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Has anyone seen the requirement for an evaluation by Rutgers - Newark? Yeah, you need letters and evaluations. What the hell is that all about? No other school I have applied to has required anything even as remotely absurd as this. I don't have the time or the desire to mess around with LSAC's newest gimmick. They probably lost my application and fee.

Is this becoming the new norm?

I think this is some kind of mix up.

On the LSAC website, if you click on the button to assign LORs and evaluations for Rutgers Newark, it states:

“The school requires 1 LORs and 1 Evaluations and it also requires 1 additional documents which can be either LORs or Evaluations”

But the instructions section of Rutgers states:

"Only one recommendation or evaluation is required to complete your application."

I'm guessing Rutgers made a mistake setting up their application.

What is bizarre about the Rutgers app, though, is that you can't pay through LSAC. You have to pay through a third party site, and then mail Rutgers printouts proving you have paid the fee and completed the LSAC application.

I know when I visited, admissions was complaining about the volume of applications they had to sort through. It looks like they're solving that problem. Could you submit without the eval? Or will that hold up the application?

This thing has to be the single most horrific abomination of a law school application as I've ever seen. You can't pay through LSAC, but you can pay through their online payment service. But the fun doesn't stop there. You have to print the confirmation email and mail it to them. With a certification letter. What the hell is a certification letter and how do I get it?

#MajorHeadache

If the application is kicking your ass, maybe you ought to re-evaluate your life goals.

king3780 wrote:If the application is kicking your ass, maybe you ought to re-evaluate your life goals.

I appreciate the advice. Bro.

Rutgers will be pulling the mistaken evaluation requirement shortly. Certification letters are found under the 'forms' tab on the application.

Case resolved.

mrtoren wrote:Rutgers will be pulling the mistaken evaluation requirement shortly. Certification letters are found under the 'forms' tab on the application.

Case resolved.

I'm glad I saw this. Camden needed the certification too and I already sent in my payment without it. Fml.