Teaching Abroad Forum

[hemm]

What does everyone think about teaching abroad as my PS topic? I've been teaching in Asia for 2 years now, and I want to write about it to show law schools that I haven't just been wasting my time (and I feel like it's pretty much the only marginally interesting thing in my application). But I know that traveling is a pretty cliche topic. I'm thinking about not focusing on being a foreign country at all, but rather just what I learned in the classroom. Opinions? Do you think adcoms get a lot of these sort of PS's?

[madcherrylimas]

I think that could work. That's what I wrote my PS on. I talked about my students, used my experience hiking in the Himalayas as a metaphor for my desire to work through things to understand them, and basically I guess I was pretty cliché -- except all these things had a big impact on me and were the reasons why I wanted to go to law school and thought I would be a good law student. Focus on these last two points in whatever statement you write; the most important thing is to answer these two questions well.

[Scott4LLM]

I think that teaching abroad is much different (and more appealing ps topic) than travelling. (especially semester at sea!) And if you've been doing it these past 2 years, they'd probably want to know about it anyway.