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I am reapplying to schools this cycle with a higher LSAT score and am about to send in my app to a Top 30 school I was rejected from last time around. I have a 169 LSAT and a 3.36 GPA. According to LSN, their LSAT 75th and 26th percentiles are 166 and 162. GPA 75th and 25th are 3.76 and 3.41. So, I'm pretty much a major splitter.

I hadn't really considered writing an addendum about my GPA before, but lately I've been wondering if I should. The problem is, there isn't much of a pattern. I didn't have a horrible freshman year and then start making Dean's List every semester. I did have something personal happen early in my freshman year that I reacted to by engaging in some unhealthy habits. It impacted me for the rest of college because I was reacting to it for my first year, and then my senior year I finally decided to see a counselor which led to a lot of old emotions being dredged up again, which led to me having trouble focusing on studying. I don't really want to write about what happened, but I guess I could touch on it if it would be better than just submitting my transcript with no comment. I could also point to a couple of semesters when I took extra courses that ended up being too much for me to handle. What it really comes down to is that I often stretched myself too thin. I don't plan to do that in law school, but it doesn't seem like a very compelling addendum. HELP!

HWS08 wrote:I am reapplying to schools this cycle with a higher LSAT score and am about to send in my app to a Top 30 school I was rejected from last time around. I have a 169 LSAT and a 3.36 GPA. According to LSN, their LSAT 75th and 26th percentiles are 166 and 162. GPA 75th and 25th are 3.76 and 3.41. So, I'm pretty much a major splitter.

I hadn't really considered writing an addendum about my GPA before, but lately I've been wondering if I should. The problem is, there isn't much of a pattern. I didn't have a horrible freshman year and then start making Dean's List every semester. I did have something personal happen early in my freshman year that I reacted to by engaging in some unhealthy habits. It impacted me for the rest of college because I was reacting to it for my first year, and then my senior year I finally decided to see a counselor which led to a lot of old emotions being dredged up again, which led to me having trouble focusing on studying. I don't really want to write about what happened, but I guess I could touch on it if it would be better than just submitting my transcript with no comment. I could also point to a couple of semesters when I took extra courses that ended up being too much for me to handle. What it really comes down to is that I often stretched myself too thin. I don't plan to do that in law school, but it doesn't seem like a very compelling addendum. HELP!

It depends
are your worst terms those immediately following that personal event? are your bad habits a disorder or just bad studying habits?
if yes and the former, then yes
if no and or the latter, then no

if it cannot be compelling, it is not worth writing an addendum.