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sayruss11 wrote:My problem is that I am a 24 year old white female with little so called "diversity" so I decided to write about being the youngest in my family of all boys and how that has I dunno, made me diverse.

So don't write a diversity statement?

bk187 wrote:

sayruss11 wrote:My problem is that I am a 24 year old white female with little so called "diversity" so I decided to write about being the youngest in my family of all boys and how that has I dunno, made me diverse.

So don't write a diversity statement?

so its better to give the impression that I won't add absolutely anything new to the class? I said I don't have "so called diversity", the typical definition. I obviously have characteristics that make me different than other people.

sayruss11 wrote:so its better to give the impression that I won't add absolutely anything new to the class? I said I don't have "so called diversity", the typical definition. I obviously have characteristics that make me different than other people.

Everybody has characteristics that make them different than other people. That doesn't mean everybody should be out there writing DS's.

This reads more like a PS than a DS. Except it wouldn't be a very good PS, either.

what other options do you have for topics?

elonlawgrad wrote:what other options do you have for topics?

diversitywise? nothing
k point taken people thanks

sayruss11 wrote:

elonlawgrad wrote:what other options do you have for topics?

diversitywise? nothing
k point taken people thanks

in general...or is your only option to write about diversity?

well the prompt for the optional essay was something along the lines of discussing anything about your background that you believe would add diversity to the class population.
I admit it was a weak topic, but I thought if I really wanted admission to this school I should do all the optional essays. I read somewhere that just because you're not a URM doesn't mean you shouldn't bother to write a diversity statement. My PS isn't about any kind of diversity.

sayruss11 wrote:well the prompt for the optional essay was something along the lines of discussing anything about your background that you believe would add diversity to the class population.
I admit it was a weak topic, but I thought if I really wanted admission to this school I should do all the optional essays. I read somewhere that just because you're not a URM doesn't mean you shouldn't bother to write a diversity statement. My PS isn't about any kind of diversity.

Gotcha. I feel like I, too, had to write about this topic and I, too, had little world/culture experience, so I understand the difficulty. If you feel like you must submit a diversity statement and you don't feel like you have significant exposure to other cultures, religions, whatever have you, then I do believe you should write about something you are familiar with, i.e. I see why you chose to write about your family. Your statement doesn't have to be profound. I really don't think what you wrote was bad; but maybe try and dig a little deeper and see if you can come up with a different experience you may have had with someone from a different background and the challenges it presented and how you overcame xyz, and how that equates to the classroom and eventually the practice of law. (I have to admit I skimmed your post initially, so I don't remember if you did all of these things-you may have)

Thanks for your input!! I love when people are constructive and aren't just like "don't do this". I actually did live and teach English in Spain for a year, so I could definitely come up with some experience I had with someone of a different culture. I really want to submit something for the optional so I'm gonna start over.

sayruss11 wrote:Thanks for your input!! I love when people are constructive and aren't just like "don't do this". I actually did live and teach English in Spain for a year, so I could definitely come up with some experience I had with someone of a different culture. I really want to submit something for the optional so I'm gonna start over.

I would definitely try and write about that!

Sigh.

bk187 wrote:Sigh.

if only we could all be in on your infinite wisdom. sigh.

sayruss11 wrote:if only we could all be in on your infinite wisdom. sigh.

I'm sure "I've talked to some brown people" would make for a great DS.

bk187 wrote:

sayruss11 wrote:if only we could all be in on your infinite wisdom. sigh.

I'm sure "I've talked to some brown people" would make for a great DS.

hmmm I never realized that that was all I needed to write about to have an excellent DS, or that people of Spanish decent were "brown people". Thank you again for your wisdom!

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