…send your recommenders a packet with your personal statement, diversity statement, and resume so they can help add to your application’s narrative apply to a range of schools so you can negotiate shot your shoot!
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27 entries matching "diversity statement"
Admitted to Northwestern University…heavily into the Puerto Rican side of my roots for the Diversity Statement, especially the post-Hurricane Maria fallout and my family’s, and my own, efforts during the initial recovery phase. Anyone who is actually from Puerto Rico (and I mean born and raised, not just someone whose grandparent happens to be from…
Ivy undergrad Legal job after gradation Strong personal statement / diversity statement (I think this was the most important part !!!) Recs from professors I was very close with
…it paid off. My biggest pro was my GPA imo. In my personal statement and diversity statements I dug into being LGBT, working in a law firm as a legal assistant/paralegal, and my immigrant, Spanish-speaking girlfriend.
…I filled one of their prompts or used a more general Statement of Perspective (diversity statement). No clue if this helped or not, as I literally just applied, but it makes me feel as though I’ve sent in more comprehensive apps. Cheers!
…Associate Dean (all from grad school) Essays: personal statement about rethinking how I approach anti-sexual violence advocacy after doing my research, diversity statement about experience as an LGBTQ person with a disability, did optional essays/interviews when offered (but only did 1/2 short prompts for Stanford,…
…App Materials, Supplementals, & Context: Wrote “Why X” statements for CLS, NYU, UVA, Berkeley, Michigan, Duke; “core values” essay for Penn; two optionals for Stanford, “top 10” list for GULC.- Submitted a diversity statement to each school about a specific disability, as well as a brief GPA addendum (grades are…
…include a small paragraph why x at the end of my personal statement for every school except asu wrote optional essays for michigan (something about a group you have been a part of), gulc (top 10 list), and a pretty detailed fun fact for columbia (not an essay but in their app) sent diversity statement to nyu, bu,…
wrote diversity statement (LGBTQ, mentioned URM identity) for all schools, wrote why Xs for chicago, penn (core strengths), duke, UVA, berkeley, and michigan and integrated why X into PS for columbia and georgetown. STEM background and work experience in STEM field, had a pretty specific PS topic and clear goals,…
…the UChiacgo app and was rewarded accordingly. Personal Statement: I struggled with this. I felt like I had no significant life experiences that would help me stand out, and writing about the pandemic I knew was going to be overdone. So I was basically cornered into writing about pre-college, which I was concerned…
…I didn’t check my status checker too frequently. Wrote a Diversity Statement related to Athletics UR3: Duke went UR3 on 1/23 Penn went UR3 on 2/2 Accept: Vanderbilt didn’t give me any info until the acceptance. (Did not write anything extra for Vanderbilt) Nothing extra for UIUC W/L -> Accept: Northwestern 1st Kira,…
…post-grad fellowship, legal work experience, salient diversity statement I wrote Why Xs for UVA, Michigan, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, and Berkeley. Resources I swear by: 7Sage (both the LSAT materials and the $10 admissions course), PowerScore Podcast, Spivey Podcast/blog. Reddit is great for before you apply. But…
T2 softs and Ivy undergrad. Didn’t write Why X essays, but wrote other optional essays. Included a non-traditional diversity statement (meaning I didn’t talk about race) and a pretty wild academic addendum. I know for a fact that my essays and interviews were what got me very far in the admissions process- spend a…
*Low-income *Submitted diversity statement at each school about being low-income *Graduated in December and had relevant legal work experience in the spring *Received LSAC Fee Waiver GPA: 3.8 at time of applying, bumped to 3.85 after Fall 2020 semester. Sent updated resume in December 2020. LSAT: 170 (May 2020)…
Included diversity statement in addition to PS in all applications (non-URM). Yale: N/A Stanford: wrote optional essay. Harvard: N/A Columbia: N/A UChicago: N/A NYU: Applied to RTK, wrote optional scholarship essay. Rejected from RTK. UCBerkeley: Wrote why X. UPenn: N/A Northwestern: Did Kira. UMichigan: Wrote why…
Do what’s best for you. Write Why X for schools that you are actually interested in. Write a diversity statement if you have something to say!
…to display your reasoning and deducation skills Personal statement -> chance for you to bring out the person in all of these things. You want to go beyond the accomplishments and illustrate the person behind them - why did they do it? what core values do they have? What problems (business or social) do they want to…
Though my “softs” are individually T4, I have an outrageous amount of them; thus, on an overall basis, they may be considered T3. STEM Major. Wrote Diversity Statement for all schools. Wrote a tailored Why X for about 1/3 of applied schools (e.g., Berk, Penn, Duke, etc.) My advice is to focus on overshadowing your…
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