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LSAC has asked me multiple times now if I'm submitting any evaluations with my LORs. What benefit would an evaluation confer on my application? I know what the basic principle is--quantitative analysis of a student's abilities--but is it worth my time to do one or two? Should they be submitted by someone other than a recommendor, or would it be best to have one of them complete a separate evaluation? I feel like this may be asking a little much of them, that is, writing a school-targeted letter, a general letter for all law schools, and an evaluation as well...what do you think?

I wouldn't do an evaluation unless that school specifically recommends or requires evals. FWIW, I had a recommendor also complete an evaluation.

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Dany wrote:

cinephile wrote:I wouldn't do an evaluation unless that school specifically recommends or requires evals.

This.

I didn't do evals.

I've been told by people who work in the admissions departments of various T-14 law schools that an evaluation would only be valuable if there was a narrative attached to each rating. The numbers alone would prove of little use to the evaluators. That being said, the admissions person from Penn that I talked to at a law school forum had no idea what I was talking about when I mentioned evaluations. Then he said, "Oh, those things that LSAC started doing last year? Yea, we don't need them."

Again, depends on the school. Check in with the schools you're applying to.

I was just up at the Chicago law school forum, and I asked reps from almost the entire T-14 what they thought about the evaluations. Uniformly they said they are not required, and that an applicant without any is not a problem. Some spoke disparagingly of them. One director of admissions said that the only useful section could potentially be the comments, but then, why not just write a letter of recommendation?

I don't plan on submitting any.