saying how they are treated. All three are real gaps.

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The application runs through LSAC -- 'St. Thomas Law offers an online application through the Law School Admissions Council (LSAC)' -- and the committee weighs the 'undergraduate (and any graduate) academic record, including evidence of academic progress'. THAT IS THE WHOLE OF WHAT IS PUBLISHED about transcripts. No CAS registration instruction, no LSAC school code, no bachelor's-degree requirement, no final-transcript deadline and no international credential-evaluation policy appears on the apply, prospective-students or admissions-updates pages. Those are genuine gaps rather than omissions in this file's research; CAS is recorded as required because applying through LSAC entails it for an ABA-approved school and the school directs applicants there. Note that St. Thomas does run a separate route for internationally qualified lawyers, linked as 'foreign-attorneys' from the admissions menu, which is not the J.D. route described here.

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Required, named in the committee's criteria list as 'letters of recommendation'. NO NUMBER IS PUBLISHED -- neither a minimum nor a maximum -- so no count_required or count_accepted is recorded rather than inferring one, and no guidance is given about who should write. The plural is the only signal, so an applicant should assume at least two and email the Office of Admissions to confirm. That is the same gap as at UNT Dallas and UDC in this batch; here it sits alongside an unusually short published account of the whole application, which is what makes it worth flagging rather than treating as an oversight.

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BY COMMITTEE DECISION, AND THE TRIGGER IS PUBLISHED IN A WAY MOST SCHOOLS AVOID: 'The Committee will conduct a personal interview when it believes the interview will assist it in reaching a decision.' Read precisely -- that is neither a signal of strength (as at Elon, where interviews go to candidates already judged competitive) nor an unexplained 'certain circumstances' (as at High Point). It says an interview happens when the file alone is not enough to decide, which is information about where an applicant stands. No format, timing or route to request one is published. Required is false: nothing obliges an applicant to interview, and nothing they do can make one happen.

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A $40 FEE, PAYABLE BY POST, WITH A WAIVER AVAILABLE ON REQUEST: 'A check or money order made payable to St. Thomas University in the amount of $40 must accompany the application material. The application processing fee is non-refundable. Fee waivers are available to qualified candidates. If you are interested in receiving an application fee waiver please contact [the Office of Admissions].' The 2025 509 certifies the same figure ('Application fee $40'). Like Regent, this is a posted payment attached to an otherwise electronic application, so budget mail time against the deadline. THE WAIVER IS THE BETTER HALF OF THIS ENTRY: St. Thomas publishes one and invites applicants to ask, which several fee-charging schools in this batch do not -- UMass Law and Regent both charge and publish no waiver route at all. No eligibility criteria are stated, so 'qualified candidates' is left to the office to judge; there is no published deadline for asking.

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