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Evaluation Service

In August 2010, LSAC launched the Evaluation Service for law school applicants. The service, which is adjunct to, but separate from, the Letter of Recommendation Service, was designed to give recommenders an additional tool to assess whether an applicant is a good fit for law school and the legal profession. The Evaluation Service includes online-only ratings of 30 individual noncognitive attributes and skills in six categories, including

• intellectual skill;

• personal qualities;

• integrity and honesty;

• communication;

• task management; and

• working with others.

Schools can choose any combination of evaluations and letters of recommendation that they may wish to require or accept—up to four letters and four evaluations per applicant. For the 2011 application year, from August 2010 to August 2011, 131 schools accepted evaluations through the LSAC Evaluation Service. More than 45,000 evaluations were submitted by evaluators during this same time period.

BIENNIAL REPORT 2009–2011