Get professional help. Ask the pre-law advisor, a professor, or the writing center staff to read your statement. The pre-law advisor will read your statement and give you feedback. Please call 392-1521 to make an appointment. Expunge any extra words.
Extra words can be harmful.
Be sure to make clear statements. Start with an outline, and then fill it in. Say everything, and then pare it down. Have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Grab the reader s attention, make them want to read the whole thing.