The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
To be considered a timely applicant for the August 1991 entering class, you must (1) take the Law School Admission Test no later than December 1990, (2) register with the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS) no later than January 15, and (3) submit your completed application to the Law School Admissions Secretary by February 1. For information on transmittal of transcripts to the Law School Data Assembly Service, see p. 4(2a) of the Bulletin. Registration with LSDAS is necessary even if you completed an LSDAS registration in an earlier year. In completing this application, please type or print.
IMPORTANT: Give full name. Do not use initials or abbreviations unless they are part of your name.
_____________________________________ _____ ___________________ Last Name First Middle Sex Social Security # ____________________________________________ ___________________ Present address -- Street City State Zip Code Area Code / Telephone ____________________________________________ ___________________ Permanent address -- Street City State Zip Code Area Code / Telephone ____________________________ County of permanent address
Send all correspondence to permanent address after this date: _________________
Please check one box: £U.S. Citizen £Permanent Resident £Non-Citizen, citizen of what country ________________________
If non-citizen or permanent resident, provide documentation which clarifies your immigration status (i.e., copy of visa you currently hold).
Race or ethnic group: £African American £Mexican American £American Indian £Other Hispanic £Asian American £White £Other (describe) _________________________________________
This information is requested in order to facilitate reporting of ethnic information in the Office of Civil Rights Division, Department of Education. Applicants will not be denied because this item is not completed. (Race may be one factor in the admissions decision.)
Birthdate: ____________________________ Month Day Year Check the provision under which you seek admission:
£ Provision 1: Applicant now has an undergraduate degree or will receive one before enrolling in law school. £ Provision 2: Applicant will be within six semester hours of completing all requirements for a baccalaureate degree by the time of enrolling in law school. The Dean may declare this applicant eligible for admission upon the condition that the applicant earn the baccalaureate degree before beginning the last year of law study.
Have you ever attended UT, Austin: £Yes £No If yes, when? Date of term/session: ______________________________________ Name when last registered: ____________________________________________
1. Give name and address of parent, or legal guardian if other than parent, if you are not financially independent. __________________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________ Street City State Zip Code
2. Is parent or legal guardian in military service? ___________________________ If so, give duty station: _______________________________________________
3. Are you in military service? _________________________________________ If so, give Home of Record on your original entry into service: ________________
4. From what high school did you graduate? ______________________________ ________________ High School Date of Graduation _______________________________ City State
5. Give all addresses at which you have lived during the last three years, with dates. _____________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
6. Please list your degree-granting institution(s) and include the requested information.
£ Check here if The University of Texas at Austin is the last school attended.
7. Have you taken the LSAT? ______ When? ____________ Score(s) __________ Do you plan to take the test again? _________ When? _____________
8. Have you previously been registered in any law school? (Yes or No) ________ If the answer is «yes», please name the institution or institutions, and set forth the reasons for not continuing your legal education there. List dates of attendance. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
THIS APPLICATION IS ONLY FOR STUDENTS WHO HAVE NOT PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED LAW SCHOOL. CREDIT CANNOT BE TRANSFERRED UNLESS A TRANSFER APPLICATION IS COMPLETED.
The following questions touch upon your background and personal experience. If there is any matter with respect to your education, your family, or other aspects of your background which you believe to be of special relevance to your application, please feel free to expand upon it, attaching additional sheets as may be needed.
The Admissions Committee receives applications from many more persons who are highly qualified to attend law school than there are places available. In making admissions decisions among applicants with comparable undergraduate grade point averages and LSAT scores, the Admissions Committee seeks a diverse and heterogeneous student body. The Committee considers such factors as exceptional personal talents, unique work or service experience, leadership potential, rigorousness of the undergraduate course of study as reflected by the applicant's college transcripts, graduate study, maturity, physical handicap, a history of overcoming disadvantage, ability to communicate, race, ethnic background, geography, cultural disadvantage, letters of recommendation, and other factors. Consequently, your answers to questions 9-11 may be important in the admissions decision. (Your answers to these questions must be composed by you.)
9. If your college transcripts reveal that your grades for one or more semesters were markedly different from those in the other semesters, please explain. Please make any other comments about your college transcripts or your preparation for college (such as a disadvantaged educational or economic background) that you believe will help the Admissions Committee in evaluating your application. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
10. If you are now a college graduate, or if you delayed your college education after high school, or if your college career was interrupted, please state your present occupation or your occupation during the relevant period (including service in the Armed Forces and the highest rank achieved). Please include job descriptions and major areas of responsibilities as well as describing periods of unemployment. _____________________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
11. Describe any significant vocational, nonvocational or extracurricular activities, other experiences, or other aspects of your background which you believe relate to the admissions criteria described above and which you feel the Admissions Committee should consider in evaluating your application. ___________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
12. Have you ever been convicted of a felony? If so, please explain. ____________ __________________________________________________________________
13. Have you ever been disciplined by an institution of higher learning for academic dishonesty? If so, please explain.________________________________ __________________________________________________________________
Persons who have been arrested or convicted for offenses other than common traffic violations may have difficulty in gaining admission to the Bar. If you wish advice on the subject, provide the information by separate letter which will not be made part of your permanent file.
Personal interviews are not a part of the Law School's admissions process. Letters of recommendation are not required, although most applicants do submit them.
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