Like a legal case, your law school personal statement must be persuasive, clear, succinct, and timely. You must carefully craft your personal statement to portray yourself as a candid, forthright, and thoughtful candidate. Your focus must be to give the admissions officers a sense of who you are as a person and as a potential student and graduate of law school.
Legal education demands superior communicative skills.
In your personal statement, you must effectively present your background, experiences, and ideas while demonstrating your character, breadth of knowledge, and intellectual maturity. Only your personal statement can convey the important facets of your school and work experience and the attractive aspects of your personality. Without nailing the essay, no matter how high your LSAT score is or how high your college GPA is, you will never be admitted to a top law school. With some law school admission rates as low as 3 percent, many qualified applicants, applicants with 3.9 GPAs and 170 LSATs, are rejected every year. More so than with undergraduate admissions, law schools absolutely require that you clearly demonstrate your ambition, confidence, maturity, passion, creativity, and career-focus.