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Heading in new direction. Thanks for the posts.
1st Draft Forum
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Ernert
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Re: 1st Daft
May want to edit the thread title lol.
I really think you should go in a different direction with your PS. Until the last paragraph, you don't really sell any qualities outside of yourself, and only talk about your academic interests. They can tell you have a background in hard sciences by the fact that it is on your resume. If you had a reason that was better than, "it came to me in church" that you really wanted to dig into (maybe a fascinating physics project you did or an event that resonated with you and made you realize that you wanted to pursue patent law), you could still talk about it. But as is, it basically reads as a summary of your academic courses with an extremely artificial feeling "Aha!" moment.
I don't mean to cheapen your discovery at all, and it very well may be that you will look back and always remember that day as the point when you chose your future path, but it doesn't make for a very interesting story.
Overall, remember that your goal is to sell yourself as an individual and show qualities outside of what is immediately noticeable through your numbers/resume and as of now, that doesn't seem to be happening.
I really think you should go in a different direction with your PS. Until the last paragraph, you don't really sell any qualities outside of yourself, and only talk about your academic interests. They can tell you have a background in hard sciences by the fact that it is on your resume. If you had a reason that was better than, "it came to me in church" that you really wanted to dig into (maybe a fascinating physics project you did or an event that resonated with you and made you realize that you wanted to pursue patent law), you could still talk about it. But as is, it basically reads as a summary of your academic courses with an extremely artificial feeling "Aha!" moment.
I don't mean to cheapen your discovery at all, and it very well may be that you will look back and always remember that day as the point when you chose your future path, but it doesn't make for a very interesting story.
Overall, remember that your goal is to sell yourself as an individual and show qualities outside of what is immediately noticeable through your numbers/resume and as of now, that doesn't seem to be happening.
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BigJohnso
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Re: 1st Draft
lol sorry about the title.
Yeah I was thinking along similar lines. I just wrote this up in 45 minutes as what first came to mind, because it really did come to me in church. Really the reason why patent law resonated is that I have a passion for figuring out and explaining how things work. This is what people in patent prosecution do. Ill head in another direction
Yeah I was thinking along similar lines. I just wrote this up in 45 minutes as what first came to mind, because it really did come to me in church. Really the reason why patent law resonated is that I have a passion for figuring out and explaining how things work. This is what people in patent prosecution do. Ill head in another direction
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luxxe
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Re: 1st Draft
ia with the above. And, honestly, I wouldn't mention the church "revelation" - I think some adcomms could read it wrong/not be very receptive to it.
I think talking about your experience in research and then why that wasn't completely fulfilling, and why you would find applying that knowledge to law fulfilling, could work. I would do it in a much more direct way (don't trace your major changes), though.
I think talking about your experience in research and then why that wasn't completely fulfilling, and why you would find applying that knowledge to law fulfilling, could work. I would do it in a much more direct way (don't trace your major changes), though.
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