UPenn Supplementals
Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:23 am
So... I'd like to send a late app into Penn but first I've got to write one of the supplemental essays listed on the application. My problem is that I haven't got a clue what to write for any of the three. The topics are (1)diversity, (2)a work of art or literature that has inspired you to pursue a legal education, and (3)how a legal education will help you pursue your five year plan after graduation.
1. I am not diverse. I am a straight, white, middle class suburbanite. I am a quarter Lebanese, but you can't tell from looking at me and it hasn't really had much of an effect on my life.
2. This seems like a topic they came up with to bait people into writing hilarious essays. I honestly wasn't inspired to study law by a work of art or literature, so I feel like if I manufactured something it could only be terrible.
3. I haven't got a five year plan.
I can't be the only person who had difficulty figuring out what to write for this. What did other non-diverse, non-art-inspired applicants without five year plans write about?
1. I am not diverse. I am a straight, white, middle class suburbanite. I am a quarter Lebanese, but you can't tell from looking at me and it hasn't really had much of an effect on my life.
2. This seems like a topic they came up with to bait people into writing hilarious essays. I honestly wasn't inspired to study law by a work of art or literature, so I feel like if I manufactured something it could only be terrible.
3. I haven't got a five year plan.
I can't be the only person who had difficulty figuring out what to write for this. What did other non-diverse, non-art-inspired applicants without five year plans write about?