List: Questions to help provoke Personal Statement Topics

PineapplePizzaSucks

Hi everyone! I know that 7Sage has a list of questions on the admissions site that are meant to help you think up ideas for your personal statement, but I thought it might be helpful to have you all write questions that helped you determine your personal statement topic. Anything to get those writing juices flowing!

(If this kind of discussion thread exists, I couldn’t find it sorry! Please link and I will delete the post.)

ChaimtheGreat

What event would I not be the same without. For instance if I didn’t got to Chipotle yesterday I would be about the same person today. If I didn’t overcome X obstacle however, I may be a fundamentally different person. Just how I’m thinking of it.

studyingandrestudying

What's something you think is interesting? Why?

xenonhexafluoro

Is "Why do you want to be a lawyer?"/"Why do you want to go to law school?" not a good prompt to answer for personal statements?

Leah M B

For those of us older non-traditional students: why law school now?

How has your perspective on something changed? Why did it change?

Cant Get Right

We all have those stories that are "our stories." They're the ones that we can tell our friends over beer for the millionth time without them getting old, the ones we hope make us sound interesting on first dates, the ones that we just love to tell. What are those stories for you? Can any of them be reverse engineered to have deeper meaning?

MissChanandler

What makes you an interesting person? What is unique about you? I don't think that your personal statement has to be crazy deep or your whole life story or anything like that. One my professors always says: Your goal when writing your personal statement should be to make the reader think "I'd really like to have lunch with this person."

PineapplePizzaSucks

@xenonhexafluoro said:
Is "Why do you want to be a lawyer?"/"Why do you want to go to law school?" not a good prompt to answer for personal statements?

I’ve been told these arent great prompts and won’t lead to a particularly unique statement