PS All applicants must electronically attach to the online application a brief personal statement of no more than 500 words. Applicants may describe their professional interests and goals, or they may use the statement to describe aspects of themselves and/or their work that are not apparent from their other application materials. Applicants should include their reasons and qualifications for applying to a particular program or specialization. Applicants to the Legal Theory program should use the personal statement mostly to address their main field(s) of interest within legal theory and the potential research questions/projects they wish to explore. Applicants to the part-time LLM in Taxation, the E-LLM, or the APC in Taxation, who additionally received their first degree in law from a US or Puerto Rican law school may submit a personal statement, but are not required to do so. CV All applicants must also electronically attach a résumé or curriculum vitae to their application. This document may be one to two pages in length, and should account for all education and work experience, as well as any period of more than three months not spent in school or employed. Publications, presentations, or other career-related information may also be indicated. Fee The $80 application fee is in addition to the service fees charged by LSAC, and is payable by credit card only on the LSAC website RL All applicants are required to use the LSAC Letter of Recommendation Service. Applicants must comply with LSAC requirements and policies regarding letters of recommendation. Applicants should advise their recommenders that Graduate Admissions may contact the recommender directly if further information is necessary. Letters may be sent to LSAC electronically or on paper, depending on the recommender’s preference. The Committee on Graduate Admissions does not favor one submission method over the other. To ensure that the correct letters are received, applicants must carefully follow the instructions when registering recommenders and assigning letters to NYU. Applicants are further advised to provide proper instruction to their recommenders regarding the submission of the letters. One academic letter of recommendation is required for application to the full-time and part-time LLM programs. Applicants may submit additional academic or professional letter(s) if they wish to do so. JSD applicants are required to submit two letters of recommendation from law school faculty members who are familiar with the candidate’s academic work and can attest to the candidate’s ability to complete a doctoral dissertation that will make a significant scholarly contribution. Applicants to the part-time LLM in Taxation, the E-LLM, or APC in Taxation programs, who additionally received their first degree in law from a US or Puerto Rican law school, may submit a letter of recommendation, but are not required to do so. Transcript Applicants must comply with all LSAC requirements and policies regarding transcripts, and submit their official transcripts and translations with the LSAC form(s) to the LLM Credential Assembly Service. The law school report issued by LSAC includes copies all of transcripts and translations which the Committee on Graduate Admissions will use when evaluating applications. Official transcripts from all law degrees, and translations of these documents from their original language to English, are required. Transcripts from all institutions attended are required, even if no degree was earned and/or credits from the institution appear on another school’s transcripts, such as with exchange programs. Applicants who attended a school that releases information about class rankings should ensure that the school includes an official statement of class rank in the sealed envelope with the transcript. If class rank is unavailable, a school may instead include an official statement that attests it does not rank its students. In addition to these documents, all applicants must calculate the grade point average and provide a class rank for their law degree in order to submit the online application. Applicants in their final year of study must also indicate which classes are currently in progress when submitting the online application. If there is additional information that applicants believe will be helpful to the Committee to evaluate their academic credentials, they should electronically attach an addendum to the online application