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I guess I feel cheap spinning it like that, because what I was doing wasn't about me. It's a long story. I feel that it's an experience worth drawing attention to but it's not the theme of my life I wanted to be selling, but I think doing a personal statement on it would be the best way to get the most mileage out of it, so I will go that route.2014 wrote:Why don't you want to write your personal statement about it? That seems like a terrific topic.
If you could spin it into a reason you would add variety to the school you could put together a diversity statement, but it would be a stretch at best.
Honestly I would do the PS about it because you run the risk of them not appreciating an attached article or random addendum that adds to their workload.
What if I want to go to Berkeley? Which ideally I do. I could get a 175+ on the LSAT and I don't think it'd be enough to surmount the skewedness towards high GPA's. Would it be wrong to attach an addendum for schools with a 3.8+ median GPA such as Berkeley? If it was NU for example, that's fine, I have work experience that they look upon favorably to obviate the need for a GPA addendum, but Berkeley is kind of unrelenting about the range of GPA's they'll typically accept...merichard87 wrote:Having a 3.6 is not addendum worthy, dont waste your time. I also think it would be tacky to attach an article to your application. Have you thought about making it into a Diversity Statment if you refuse to make it into a PS.
Sometimes you just have to accept the numbers and roll the dice. A 3.6 gpa and 170+ LSAT will open plenty of doors.robotclubmember wrote:I guess I feel cheap spinning it like that, because what I was doing wasn't about me. It's a long story. I feel that it's an experience worth drawing attention to but it's not the theme of my life I wanted to be selling, but I think doing a personal statement on it would be the best way to get the most mileage out of it, so I will go that route.2014 wrote:Why don't you want to write your personal statement about it? That seems like a terrific topic.
If you could spin it into a reason you would add variety to the school you could put together a diversity statement, but it would be a stretch at best.
Honestly I would do the PS about it because you run the risk of them not appreciating an attached article or random addendum that adds to their workload.
What if I want to go to Berkeley? Which ideally I do. I could get a 175+ on the LSAT and I don't think it'd be enough to surmount the skewedness towards high GPA's. Would it be wrong to attach an addendum for schools with a 3.8+ median GPA such as Berkeley? If it was NU for example, that's fine, I have work experience that they look upon favorably to obviate the need for a GPA addendum, but Berkeley is kind of unrelenting about the range of GPA's they'll typically accept...merichard87 wrote:Having a 3.6 is not addendum worthy, dont waste your time. I also think it would be tacky to attach an article to your application. Have you thought about making it into a Diversity Statment if you refuse to make it into a PS.