LSL Personal Statement Bank
- KENYADIGG1T
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LSL Personal Statement Bank
Hello LSL!
As one of the mods here, I figured it would be helpful for future 0Ls to have a repository of personal statements to look at and draw from. I encourage all who can post their personal statements to do so.
Please include
Application Cycle (e.g. 17-18)
Schools applied to
School chosen
K-JD or WE?
Other relevant info
I should note that this thread is NOT for asking others to read your PS. Posts asking for such will be deleted. Also, please 'spoiler' your personal statements.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions!
Best,
Ya Boi DIGG1T
As one of the mods here, I figured it would be helpful for future 0Ls to have a repository of personal statements to look at and draw from. I encourage all who can post their personal statements to do so.
Please include
Application Cycle (e.g. 17-18)
Schools applied to
School chosen
K-JD or WE?
Other relevant info
I should note that this thread is NOT for asking others to read your PS. Posts asking for such will be deleted. Also, please 'spoiler' your personal statements.
Looking forward to seeing your submissions!
Best,
Ya Boi DIGG1T
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Thanks for putting this together, Kenya! Here's my contribution.
Applied 2017-18
Applied H (accepted offer/requested one-year deferral), S, UChi, CLS, NYU, UVA, Mich, Duke, NU, Berk, UT (OOS). WL at UChi and held at CLS (I'm not a great interviewer tbh), withdrew from S before decision, accepted everywhere else.
173/3.78
3 years of WE
Applied 2017-18
Applied H (accepted offer/requested one-year deferral), S, UChi, CLS, NYU, UVA, Mich, Duke, NU, Berk, UT (OOS). WL at UChi and held at CLS (I'm not a great interviewer tbh), withdrew from S before decision, accepted everywhere else.
173/3.78
3 years of WE
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Application Cycle: 2017-2018
Schools applied to: HYS(accepted to HY, WL from SLS), CLS(Hamilton), NYU(Accepted), Michigan(Darrow), UVA(WL), Duke(Dean's Scholly, JD/LLM), GTown (Preferred WL)
School chosen: N/A
K-JD or WE? ~1.5yr WE
Other relevant info: non-URM minority
Schools applied to: HYS(accepted to HY, WL from SLS), CLS(Hamilton), NYU(Accepted), Michigan(Darrow), UVA(WL), Duke(Dean's Scholly, JD/LLM), GTown (Preferred WL)
School chosen: N/A
K-JD or WE? ~1.5yr WE
Other relevant info: non-URM minority
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Re: LSL Personal Statement Bank
I’ll post my ps about sitting in the hot tub at the gym when the cycle is over. Only used it for a few schools.
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My PS is a little too identifying for me to feel comfortable sharing publicly, but just wanted to say that I've loved the ones on here so far! Ya'll are seriously incredible, accomplished people and great writers.
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Applied: 2017-18
Applied To: Yale (Accepted offer + requested to defer until 2019), Harvard (W), Stanford (W), Columbia (W), UChi (W), NYU (W), Penn (W), Mich (W), Berk (W), Duke (W).
WE(ish): Current PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Stats: 4.0/16x/Unicorn softs + recs
Applied To: Yale (Accepted offer + requested to defer until 2019), Harvard (W), Stanford (W), Columbia (W), UChi (W), NYU (W), Penn (W), Mich (W), Berk (W), Duke (W).
WE(ish): Current PhD Student, UC Berkeley
Stats: 4.0/16x/Unicorn softs + recs
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Cycle: 2011-12
Stats: 3.86/177
Softs: Excellent recommendations but almost no softs to speak of
WE: K-JD
Applied To: Yale (R), Stanford (A), Harvard (W), Chicago (W), Columbia (A), NYU (A), Michigan (W), Penn (W), UVA (W), Berkeley (A), NU (A), Duke (A)
Stats: 3.86/177
Softs: Excellent recommendations but almost no softs to speak of
WE: K-JD
Applied To: Yale (R), Stanford (A), Harvard (W), Chicago (W), Columbia (A), NYU (A), Michigan (W), Penn (W), UVA (W), Berkeley (A), NU (A), Duke (A)
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Cycle: 2017-18
Stats: 173/2.52
WE: 10+ years, mostly in insurance
Softs: Management/executive level nonprofit experience, and as the PS shows, farming and living off-grid
Applied to: Columbia (R), Penn (R), Michigan (R), UVA (W), Duke (R), Northwestern (W), Cornell (R), Texas (R), Vanderbilt (W), Wash U (A/$0), Minnesota (W), Emory (PW), Alabama (W), ASU (A/$$), W&L (A/$$$), Georgia (W), Wake Forest (W), South Carolina (A/$$)
Decision: W&L
Notes: This personal statement spends very little time addressing the question of "Why Law?" - this was a deliberate choice, and a gamble. As a super splitter, I wanted to make sure my PS was something that would stand out, and wagered that many folks would be flooding admissions offices with "Why I want to be a lawyer" essays. As we've heard from Spivey, the answer to that question carried a higher value this year, and I suspect this led to some waitlists I might otherwise have seen as acceptances. I'm happy with my result, but wanted to clarify that this PS is not a shining example for future applicants. It was good enough, but could have been much better if I had chosen a strategy in line with the admissions cycle this year.
Stats: 173/2.52
WE: 10+ years, mostly in insurance
Softs: Management/executive level nonprofit experience, and as the PS shows, farming and living off-grid
Applied to: Columbia (R), Penn (R), Michigan (R), UVA (W), Duke (R), Northwestern (W), Cornell (R), Texas (R), Vanderbilt (W), Wash U (A/$0), Minnesota (W), Emory (PW), Alabama (W), ASU (A/$$), W&L (A/$$$), Georgia (W), Wake Forest (W), South Carolina (A/$$)
Decision: W&L
Notes: This personal statement spends very little time addressing the question of "Why Law?" - this was a deliberate choice, and a gamble. As a super splitter, I wanted to make sure my PS was something that would stand out, and wagered that many folks would be flooding admissions offices with "Why I want to be a lawyer" essays. As we've heard from Spivey, the answer to that question carried a higher value this year, and I suspect this led to some waitlists I might otherwise have seen as acceptances. I'm happy with my result, but wanted to clarify that this PS is not a shining example for future applicants. It was good enough, but could have been much better if I had chosen a strategy in line with the admissions cycle this year.
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