LSAT testing accommodations: the process and the deadline with no exceptions

Accommodations on the LSAT cover a wide range — extended time, additional or extended breaks, a separate testing room, screen readers, permission for food, medication or medical devices, and more. They are requested through LSAC, not through the school you are applying to, and the request is decided before test day.

How to request

The deadline is the deadline

This is the single most important thing on the page, and it is worth planning backward from. The deadline is for the request, and the request needs documentation — which usually means an appointment with a clinician, a report they have to write, and a turnaround you do not control. Start weeks before the registration deadline, not on it.

If you have been approved before

So the documentation burden lands once. If you are weighing whether a retake is worth the paperwork, the answer for an already-approved accommodation is that there is essentially none.

What law schools see

An accommodated score arrives at a law school looking exactly like any other score. There is no flag, no asterisk, and nothing for an admissions committee to weigh differently — because there is nothing for them to see. If a worry about how it would look is part of why you have not asked, that particular worry is unfounded.