Final-ish draft, hard critiques welcome. Also, is my opening anecdote appropriate?
Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2016 2:39 pm
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.Babe-Loblaw wrote:The anecdote, or the whole thing? I don't really see myself being able to explain why I want to go to law school without explaining the cooperative stuff, given that I'm trying to do public interest work in affordable housing and community development. I was hoping the ridiculousness of the situation would add some humor since the last half is a little dry, but I also could just think it's funny because it happened to me. A lot of my better stories about my work in this area either require a lot of contextual knowledge about how housing cooperatives work to be understood or would be a violation of ethics to discuss, so it's kind of difficult to come up with something. Would it be better to just say the complex was covered in graffiti and not mention what it was depicting?tinafeyclone wrote:Just my opinion, but I think it's a pretty weird thing to send as your personal statement. Definitely change the anecdote. This statement really made me cringe.
The anecdote. Because the likelihood that the admissions officer reading your essay will be on the traditional side, I think it shows poor judgement to send something like this. I realize that it had an effect on your life, but I personally don't see how cleaning up obscene graffiti shows anything insightful about you, let alone demonstrates why a law school accepts you.Babe-Loblaw wrote:The anecdote, or the whole thing? I don't really see myself being able to explain why I want to go to law school without explaining the cooperative stuff, given that I'm trying to do public interest work in affordable housing and community development. I was hoping the ridiculousness of the situation would add some humor since the last half is a little dry, but I also could just think it's funny because it happened to me. A lot of my better stories about my work in this area either require a lot of contextual knowledge about how housing cooperatives work to be understood or would be a violation of ethics to discuss, so it's kind of difficult to come up with something. Would it be better to just say the complex was covered in graffiti and not mention what it was depicting?tinafeyclone wrote:Just my opinion, but I think it's a pretty weird thing to send as your personal statement. Definitely change the anecdote. This statement really made me cringe.