Review Process
Once a file is complete, it is evaluated by a professional Admissions Office staff member. The Admissions Office, guided by faculty policy, admits a certain number of applicants determined each year. An initial reader makes a recommendation, and that recommendation is forwarded to the Dean of Admissions for a secondary review. Some applications will be reviewed by members of the faculty. The applicant status online (ASO) tool does not always accurately reflect where a candidate is in our internal review process.
As a result of the Admission Office’s consideration, some applicants are admitted, some are placed on a waiting list, and the remaining applicants are denied. If the number of admitted students who accept an offer of admission falls below the number necessary to fill the class, then the wait list is used to fill the remaining places.
Check Application Status
You may check the status of your Berkeley Law School application using the Online Application Status Checker. This feature allows you to monitor the status of your file at your convenience. Your status will be updated as soon as changes are made to your application.
For those applications that are not yet complete, it may take a few weeks from the date we receive your application to the date your application is processed. LSAC will notify you when your LLM CAS report is sent to us. The Admissions Office will notify candidates via email if additional information is required in order to complete your file. Once your status changes to in review, you will also receive an email notification.
If you experience problems, please contact the Admissions Office at llm@law.berkeley.edu.
Decision Notification
| Track | Decisions Announced |
|---|---|
| LL.M. executive track |
Remote + summer option: applicants will receive their decision within two to three weeks of application completion. Two summers option: applicants will receive their decision within two to three weeks of application completion. Both options: applicants who apply for both options by November 16th will typically receive a decision for both around the same time, within two to three weeks of application completion. |
| LL.M. traditional track | Decision notifications will be sent to applicants as decisions are made. Applicants who have a completed application by our priority deadline will receive a decision by January 15. The majority of applicants will receive their decision by early March 2027. |
Appeals
Once an applicant has been denied admission, the file is not reconsidered during that admission cycle. Files are carefully reviewed on a comparative basis. Reconsideration after the conclusion of the process might create an unfair situation more favorable to the individual applicant, since reconsideration would lack the perspective provided by comparison with other files. Exceptions are made only in unusual cases in which an error, for which the applicant was not responsible and which the applicant promptly brought to the law school’s attention, may have affected the decision.