University of Wyoming College of Law

'Applicants must attach to their electronic application one personal statement.' NO PAGE LIMIT IS RECORDED, AND THIS IS THE TEXTBOOK CASE FOR NOT RECORDING ONE. Wyoming says 'A typical personal statement is 2-3 pages' -- descriptive guidance about what applicants usually do, not a cap. docs/CURATION.md names this exact construction as the thing not to convert into a page_limit, so page_limit is left unset and the sentence is preserved here instead. Treat three pages as the practical ceiling regardless. No spacing, font or margin instruction is published, unlike the closely-worded Montana page. FORM IS GRADED ALONGSIDE SUBSTANCE, and one use is ruled out: 'It will be evaluated for writing ability as well as content. Do not treat your personal statement as a narrative of your resume.' NO WHY-WYOMING QUESTION is asked and no separate why_x_essay is published, so that type is omitted. WYOMING PUBLISHES NO PERSPECTIVE STATEMENT, NO OPTIONAL ESSAY, AND NO GENERAL ADDENDUM of any kind, so this single required statement is the only place an applicant can put anything not captured by the form -- including an explanation for a weak semester or a low score. That is a genuinely narrow application relative to the rest of this batch, and it is recorded as the school's silence rather than as a prohibition. NOTE THE FAMILY RESEMBLANCE TO MONTANA: Wyoming's personal statement paragraph and its seven-point recommender brief are near-identical in wording to Montana's, suggesting shared regional boilerplate. The two schools nonetheless differ on the points that matter -- Montana caps the statement at three pages and accepts the GRE; Wyoming does neither.

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WYOMING PUBLISHES NO ADDENDUM INVITATION AT ALL -- no general explanatory statement, no GPA or LSAT addendum, no perspective or diversity statement, and no optional-materials section anywhere on the application page or the admissions FAQ. Against the rest of this batch, several of which offer two or three named optional pieces, that is the most complete absence of optional writing recorded here, and it means the required personal statement is the only place an applicant can explain anything. Recorded as the school's silence rather than as a refusal to accept additional material. CHARACTER AND FITNESS IS STATED AS A CONDITION RATHER THAN AS A DISCLOSURE PROCESS: 'Character and Fitness - Applicants must be of good moral character and must maintain good moral character as a condition of continuing enrollment.' That single sentence is everything Wyoming publishes. There is no question set, no instruction on what an affirmative answer requires, no evidentiary or records requirement, no continuing duty to update, and no ABA Standard 504 bar-admission caution -- a substantial silence next to peer schools in this batch that reproduce their full question lists and specify required documentation. An applicant with something to disclose has no published guidance on scope or depth and would need to ask. Recorded on the addendum entry because the taxonomy in docs/DATA.md has no character-and-fitness type; required is false because no unconditional written addendum is ever asked for.

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Listed as a required component of the College of Law application: 'Personal Resume'. That is the entire published instruction -- no page limit, no format, and no content guidance. Recorded as the school's silence. The one indirect constraint sits on the personal statement, which warns 'Do not treat your personal statement as a narrative of your resume', implying the resume is expected to carry the record of experience on its own.

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Letters are listed among the items needed 'To fulfill requirements for the CAS', so they are required rather than optional -- but WYOMING NEVER STATES HOW MANY ARE REQUIRED, which is why count_required is left unset rather than guessed. What it publishes is a composition preference and a ceiling: 'Ideally, these should include one general reference letter and one academic reference letter. You may submit a maximum of three letters.' The word 'ideally' makes the two-letter pairing a preference, not a floor, so recording count_required as 2 would assert something the school has not said; an applicant should nonetheless plan on two. A CAREER-CHANGER SUBSTITUTION IS ALLOWED: 'Applicants who graduated from an undergraduate program several years ago may substitute letters from employers or supervisors who can address the applicant's abilities and intellectual promise for the study of law.' WYOMING PUBLISHES A SEVEN-POINT BRIEF FOR RECOMMENDERS, worth forwarding verbatim to anyone writing on your behalf: 'A reference letter that is particularly helpful is one that discusses the applicant's: Intelligence (analytical powers, rigor of thought, critical faculty, reasoning ability); Independence of thought (originality, imagination, creative intelligence); Effectiveness of oral communication; Effectiveness of written communication; Industry and motivation (persistence, self-discipline, study techniques); Judgment and maturity (conscientiousness, common sense); and Leadership ability.' Letters route through CAS. Note this brief is near-identical to Montana's, though Montana requires two letters explicitly and accepts four.

