After you register for the Credential Assembly Service (CAS), you must have a separate transcript sent to LSAC directly from each undergraduate and graduate institution you attended in the United States, its territories/associated states, or Canada.
It is your responsibility to request an official copy of all required transcripts to be sent to LSAC directly from each institution you attended, even if you didn't complete your degree.
Law schools require transcripts from the following institutions you have attended:
Transcripts must be sent from institutions even if
Clear sponsorship means
Work that appears as transfer credit on the sponsoring institution’s transcript has not been completed under the clear sponsorship of the institution, even if it is referenced as being completed under the institution’s exchange program, study-abroad program, or consortium. However, grades received in courses transferred from other institutions are typically not reported on the sponsoring institution’s transcript, nor included in the sponsoring institution’s GPA. They simply contribute credit toward a degree or elective requirement, assuming a grade of C or better was attained. (Grades of C- and below typically do not transfer.)
The transcript from your bachelor’s degree-granting (home) institution may include grades and credits earned through an interinstitutional agreement (e.g., cooperative, exchange, consortium). You do not need to request a separate transcript from the interinstitutional school attended IF
In these cases, your home school has treated the coursework as if it were its own. This is not transfer credit. Consequently, the grades and credits will be summarized under the home school.
An international transcript is required if you were directly enrolled at such an institution(s) outside the U.S., its territories/associated states, or Canada, and the total amount of work you completed at the institution(s) combined is the equivalent of more than one year of study in the U.S., its territories/associated states, or Canada. If your total amount of study abroad is only equivalent to one year of study or less and is not a clear sponsorship by a domestic school, then LSAC does not require the transcript to be submitted.
This is important: Please check with your prospective law school, as they may still require the study abroad transcript.
To confirm your institutions attended and generate your Transcript Request Forms, follow these steps:
Transcripts issued to you or sent by you will not be processed. It is your responsibility to request an official copy of all required transcripts to be sent to LSAC directly from the registrar’s office of each institution OR from one of the following approved electronic transcript transfer sources:
Unless your school uses one of the above electronic transcript transfer sources and participates in the electronic transfer delivery service, you must use LSAC’s Transcript Request Forms when requesting transcripts from your institutions.
This is important: Not all schools participate in sending transcripts via Electronic Transfer even though they may use one of the services listed above. (For example, some schools using these services will only deliver a paper copy or an electronic PDF version of your transcript.) If your school does not participate in delivery via Electronic Transfer, you must request that your official transcript be mailed to LSAC. If your institution has an established account with LSAC, official transcripts may be uploaded to LSAC via the registrar portal of the LSAC website. To avoid processing delays, all mailed transcripts should be sent to:
LSAC
662 Penn Street
Box 2000-M
Newtown, PA 18940-0993
The address to which your transcripts must be sent will be printed on your Transcript Request Forms. You need not worry about an address when using one of the electronic services.
Transcripts issued on behalf of your institution through any other service will not be accepted electronically. You must request that the service mail the official transcript along with LSAC's Transcript Request Form.
This is important. Please Note:
LSAC will process your transcripts within two weeks of the date that they are received.
Additional time is required to process and evaluate transcripts from international institutions that you attended for more than one year.
Candidates must have official transcripts sent to LSAC for any additional academic work completed, including degrees obtained, to update the file. If your CAS Report has already been sent to requesting law schools, an updated report will be transmitted, provided their terms are still active. To have an updated transcript sent to LSAC, please follow the instructions above to order your transcripts.
If you attended an institution and are unable to obtain transcripts from that institution due to a financial obligation, you must indicate this when registering for CAS. If the institution is the only undergraduate institution you attended, or if you have attended multiple undergraduate institutions and have outstanding financial obligations with all of them, LSAC cannot produce your CAS Reports.
This is important. Please Note: Financial obligations do not include Student Loans.
Please log into your LSAC account, select “Credentials & CAS,” then select “Add Institutions.” Once you have entered all of the necessary information for your institutions, please select the “Continue” button at the bottom of the page to confirm and submit your institutions attended.
Law schools wish to see the original transcript from each institution where you have earned college credits, including institutions where you took college-level classes while in high school, institutions where you received credits that were transferred to your degree-granting school, and institutions where you took courses that were not part of your degree. This includes transcripts that might only indicate grades of “withdraw,” “incomplete,” and the like. For transcripts from closed institutions, please contact the Department of Education of the state in which you attended the institution. That agency will be able to provide you with information regarding the location of your transcript.
It’s easy. You can order two ways:
Please print and send the transcript request form to the school, and request they mail it with your official transcript to LSAC, in a school-sealed envelope. Our mailing address will be shown on the transcript request form. You can access the form by selecting the Transcript Request Form link under each institution’s listing on the Transcripts page of your online account.
The academic record must be issued by the institution’s central administrative office responsible for preparing and verifying official student records. It must be sent directly to LSAC by the issuing institution in a securely closed envelope and with the institution’s official stamp or seal across the securely closed flap. All international educational records must be provided in the original language. If the transcript or other required documents are not in English, a translation must be included.
You must have your institutions attended send LSAC official institution-issued or attested true copies of your permanent academic record (e.g., transcripts, report cards, examination statements, marks sheets, diplomas) showing subjects or courses studied per each academic term/year with final examination results/grades/marks issued. Please visit the Document Requirements (Listed by Country) page of our website for specific requirements for each country.
