Great Personal Statements for Law School,9780071453004

Great Personal Statements for Law School

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780071453004
ISBN10: 0071453008
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2006-01-05
Publisher(s): McGraw Hill
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Summary

Your grades are nearly perfect and your LSAT scores are stellar-but that's not enough to get into a top law school. You have to stand out from a crowd of superachievers, and the best way to do that is with a great personal statement.

Author Biography

Paul Bodine is the Senior Editor at Accepted.com, one of the oldest and most successful online admissions consulting services. His clients have consistently earned admission to such elite law schools as Harvard, NYU, Virginia, Duke, Northwestern, Cornell, Georgetown, and Vanderbilt.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments viii
Introduction ix
CHAPTER 1 GETTING STARTED 1(18)
Know Thy Audience
4(2)
The Admissions Party
6(1)
Finding Your Self-Marketing Handle
6(2)
Data-Mining Your Life
8(5)
Writing Your Personal Statement
13(4)
Revising and Editing
17(1)
Letting Go
18(1)
CHAPTER 2 GETTING PERSONAL: THE PERSONAL STATEMENT 19(24)
What Schools Ask
20(3)
Who Are You?: Diversity and Obstacles Overcome Topics
23(5)
Accomplishments, Strengths, and Interests
28(7)
Goals
35(8)
CHAPTER 3 FINISHING STRONG: SECONDARY ESSAYS AND WAIT-LIST LETTERS 43(20)
Are Optional Essays Optional?
44(9)
The Fine Art of Damage Control: Addenda
53(4)
Closing Arguments: Wait-List Letters
57(6)
CHAPTER 4 CREDIBLE ENTHUSIASM: LETTERS OF RECOMMENDATION 63(22)
What Do Recommendation Letters Do Anyway?
64(1)
How Long?
65(1)
How Many?
66(1)
Selecting Recommenders
67(1)
First Letter: Professor
67(2)
Second Letter: Professor or Employer
69(2)
Subsequent Letters
71(1)
Dean's Letters
71(1)
Approaching Recommenders
72(3)
Writing Your Own?
75(1)
Strategies for Recommendation Topics
75(10)
SAMPLE DOCUMENTS 85(60)
Personal Statement Outline
85(2)
Personal Statements
87(49)
Diversity Statement
136(2)
Addendum
138(1)
Transfer Essay
139(2)
Letter of Recommendation
141(3)
Wait-List Letter
144(1)
Parting Thoughts 145(1)
Bibliography 146

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