For Admitted Students

1. Activate your Syracuse University NETID
2. Submit your Seat Deposit(s) by due date(s) listed on your admissions letter.
3. Log into your University email account (cannot be completed until full deposit has been received).
4. Activate your Zoom account (cannot be completed until full deposit has been received).
5. Submit your photo for your student ID card (cannot be completed until full deposit has been received).
6. Submit Commitment to Register Form – available in late spring.
7. Submit Final Degree-Bearing Transcript by July 1st.
8. Submit the Residency Registration Form – available in late spring.
9. Submit the Biography Questionnaire – available in late spring.
10. Complete self-paced orientation modules – available after June 1st.
11. Attend the Mandatory online orientation session on Wednesday, July 8th at 7 – 8:30 pm Eastern – registration available soon
12. Course Registration will take place on Thursday, July 23, 2026 at 12pm Eastern
13. Attend your first Residency Class (Legal Foundations) in Syracuse, NY, Monday, August 10 2026 – Friday, August 14, 2026. See our Schedule and Hotel Information.

1. Apply for Financial Aid
2. Calculate your anticipated expenses with the online budget calculator
3. Apply to Outside Scholarship opportunities

1. Schedule a visit
2. Attend an Alumni Reception: admitted students are welcome to join our alumni at off-campus receptions
3. Learn About the JDi Curriculum
4. Learn About The Center for Disability Resources
5. Check your technology
6. Purchase required Books for Semester 1 (available in summer)
7. Course Schedules & Academic Calendar
8. Join the JDi incoming cohort groupme. It’s a great way to meet your classmates!

View Your Schedule & Account Holds

MySlice is Syracuse University’s online portal to critical information resources for applicants, students, faculty, and staff. You will need your NetID and password to log in.

• Incoming JDi students will enroll in 1L courses (Torts and Civil Procedure) in MySlice in late July. An introduction to enrolling on MySlice will be covered in the Online Orientation session.
• To check your class schedule, please login to MySlice, and from the student homepage click on the “My Class Schedule” tile (Select your desired term to view your schedule).
• To view your holds, please login to MySlice and click on the “My Holds” tile.  A list will appear stating what the hold is and what department to contact to resolve the issue.

Though we recommend you take the time to rest and spend time with family this summer, many of our incoming first year students have requested suggestions for summer reading that would help prepare them for law school this fall. It is that very enthusiasm and interest in the law that makes the first year of law school so exciting, and we look forward to sharing that enthusiasm with you. We have listed below a collection of books on the profession, jurisprudence, legal history and legal writing that may be of interest to you as you begin to think about the study of law. None of these books contains the “key” to success in your first year of law school. We offer most merely as suggestions for summer reading about law-related topics.

Highly Recommended

• Binder, David, Paul Bergman & Susan Price. Lawyers as Counselors (1990)
• Cappalli, Richard B. The American Common Law Method (1997)
• Fischl, Richard & Jeremy Paul. Getting to Maybe: How to Excel on Law School Exams (1999)
• Friedman, Barry & John C.P. Goldberg. Open Book: Succeeding on Exams from the First Day of Law School (2011)
• Gallacher, Ian. Coming to Law School: How to Prepare Yourself for the Next Three Years　(2010)
• Gidi & Weihofen, Legal Writing Style (2018)
• Irons, Peter. A People’s History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution (1999)
• Irons, Peter. The Courage of Their Convictions: Sixteen Americans Who Fought Their Way to the Supreme Court (1990)
• Levit, Nancy & Douglas O. Linder. The Happy Lawyer: Making a Good Life in the Law (2010)
• McKinney, Ruth Ann. Reading Like a Lawyer: Time Saving Strategies for Reading Law Like an Expert (2005)
• Sherwin, Richard K. When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture (2002)
• Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court (2008)

Recommended　

• Banks, Russell. The Sweet Hereafter (1992)
• Farnsworth, Edward. An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States (1983)
• Harrington, Mona. Woman Lawyers: Rewriting the Rules (1994)
• Hegland, Kenney. Introduction to the Study and Practice of Law (1983)
• Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird (1960)
• Levi, Edward H. An Introduction to Legal Reasoning (1949)
• Lewis, Anthony. Gideon’s Trumpet (1966)
• Lewis, Anthony. Make No Law (1992)
• Miller, Robert H. Law School Confidential: A Complete Guide to the Law School Experience By Students, For Students (2000)
• Stropus & Taylor. Bridging the Gap Between College and Law School (2001)