PLEASE HELPP. Ohio Northern Personal Statement
Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:54 pm
Discuss items of interest from my personal, educational, or cultural background that distinguishes me as a potential law student.
I still remember my first law school class. I participated and was even acknowledged by the professor. I distinctly remember raising my hand in the middle of class and trying to explain a certain aspect of the discussed topic. Only my experience was not as an enrolled student but rather as the son of an enrolled student. I was seven and my mother was attending classes at the Oklahoma City School of Law and allowed me to come with her. Financial turbulence led to my attendance that day as we could not afford daycare at the time. It began the first of many times I would attend law related events with my mother and with it inspire me to apply to law school after college. My appreciation for the study of law would carry into my adult life, leading to my formal request for admission to Ohio Northern University to enroll in the Claude W. Pettit College of Law.
My desire to attend law school began with my role model. My mother became my role model for more than the typical reasons. She balanced raising three kids on her own while earning her JD. She would go on to earn her LLM in business and taxation at Capital Law School after graduation. It took growing up and experiencing the down side of life to realize what my mother gave up to raise me right. The sacrifices she made would leave a lasting impact in helping me develop my values and define what it means to be strong in the face of adversity. My life has been filled with experiences and moments that have shaped who I am and what I value, but not without a price. During my junior and senior years, my mother was hospitalized for diabetes and severe liver disease. Seeing my role model, my motivation, my mother in that critical state convinced me to not let life slip by me, but to grow as a student, a son and a person. It was these difficult times from which I would emerge stronger than ever. Through this adversity, my desire to change the course of my life began when I saw how much potential my mother had to succeed in the field of law, only to be taken from her in a battle she was losing. This prompted me to assume personal responsibility and seek a more mature, academic based lifestyle. I now understand the rigor of law schools and have chosen a course in life that helps exemplify my personal qualities so that I may utilize them as a successful law student seeking to make a substantial impact in society.
I now seek out leadership roles where I can best implement my problem solving skills. During my leadership experience at the Princeton Review, our team faced a major organizational problem. We were responsible for covering one of the largest universities in the country to actively attract students to the company. In order to increase efficiency and expand our efforts in marketing, I personally took it upon myself to research and organize a comprehensive list that detailed prep-test programs and their connections with student organizations and subject-specific buildings on campus, which I sent to my supervisor. I viewed my actions as a calling to improve my workplace and the people around me. I view my interest in law in the same frame of mind, as a calling to benefit the legal workplace and the people within the community.
After I had briefly toured the beautiful campus while visiting a friend of mine, I knew ONU would be my top choice for me. Beyond your impressive alumni, the programs offered within the school are desirable opportunities. I have a vested interest in joining ONU’s Law Review, Moot Court and the Pro Bono and Public Interest programs because they are relevant to my goals as a juris doctor prospect. I also wish to give back to society and this goal The Pro Bono and Public Interest Programs are two programs I am heavily interested in. I have a newfound interest to better my community, in return for my community giving so much to me.
I believe the duration of my college experience, though seemingly lackadaisical on paper, was in fact a turning point in my life that I embrace and plan to implement in my career. What seems like a day and night transition, I see as an unequivocal sense of maturation and newfound motivation that I am certain will benefit me both as a student at your law school and as an attorney here in the great state of Ohio. From the clinical programs in criminal law and government to the more than impressive staff and alumni, I see myself not only succeeding but also making a difference in Ada and where my future in practicing law takes me next.
I still remember my first law school class. I participated and was even acknowledged by the professor. I distinctly remember raising my hand in the middle of class and trying to explain a certain aspect of the discussed topic. Only my experience was not as an enrolled student but rather as the son of an enrolled student. I was seven and my mother was attending classes at the Oklahoma City School of Law and allowed me to come with her. Financial turbulence led to my attendance that day as we could not afford daycare at the time. It began the first of many times I would attend law related events with my mother and with it inspire me to apply to law school after college. My appreciation for the study of law would carry into my adult life, leading to my formal request for admission to Ohio Northern University to enroll in the Claude W. Pettit College of Law.
My desire to attend law school began with my role model. My mother became my role model for more than the typical reasons. She balanced raising three kids on her own while earning her JD. She would go on to earn her LLM in business and taxation at Capital Law School after graduation. It took growing up and experiencing the down side of life to realize what my mother gave up to raise me right. The sacrifices she made would leave a lasting impact in helping me develop my values and define what it means to be strong in the face of adversity. My life has been filled with experiences and moments that have shaped who I am and what I value, but not without a price. During my junior and senior years, my mother was hospitalized for diabetes and severe liver disease. Seeing my role model, my motivation, my mother in that critical state convinced me to not let life slip by me, but to grow as a student, a son and a person. It was these difficult times from which I would emerge stronger than ever. Through this adversity, my desire to change the course of my life began when I saw how much potential my mother had to succeed in the field of law, only to be taken from her in a battle she was losing. This prompted me to assume personal responsibility and seek a more mature, academic based lifestyle. I now understand the rigor of law schools and have chosen a course in life that helps exemplify my personal qualities so that I may utilize them as a successful law student seeking to make a substantial impact in society.
I now seek out leadership roles where I can best implement my problem solving skills. During my leadership experience at the Princeton Review, our team faced a major organizational problem. We were responsible for covering one of the largest universities in the country to actively attract students to the company. In order to increase efficiency and expand our efforts in marketing, I personally took it upon myself to research and organize a comprehensive list that detailed prep-test programs and their connections with student organizations and subject-specific buildings on campus, which I sent to my supervisor. I viewed my actions as a calling to improve my workplace and the people around me. I view my interest in law in the same frame of mind, as a calling to benefit the legal workplace and the people within the community.
After I had briefly toured the beautiful campus while visiting a friend of mine, I knew ONU would be my top choice for me. Beyond your impressive alumni, the programs offered within the school are desirable opportunities. I have a vested interest in joining ONU’s Law Review, Moot Court and the Pro Bono and Public Interest programs because they are relevant to my goals as a juris doctor prospect. I also wish to give back to society and this goal The Pro Bono and Public Interest Programs are two programs I am heavily interested in. I have a newfound interest to better my community, in return for my community giving so much to me.
I believe the duration of my college experience, though seemingly lackadaisical on paper, was in fact a turning point in my life that I embrace and plan to implement in my career. What seems like a day and night transition, I see as an unequivocal sense of maturation and newfound motivation that I am certain will benefit me both as a student at your law school and as an attorney here in the great state of Ohio. From the clinical programs in criminal law and government to the more than impressive staff and alumni, I see myself not only succeeding but also making a difference in Ada and where my future in practicing law takes me next.