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bagelofthedamnd

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Why X Essays

Post by bagelofthedamnd » Fri Nov 18, 2016 1:34 am

I have 168 LSAT and 3.7 GPA and was planning to blanket the T-16 with applications. I’m between 25th and 50th percentile for most of those schools so I was thinking about sending Why X essays. Which schools would it be worthwhile to send them to? Everywhere?
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Post by cavalier1138 » Fri Nov 18, 2016 6:16 am

It's only worth sending them to the schools that you really want to go to. But if you send "Why X" essays to every school, I guarantee that your essay will be so generic that it won't provide the already-minimal bump that it could.
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Post by galadriel3019 » Fri Nov 18, 2016 8:30 am

Another option is to tailor a small bit of your personal statement to each school. The last paragraph of each of mine tied to the school. While this isn't something you have to do, I just thought it was helpful to concisely get my point across. Doing a ton of why x essays felt a bit contrived to me, one page worth of stuff can sometimes be forced.
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