2015/'16 Application Release Date for Top 50 Law Schools

We called the top 50 law schools and asked “when will your application be available for submissions this cycle?” This is what we got:

Organized by School

Yale – October 1
Harvard – September 15
Stanford – September 2
Columbia – September 1
U Chicago – August 15
NYU – September 1
U Penn – September 1
Duke – September 1
UC Berkeley – September 1
UVA – September 1
U Mich – September 1
Northwestern – September 15
Cornell – August 15
Georgetown – September 10
UT Austin – First week of September
UCLA – September 1
Vanderbilt – September 1
WUSTL – First week of September
Emory – Mid-September
U Minnesota – September 1
USC – September 1
GWU – September 15
U Alabama – September 1
U Iowa – September 1
Notre Dame – September 1
Arizona State – Early to mid-September
Boston U – September 1
U Washington – October 1
William & Mary – September 1
UC Irvine – September 1
UC Davis – September 1
U Georgia – September 1
U Wisconsin-Madison – September 1
Boston College – September 21
BYU – September 15
Fordham – September 1
Indiana U Bloomington – September 1
Ohio State – September 15
UNC – October 1
U Colorado Boulder – October 1
UIUC – September 1
George Mason – September 1
U Arizona – September 1
U Utah – October 1
W&L – September 1
SMU – End of September
U Florida – September 1
U Maryland – September 1
Wake Forest – October 1

Organized by Date
August 15
U Chicago
Cornell

September 1
Columbia
NYU
U Penn
Duke
UC Berkeley
UVA
U Michigan
UCLA
Vanderbilt
U Minnesota
USC
U Alabama
U Iowa
Notre Dame
Boston U
William & Mary
UC Irvine
UC Davis
U Georgia
U Wisconsin-Madison
Fordham
Indiana U Bloomington
UIUC
George Mason
U Arizona
W&L
U Florida
U Maryland

September 2
Stanford

September 10
Georgetown

September 15
Harvard
Northwestern
GWU
BYU
Ohio State

September 21
Boston College

September (exact date TBD)
UT Austin – First week of September
WUSTL – First week of September
Emory – Mid-September
Arizona State – Early to mid-September
SMU – End of September

October 1
Yale
U Washington
UNC
U Colorado Boulder
U Utah

Disclaimer: these can change always check and update with schools because they control when they open up their applications, not us of course!

Second Disclaimer: SCG called every one of these schools. But we cannot guarantee the person(s) we spoke with at each is sure they are giving us this coming cycle’s agreed upon release date versus the previous cycles. Nor can we be certain they were giving us the date applications can be viewed (not what we asked for) versus submitted (what we asked for). At times, it is not that precise.