“Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” —Abraham Lincoln If you are starting your first year of law school, the last thing you may feel you need is more reading, so we’ll keep this short. Here are a few things we wish we’d …
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Is Law School Right for Me? Part 1
As you’ve been preparing for law school you may have had certain nagging questions in the back of your mind. Is all this effort really worth it? Am I even on the right track? How do I know if law school is right for me? Most law school applicants, if they’re entirely honest with themselves, …
Is Law School Right for Me? Part 2
One reason law school require a personal statement from each applicant is because they are looking for candidates with clear, compelling motives for going to law school. They hope to see motives genuine and strong enough to carry the candidate through law school and into a successful career. You might think it would be easy …
What Are Law Schools Really Looking For?
Try this exercise. Imagine the perfect law school applicant, the person every law school wants in their class. This person is a slam dunk for admission. If you were this person, getting in would be a cinch. Can you picture that person? Okay, now describe whom you see. In your mind, what is the perfect …
What Do Other People Write? – Ten Formulas for Formulaic Essays
Every year, we get asked over and over, “What do people usually write their law school personal statements about?” So we sat down and compiled a list of every type of law school personal statement we’d ever seen. We were surprised how easily we could fit about 99.9 percent of them into just ten basic …
A Few Good Ways to Spoil Your Law School Personal Statement
Sometimes the best way to figure out how to do something right is to see how it’s done wrong. There are countless ways that law school applicants muck up their personal statements, but almost all their mistakes stem from a few common misconceptions they have going in. If any of these beliefs are already lurking …
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