The law school personal statement is either a strength or a liability. It is seldom neutral.
It works in conjunction with a candidate's GPA and LSAT score, in most cases offering the only opportunity to introduce personality into an otherwise numbers driven application. Thus, your personal statement may be a strength or a liability, but there is no question that its impact may be the deciding factor between receiving an acceptance package from your dream school or having to consider other options.
This handbook is designed to help you develop an effective framework for structuring your statement without the fluff found in other guides. The goal was to keep it short enough to read in an afternoon, but content rich enough to return to throughout the writing process. It provides an easy to follow structure for writing your statement, general thematic guidelines, and three examples of personal statements that ensured their authors’ admission to the law school of their choice.
By picking up this handbook, you're taking the first step to writing a dynamic personal statement. Let's get started.
It works in conjunction with a candidate's GPA and LSAT score, in most cases offering the only opportunity to introduce personality into an otherwise numbers driven application. Thus, your personal statement may be a strength or a liability, but there is no question that its impact may be the deciding factor between receiving an acceptance package from your dream school or having to consider other options.
This handbook is designed to help you develop an effective framework for structuring your statement without the fluff found in other guides. The goal was to keep it short enough to read in an afternoon, but content rich enough to return to throughout the writing process. It provides an easy to follow structure for writing your statement, general thematic guidelines, and three examples of personal statements that ensured their authors’ admission to the law school of their choice.
By picking up this handbook, you're taking the first step to writing a dynamic personal statement. Let's get started.
