. Forum

[Its the gel man]

Thanks again.

[Its the gel man]

bump

[CanadianWolf]

Your eight paragraph essay contains two paragraphs of material that have very little relevance to your quest for admission to law school. Bluntly speaking, this is more of a high school "what I did over the summer" essay than it is a personal statement for an intellectually demanding graduate school.

[verklempt]

Seems as though you could turn the internship experience into a PS that demonstrated your skills and interpersonal abilities. I agree with CW that most of the PS here is irrelevant, hard to follow, and not material to the core of the PS. That's your back story -- don't need to include it, and if the only reason you volunteered is that you felt guilty about an offhand question posed a year earlier -- probably best not to mention it.

[LSATclincher]

The beginning anecdote is too long. I'd delete it. I agree w/ Canadianwolf in that the PS did not have a professional feel. I think it's ok to stick w/ an international law topic, though. I'm against a PS appeasing the law school masses except when discussing a few "trendy" topics: international law (namely spanish), an African American breaking from tradition, and a LGBT story.

But if this is going to be your PS, make sure you don't send it to conservative schools. It's too risky.

[Its the gel man]

Thanks for the great comments. And now, back to work.