Whatever You Do, Do Not Leave the Law School Optional Essay Blank!
Many law schools invite applicants to share more about themselves through an optional essay. For example, the University of Pennsylvania…
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Four Tips for Displaying Teamwork in Your Application Essays
Teamwork – and its close cousin leadership – are highly prized by graduate programs and universities. But if you haven’t…
Admissions Tip: Be Yourself!
Psst! How would you like to know the one thing that admissions committee members really want from applicants? Here it…
Seven Tips to Get You Off the Law School Waitlist
It’s the time of year for acceptances – and waitlists. What can you do if you are waitlisted at the…
Four Ways to Highlight Your Strengths in Your Application Essays
One of the most important pieces of advice you will ever learn regarding your personal statements and application essays is…
Writing an Essay Lead That Pops
How many times have you sampled the first few lines of a book and decided, “Nah, this isn’t for me”?…
Writing Your Career Goals Essay
Check out all the blog posts in this series: Identifying the Ingredients of a Winning Essay Finding a Theme for…
Finding a Theme for Your Statement of Purpose
Check out all the blog posts in this series: Identifying the Ingredients of a Winning Essay Finding a Theme for…
JD-Next: A Great Option for Law School Applicants [Episode 562]
Show Summary Are you planning to take the LSAT or the GRE before you apply to law school? Are you…
Starting Your Application Essay: Three Tips
If you haven’t yet read the other blog posts in this series, go ahead and check them out: Identifying the…
Revise and Polish Your Application Essays
Check out all the blog posts in this series: Identifying the Ingredients of a Winning Essay Finding a Theme for…
The Resilience Factor: How Flaws and Failures Can Strengthen Your Application
A speaker recently told a story about traveling in Asia, where he saw a stunning emerald. Enchanted by the stone’s…
Proving Character Traits in Your Essays
When you write an application essay or statement of purpose, you’re trying to accomplish two equally vital goals at once.…
So You Didn’t Get into Law School…
If you didn’t get into law school this year, it’s not too early to start planning a strategy for the…
Strategy for Writing an Accomplishment Essay (with examples)
Maybe you’re familiar with macros – the nutrients your body needs to function. Achieving the proper balance of macros leads…
Law School Letter of Recommendation Sample and Quick Guide
At this stage of the law school admissions process, you probably have Application Season Fatigue Syndrome. You just feel done.…
How to Get into the University of Chicago Law School [Episode 559]
Show Summary Ranked number three in U.S. News' most recent rankings, the law school at the University of Chicago is…
Get Off That Waitlist!
Landing on a school’s waitlist can be disappointing and even nerve-racking. As a result, waitlisted applicants sometimes let their anxiety…
Advice for Applicants: Moving from 2023 to 2024 [Episode 557]
Show Summary In this episode of Admissions Straight Talk, host Linda Abraham looks back at her predictions for the 2023/2024…
Three Ways Writing About Obstacles Strengthens Your Application Essays
Applicants love to write about their accomplishments, whether in a personal statement for graduate school or in a b-school essay that…