BIENNIAL REPORT
2009–2011
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
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intellectual skill;
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personal qualities;
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integrity and honesty;
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communication;
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task management; and
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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.
Evaluation
Service