One Specific Principle (LAW)
Do you know the one specific principle that can take an “average” law school application and make it outstanding, even riveting, to the people who read it? It’s this.
In the personal essays, use the space to create a flawlessly well-reasoned ARGUMENT in your own behalf.
I use the word “argument,” but of course I would never want you to sound ARGUMENTATIVE. “Argument” just means that when someone gets through reading your personal statement, their natural reaction is to say: “Oh my gosh. This makes absolutely perfect sense. I don’t even have a question about this. It’s completely clear to me that this person should be in law school.” If the essay you have now is not accomplishing this, you have missed the boat.
This principle, of using the science of argument to write something convincing and compelling, can help to clarify for you exactly what you should be writing about in the personal statement. It can guide decisions on what you should emphasize and what you should downplay. And it can help you to explain clearly and with confidence (not arrogance) why you should be studying law. Let’s call it “treating yourself as your own first client.”
So how do you create a powerful, extremely well-reasoned argument in your own behalf?
You start by searching your soul for what are the most compelling reasons you, (not 100 other people) should be in law school. Then you organize and express that information using the exact same principles that a lawyer uses when arguing a case in court. It’s by using these very old, time-tested principles that we can get a reader to say: “Wow. This makes absolutely perfect sense.” Trouble is, they don’t ever teach you much about these principles in undergrad. You dealt with these principles a little bit on the logical reasoning section of the LSAT, but the LSAT arguments are only one paragraph. (The law school personal statement is 6 - 10 times longer and about 15 times more complex than that.) And the situation is made even more difficult by the fact that it’s just naturally hard to write a truly compelling argument about yourself.
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