Transfer and Visiting Students

The Law School's transfer and visiting students enhance our classrooms and community. Admission as a transfer student or a visiting student is available to those applicants who have been attending a law school that is a member of the Association of American Law Schools and is accredited by the American Bar Association.

A transfer student has completed one year of full-time study at another law school and intends to complete a law degree at the Universty of Minnesota. A visiting student is one who plans to spend a year or less at our University.

Applicants seeking admission as a transfer student must register with LSDAS in accordance with the Law School's application procedure. In addition to registering with LSDAS, they must fill out an application, pay a fee of $70, and have their current university's registrar provide our Law School with three items:

1. an official transcript showing grades earned in the first year of law study
2. a letter of good standing from the registrar
3. one letter of recommendation from a law school instructor

A statement of the circumstances that draw the applicant to our Law School also will be considered, along with a current resume.

Applications are due July 1 (date may be waived by the Office of Admissions upon written request).

NOTE: Transfer applicants who wish to petition for the journals at Minnesota must submit their applications early, before May 16, 2008, when the journal petition process will begin. Such applicants must also inform the Admissions Office of their intent to petition. Please contact the Admissions Office to obtain further information about transfer admission and journal petitions. You may also contact mnpetitionquestions@gmail.com

Transfer applicants may also seek to participate in our invitational moot court programs. To do so, a transfer applicant may provide a writing sample from the student's own first-year legal writing program, along with an indication of the one or two invitational courts in which the student is most interested. The writing sample and expression of interest will then be distributed to each relevant court. Each court may then decide whether to add the transfer student's name to the end of the existing wait list for that court. A transfer student who does not enter an invitational court off of the court's wait list will automatically be eligible to participate as a second-year student in the law school's Maynard Pirsig Moot Court program.

Applicants who wish to attend the Law School for a year or less as visiting students are not required to register with LSDAS. However, they must submit the same information as transfer students, including a transcript that reflects all first-year and second-year law school grades.