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WYOMING REFUSES THE GRE OUTRIGHT, ANSWERING THE QUESTION DIRECTLY IN ITS ADMISSIONS FAQ: 'Will you accept the GRE in lieu of the LSAT? We will only accept the LSAT, and look forward to receiving your exam score as part of your application packet.' That is an explicit denial rather than site silence -- per docs/CURATION.md the distinction matters, and Wyoming joins Colorado, Tulane, UConn and UNLV among the schools that have actually said no. The requirement itself: 'Candidates must register for and take the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). Scores are valid for five years.' The 509 corroborates: all 74 first-year enrollees are certified in the LSAT row, with no GRE row and no JD-Next row printed at all. The taxonomy type remains lsat_or_gre. NOTHING ELSE IS PUBLISHED ABOUT HOW THE SCORE IS USED -- no minimum, no statement on superscoring, averaging or highest-score selection, no treatment of multiple sittings, and no mention of LSAT Writing. Each is a silence rather than a policy, and an applicant with two sittings would need to ask admissions directly. Wyoming also publishes no statement of admissions criteria or weighting anywhere on its application pages, beyond the personal statement being 'evaluated for writing ability as well as content'.

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'Register for LSAC's Credential Assembly Service (CAS) and follow the instructions to ensure a complete application. It is advisable to register with CAS at the same time one registers for the LSAT.' The report must carry 'Official Transcripts from ALL of the higher education institutions you have attended to LSAC.' DEGREE BY MATRICULATION, NOT BY APPLICATION: 'Candidates must complete a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited college or university prior to matriculation.' NO MINIMUM GPA is published, and no guidance appears on how the undergraduate record is read -- nothing about grade trends, institutional rigor, major, or graduate work. NO INTERNATIONAL OR ENGLISH-PROFICIENCY REQUIREMENT is published on any law admissions page fetched on 2026-08-19: no TOEFL or IELTS minimum, no foreign-credential evaluation route, and no international-applicant instructions. Recorded as genuine silence -- an internationally educated applicant would need to ask. Wyoming does provide an applicant-facing completeness tool: 'we provide an online applicant status checker... we have provided an application checklist for you on the status checker site. If your application status reflects that your application is not complete, please review this checklist to determine what item(s) are missing.'

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$50, listed as a required component of the application: 'Non-Refundable $50 Application Fee'. The 509 independently certifies 'Application fee $50', so the two agree. NO FEE-WAIVER PROCESS IS PUBLISHED ANYWHERE on the application page or the admissions FAQ -- not need-based, not keyed to an LSAC waiver, not tied to a visit or event. Recorded as the school's silence on waivers rather than as a statement that no waiver exists; note the contrast with Montana in this batch, which refuses waivers explicitly. LSAC's own CAS and report charges are separate and Wyoming does not address them. Separately and much larger, after admission: a non-refundable $500 seat deposit, payable in two $250 installments, covered on the final deadline entry.

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Recorded as the site's silence, not as a statement that Wyoming does not interview. Neither the application page -- which carries the full deadline structure, requirements list, application components, status-checker process and acceptance terms -- nor the admissions FAQ describes an admissions interview of any kind, evaluative or informational, by invitation or on request, as fetched on 2026-08-19. The word appears on the FAQ only inside the title of a recommended book. The described process is entirely file-based and self-service, tracked through the online applicant status checker. The only applicant contact Wyoming offers is a campus visit or tour request, which is not described as part of evaluation.

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