Not writing DS= Death sentence for URM? Forum

[bk1]

It varies, school-by-school, case-by-case.

Do you know of any cases specifically?

[bk1]

This is unrelated to the OP's situation, but shouldn't it be noted that certain schools do not differentiate between different Hispanics and thus PR/MX cannot expect a normal URM boost unless they talk about it in their DS?

I've wondered about this. Do those schools not give a URM boost to any Hispanics, or do they give one to all of them? I have yet to figure out a clear answer to that question.

Ironically enough I think I stumbled upon the answer while updating my LSAC account's address. Under the ethnicity portion there is a box to checkmark whether you want to send this information to law schools or not. This pretty much answers my question.

[DavidYurman85]

don't force the ds.

if you can cover ds content in your ps and still demonstrate why you're going to law school, then i wouldn't write a ds.

[20121109]

Hold on; two of our most successful URM applicants didn't write Diversity Statements?

LOL...Vanwinkle and I are just that sexy <3