Admissions

Persons interested in being considered for admission to the Law and Psychology Graduate Program should apply for admission to both the College of Law and one of the following graduate programs in the Department of Psychology: social, developmental, or clinical. Applicants should also send an email to the Director of the Law and Psychology Graduate Program, Linda J. Demaine, J.D., Ph.D., alerting her that the applications have been submitted.

Admissions information for the Department of Psychology and the College of Law and the is available at http://www.asu.edu/clas/psych/gprogram/admissions.htm and http://www.law.asu.edu/?id=330, respectively. Applicants should comply with the deadlines and other admissions requirements of the College of Law and the Department of Psychology. For the Fall 2008 semester, the deadline for the psychology application depends on which area of psychology the applicant would like to pursue: Clinical psychology applications are due by December 15, 2007, whereas social psychology and developmental psychology applications are due by January 5, 2008. The deadline for applying to the College of Law is February 1, 2008; however, applicants to the JD/PhD program are encouraged to submit their law school application by January 5, 2008.

Admission to the Program is highly competitive. Persons with the following characteristics are likely to be most suited for the Program:

• LSAT: 160 or higher
• GRE: Verbal and Quantitative combined = 1300 or higher
• Analytical: 5.0 or higher
• Undergraduate GPA: 3.50 or higher (overall or final two years of study)
• Positive letters of recommendation
• A well-written personal statement that evidences the applicant’s competencies and aptitude for excelling in the field of law and psychology, the applicant’s research interests, and why ASU is the applicant’s choice for graduate studies

Each application is judged on its merits as a whole, such that a strong showing on one characteristic may counterbalance a less strong showing elsewhere in the application.

Applicants to the Law and Psychology Graduate Program who are denied admission to the Program may pursue the degree(s) for which they are admitted, unless the College of Law’s or Department of Psychology’s offer of admission is conditioned on the applicant’s admission to the Program.

ASU law students seeking admission to the Law and Psychology Graduate Program are required to apply for admission to the Department of Psychology and the Law and Psychology Graduate Program. ASU psychology graduate students seeking admission to the Program are required to apply for admission to the College of Law and the Law and Psychology Graduate Program.