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CoastGuardVeteran Featured

LSAT 171 · GPA 3.00 · 2023–24 cycle

Attending Cornell University

…I performed. CREATING YOUR “CORE” DOCUMENTS The personal statement (PS), diversity statement (DS), resume (CV), and addenda. I was given these three pieces of advice by a mentor, and they proved the most valuable I received in the process of creating core documents: a) Don’t overlap the content in your core…

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SkramzStrongestLawyer

LSAT 174 · GPA 3.31 · 2024–25 cycle

Attending Georgetown University

…Since URM status is now only discernible through your diversity statement, I’m not so sure. Please just do everything in your power to get a good GPA and LSAT. With really good stats you have the license to be more boring on your apps. Not so with me! If you are a KJD with similar stats to me, you are probably not…

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DingDongTheWitchIsDead

LSAT 174 · GPA 3.41 · 2022–23 cycle

Attending University of Georgia

…early and chip away at everything. I wrote my personal statement and diversity statement over 4 total months. I had 6 drafts of different topics and waited a week then reread them all and went forward with the topic that I liked the most. By the end of my writing process, I had both essays nearly memorized. I did…

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lawqueen629

LSAT 169 · GPA 3.11 · 2023–24 cycle

Attending Georgetown University

…law or public service, I marked with an asterisk. Personal Statement:- I am a creative writer and I believe it played to my advantage when writing my PS. I shared a very vivid story about my family and I growing up homeless and impoverished and how these experiences alongside my work in juvenile justice is what…

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IcyMarvelousFerret

LSAT 157 · GPA 3.02 · 2022–23 cycle

Attending University of Georgia

…me and my journey in the first part of my PS. wrote a diversity statement gpa and lsat addenda also made up for my undergrad GPA with a 3.62 grad GPA double dawg, got my bachelor’s degree from uga in political science and currently finishing my grad degree from uga. this might have helped bc it showed that I clearly…

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Elle-MS-Woods

LSAT 169 · GPA 3.33 · 2021–22 cycle

Attending University of Georgia

…materials (tenacity, grit, never giving up, etc.) Wrote diversity statement on my climb out of poverty, starting with my first job at 15 washing dishes for $5.25 an hour (yes, I’m old enough to have worked when that was the federal minimum wage). From a rural fringe town, population sub-2500, in the Deep South. Only…