Upper Year Application Documentation

The following documentation is required for admission to the upper year categories:

• Official transcripts of all law grades received. Transcripts should include academic records of all undergraduate programs and subsequent graduate work and should specify the courses taken, the grades, the degree and the standing obtained and provide a legend to the grading scheme. Official transcripts are required from all postsecondary institutions attended, including transcripts from studies as a visiting or exchange student. If transfer credits are recognized on the official academic record from the applicant’s home institution in North America, it is not necessary to have a W.E.S. assessment done of the courses taken on exchange or letter of permission. Applicants who have undertaken undergraduate studies outside of Canada and the United States must have their foreign transcript assessed by World Education Services or equivalent service. Applicants who have undertaken graduate studies outside of Canada and the United States are not required to have their foreign transcript assessed by World Education Services or equivalent service, although such assessment may be requested. Candidates from the National Committee of Accreditation will not be required to have their foreign transcripts assessed by World Education Services or equivalent service. See www.wes.org/ca. 


• Certified copy of the LSAT score report form. Applicants who were admitted to a Canadian law school without an LSAT score report will not be required to take the test. NCA applicants who have never written the LSAT test will not be required to take the LSAT test.


• A personal statement outlining the reasons for seeking admission to Queen’s Law School. (See the personal statement section under the section “First-Year Law Applicants”.)


• At least one, but no more than two, confidential academic letters of reference from instructors at the current law school.


• For letter of permission and transfer students, a letter from the Dean or Associate Dean Academic attesting that the applicant is in good standing and has not been the subject of any disciplinary sanction or investigation for misconduct on academic or non-academic grounds.


• Letter of permission from the previous law school, if admission is being sought in this category for one or both terms of third-year J.D. degree studies.


• For the NCA category, applicants must provide a current letter of recommendation from the NCA that specifies the courses and conditions upon which a Certificate of Qualification would be issued and any subsequent correspondence with the NCA that pertains to progress in courses stipulated initially.


• Such further and other documentation and information as the Admissions Committee may request.