Items tagged with "Personal Statements"
There are 10 items tagged with "Personal Statements".
Statements, essays, resumes and addenda
The typical law school admission process does not include a personal interview. Instead, the admissions committees make decisions largely based on the documents you submit (along with your LSAT, transcript and letters of recommendation). Those documents may include, in addition to...
The typical law school admission process does not include a personal interview. Instead, the admissions committees make decisions largely based on the documents you submit (along with your LSAT, transcript and letters of recommendation). Those documents may include, in addition to...
Overview
The law school application process should ideally begin about a year and a half before you intend to start law school. At that time, you’d want to think about when to take the LSAT and how to prepare, who you’ll...
The law school application process should ideally begin about a year and a half before you intend to start law school. At that time, you’d want to think about when to take the LSAT and how to prepare, who you’ll...
Addenda
There are a handful of questions on almost every law school application that require the applicant to elaborate in an attached statement, or addendum, if s/he answers the question in the affirmative. The three most common addenda questions involve academic challenges,...
There are a handful of questions on almost every law school application that require the applicant to elaborate in an attached statement, or addendum, if s/he answers the question in the affirmative. The three most common addenda questions involve academic challenges,...
Optional essays
A handful of law schools offer students the opportunity to write so-called “optional” essays. For example, Northeastern University School of Law “encourages” (but does not require) you to answer one of the following questions: A) The School of Law’s Co-op...
A handful of law schools offer students the opportunity to write so-called “optional” essays. For example, Northeastern University School of Law “encourages” (but does not require) you to answer one of the following questions: A) The School of Law’s Co-op...
Personal Statements
After your LSAT and GPA, your personal statement is the most important part of your law school applications. You should plan to spend a significant amount of time on it. While every personal statement is, by its nature, different, there are a few...
After your LSAT and GPA, your personal statement is the most important part of your law school applications. You should plan to spend a significant amount of time on it. While every personal statement is, by its nature, different, there are a few...
Personal statement tip of the week: Don't argue
Really, this is several tips in one, and they all boil down to refraining from arguing. 1. Don’t use your personal statement to argue for your admission to X law school. That’s not what it’s for. Let...
Really, this is several tips in one, and they all boil down to refraining from arguing. 1. Don’t use your personal statement to argue for your admission to X law school. That’s not what it’s for. Let...
Guest post: The importance of a compelling personal statement
Rachel Morandi graduated from UMass in May 2010 with a B.A. in Journalism. She is now a first year student at Suffolk University Law School. I began the law school process during the middle of my junior year. Like...
Rachel Morandi graduated from UMass in May 2010 with a B.A. in Journalism. She is now a first year student at Suffolk University Law School. I began the law school process during the middle of my junior year. Like...
Don't be a law zombie: more good advice on personal statements
This time from Yale’s Office of Admissions, via the ABA journal. For all of Yale’s advice on personal statements, click over to their admissions blog. It is definitely worth clicking through and taking a few minutes to...
This time from Yale’s Office of Admissions, via the ABA journal. For all of Yale’s advice on personal statements, click over to their admissions blog. It is definitely worth clicking through and taking a few minutes to...
Write your own personal statement
I’d like to think this advice is unnecessary, but I also know how stressed out applicants get during the application process. Between the stress and all the misinformation (promoted in part by companies trying to make a profit...
I’d like to think this advice is unnecessary, but I also know how stressed out applicants get during the application process. Between the stress and all the misinformation (promoted in part by companies trying to make a profit...
Personal statements no one wants to read
... and that you don’t want to write. “Since early childhood, I have been an over-achieving perfectionist. Not content simply to excel at everything I have done, like be the president of the school paper and work for my...
... and that you don’t want to write. “Since early childhood, I have been an over-achieving perfectionist. Not content simply to excel at everything I have done, like be the president of the school paper and work for my...