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Tag Archives: personal statement
5 Tips for Nailing that Law School Admissions Interview
You made it through the LSAT. You asked for letters of recommendation. You even summarized your entire life on a single page (your résumé) before being given two pages (double-spaced) to convince the school that you’re interested in law (personal statement).
And if that wasn’t bad enough, they now want to interview you.
As the number of people applying for law schools decreases, many law schools are adding interviews to the application process. Fewer law school applicants makes this both logistically possible and important to creating a well-rounded class, instead of just taking anyone with a high academic index (the combination of your LSAT score and GPA) and a semi-interesting tale to weave.
Harvard, Chicago, and Georgetown all require interviews.
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Mar 18, 2013 - 6:55 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school admissions, law school applicant, law school application, LSAT, lsat score, personal statement
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Uh, Where’s My Law School Letter of Recommendation?
“It’s in the mail.”
As undergrads, you know what that means: You blew your cash on alcohol and need an extra week or so to scrape funds together to cover your rent.
It’s the same when a professor tells you this for your law school letter of recommendation (they do, after all, drink very expensive Scotch).
While the LSAT is painful, the law school personal statement is time-consuming, and getting your transcripts in can be a hassle, there’s no part of the process that’s more frustrating than your letters of recommendation. Professors will promise the world before disappearing on an indefinite sabbatical. They’ll ask you to write the letter for them and then put off signing and sending it.
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Nov 19, 2012 - 6:33 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school admissions, law school applications, law school letters of recommendation, letter of recommendation, letters of recommendation, lsac, LSAT, personal statement
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How to Nail that Law School Videoconference Interview
Back when I was applying to law schools, Harvard started an on-the-phone interview program. Getting the call wasn’t an auto-admit, but the presumption seemed to be that you were going to get in. Being a student at BC, my friends found it hilarious to call me from 617 numbers and pretend to be Toby Stock, the admissions dean who was making those calls.
Believe me, I know how nerve-wracking that interview can be. Luckily, I didn’t say, “Nice try!” and hang up when Toby actually gave me a call.
Since it ran the interview process as a pilot program six years ago, Harvard Law School has continued to find its class in part by talking with the candidates over the phone. Recently, HLS announced it is expanding the program to include videoconferencing.
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Oct 17, 2012 - 6:45 pm - By Matt Shinners
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Write a Law School Personal Statement You Can Be Proud Of
Today on the LSAT blog: a guest post by Law School Expert Ann Levine, the former director of admissions for two ABA-approved law schools and the author of The Law School Admission Game: Play Like an Expert and The Law School Decision Game: A Playbook for Prospective Lawyers.
With the October LSAT soon to be a thing of the past, it’s almost time (and time if you took the June LSAT) to get your law school personal statement in tip-top shape. Here are some of my best tips for crafting a personal statement you can really be proud of.
I know you’re sitting down right now, trying to write the most brilliant, persuasive, powerful law school personal statement ever written, but your fingers are paralyzed on the keys.
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Sep 20, 2012 - 6:24 pm - By Contributing Writer
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Book Review: The Art of the Law School Personal Statement
We’ve written dozens of blog posts about law school personal statements here on our helpful little LSAT blog, and I know you’ve read every one of them. But believe it or not, there are other resources out there that can help you craft the perfect law school admissions essay.
One of them is a new e-book called The Art of the Law School Personal Statement, by Michelle Fabio. Fabio is the former About.com Guide to Law School who became a Personal Statement Artist. Her latest work checks in at 89 pages, but manages to cover all the bases of writing an effective law school personal statement.
The book’s first point is that students should never underestimate the importance of the law school personal statement. Reading a book about how to write a 2-page essay is a good start in taking it seriously.
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Aug 30, 2012 - 6:38 pm - By Hank
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These Law School Personal Statement Clichés are so Cliché
A while ago, I wrote an article listing some clichés to avoid on your personal statement. And yet I still read statements all the time that include these, and other, clichés.
To put it simply, do not include any cliché in your law school personal statement. If you can imagine it on a fortune cookie or greeting card, it has no place in your personal statement. No, you don’t get around this with the phrase, “I know it’s cliché, but…” Why not? Because that, itself, is a cliché.
Not all clichés are phrases repeated through the ages. Some are just topics that have been beaten to death, on top of not being that compelling to begin with. Let’s look at a few more.
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Aug 7, 2012 - 6:43 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school admissions, law school personal statement, personal statement, pre-law
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The Advantage of Military Service in Law School Admissions
“Keep your GPA up, and raise your LSAT score.”
That’s the advice most people ‘in the know’ will give you when asked how to improve your chances at getting into the law school of your dreams. And, for the most part, it’s true.
While the Letters of Recommendation, Personal Statement, and Résumé are all important factors in the admissions decision, they really don’t come into play unless you have the GPA and LSAT score to be considered in the first place.
Some law schools take a more holistic approach and will look at your application even if you don’t hit their numbers; these schools are usually just putting off rejecting you for a little while. It’s not that they don’t care about your background.
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Aug 1, 2012 - 6:02 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: law school, law school admissions, law school application, law school personal statement, letters of recommendation, LSAT, lsat score, personal statement
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6 Things You Can Do Now if Applying to Law School Next Year
Really? You’re already prepping for your law school applications for the 2013 school year? You realize some of your law school brethren are still getting out applications for 2012, right?
There’s a name for someone like you: Gunner. But you don’t care, because those people are just jealous, right?
Kidding aside, starting your law school application process this early is a great decision. While you won’t have a looming deadline to get you to finish that Personal Statement (which is something that motivates me like no other), you will have plenty of time to finish everything you need.
What are those things? What can you start now?
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Feb 21, 2012 - 6:56 pm - By Matt Shinners
Tags: applying to law school, june lsat, law school, law school admissions, lsac, LSAT, personal statement
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Things to Avoid on the Law School Personal Statement
Two pages. That’s how long you have to sum up your life in a personal statement. Law schools already have your GPA and LSAT, so those four years of school and three months of study are already covered, but what about everything else? Hell, it took 240 pages for whoever ghost-wrote ‘First Step 2 Forever’ to sum up Justin Bieber’s life; how can they expect you to get your story into 500 words?
Whether you’re just starting on your first draft or you’re trying to edit out those last few third-page sentences, here are three quick tips to ensure that the finished product is all killer, no filler.
Jan 12, 2011 - 12:57 am - By Matt Shinners
Tags: admissions, law school, personal statement
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