…edit your resume to be legible to adcomms and hone your personal statement. Regarding personal statements: the narrative is even more important for us than it is for KJDs. Every admissions rep I spoke with said that nailing our “why law” is critical. But, if you’ve been in the workforce for a while, congratulations,…
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Admitted to St. John's University…options. Simple Advice: Spend a lot of time to craft your personal statement/application to show why you want to go to law school. ***This is SUPER important especially if you’re just an average LSAT applicant like me. *** Re read your personal statement. Then re-read it 20 more times over the course of a couple…
LGBTQ+ (nonbinary and queer/bisexual), first gen, low income background (wrote abt gender/sexuality stuff in a conservative workplace for my diversity statement). English, Italian, & German speaker. Latin/ancient Greek knower (can’t really “speak” these lol) I stuck with NYC area schools only because my partner’s…
…I wish I had used a consulting service to prepare my personal statement and maybe consider writing a diversity statement. As a non-URM, I felt it was a little tone-deaf to write a diversity statement, but I think I have a unique experience that could add to a student body. Second, a few schools sent application…
…work for multiple years. This culminated in a strong personal statement, resume, and letters of recommendation. While my results were slightly below my expectations, I think me making a cogent and purposeful argument for why I wanted to attend an NYC-based program helped tremendously during the scholarship…
…take your time with the lsat. No matter how good your personal statement and supplementals are, there are just some schools that are going to push you to one side or the other based on your lsat score. If you really want to go to a top law school then you need to really dig in hard on the lsat… with that being said,…
…important for your extracurriculars, work experience, and personal statement to all fit into a cohesive “why law?” narrative. this doesn’t mean that you should only do law-related extracurriculars, but it means that you need to find some common thread that runs through your life/experiences, and connect that…
…is on the lower end like mine, EVERYTHING matters. Your Personal statement, your recommendations, your why x essay, your supplementals, your work experience, everything. Factors that help are having a gpa that’s over their median, and not being too below in terms of LSAT (1-2 points max). My law mentor told me that…
Wrote personal statement on being first in my family to go to law school, wrote GPA addendum for first semester GPA weighing down average
Ask every school for fee waivers, apply early, and max out your LSAT and GPA. Your softs will not make you but they can break you, so make sure your personal statement, additional essays, and resume are coherent and typo-free. Other than that, you’re at the mercy of the admission cycle. Also, try not to constantly…
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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