Hey all,
Somewhat bored today and taking it easy. If you need help with anything admissions-wise (or otherwise), reply here or PM me. I will try my best. About me: YLS 3L who will be practicing on East Coast after a pair of clerkships. Spent a lot of time on apps a few yrs ago and accumulated vast amount of now useless information. Happy to help anyone that needs help.
Let me know!
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SirArthurDayne
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jovianbean
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Re: Free help from bored YLS 3L
Thanks for the question. I don't think you necessarily have to mention definitive career plans at all in a PS. A lot of people have no idea what they are going to do post law school; or if they have an idea, that idea changes. Write about what you are actually interested in. If that is politics, then write about politics. You can stick to the substance of what you are interested in (and try to tie in law with this topic, as well as with your personal narrative) without mentioning what exactly you are definitely going to do after law school.
I think a good PS is an authentic PS--definitely do not try to go the "I want to be an attorney" route if that means saying anything in your PS that you don't really believe. A good PS is also one that gives the AdComm's a sense of your arc. In my PS I did not state that I was going to practice law at all--I mentioned a lot of the things I did prior to law school and tried to articulate how those things led me to appreciate law, and why those experiences made me want to learn more about law. I was intentionally oblique about future plans because I think it can be almost presumptuous to state in a PS that you are "going to" do X or Y in the law. Nobody really knows.
Tl;dr: stick with what you are passionate about without being too concrete about future plans; neither say "I am going to practice for a few years then become a politician" nor "I am going to practice law." Allow for uncertainty about your future while underscoring your true passion for things that relate to the legal sphere.
I think a good PS is an authentic PS--definitely do not try to go the "I want to be an attorney" route if that means saying anything in your PS that you don't really believe. A good PS is also one that gives the AdComm's a sense of your arc. In my PS I did not state that I was going to practice law at all--I mentioned a lot of the things I did prior to law school and tried to articulate how those things led me to appreciate law, and why those experiences made me want to learn more about law. I was intentionally oblique about future plans because I think it can be almost presumptuous to state in a PS that you are "going to" do X or Y in the law. Nobody really knows.
Tl;dr: stick with what you are passionate about without being too concrete about future plans; neither say "I am going to practice for a few years then become a politician" nor "I am going to practice law." Allow for uncertainty about your future while underscoring your true passion for things that relate to the legal sphere.
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