Please submit a personal statement of two to three typewritten, double spaced pages that use at least 10pt font. You may choose to write about any topic(s) that you believe would be most helpful to the Admissions Committee as they review your application for admission. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following: your motivation for the study of law and entrance into the legal profession; professional goals you have established for yourself; leadership goals you have established for yourself; particular challenges and obstacles you have confronted and which you believe are relevant to your past academic performance and/or to your potential for success in law school.

The Moritz College of Law is committed to enrolling highly motivated individuals with strong academic potential who bring to the College a broad range of personal backgrounds and intellectual experiences. We seek to reflect the broad range of human experience to better equip our students for the incredible breadth and depth of American and global society. We seek to reflect these multiple perspectives, backgrounds, and interests in all facets of our community. Law students that are exposed to a breadth of perspectives are better prepared to engage in a pluralistic world, to succesfully navigate the legal profession and to uphold our professional obligations to promote justice and the rule of law. Social justice embodies the fair and equitable distribution of social, political, economic and other benefits and burdens to all individuals within a state or society. The legal profession is deeply committed to social justice and to the institutions, programs and movements that seek fairness, equity, inclusion and self determination for all of its members. Students that have demonstrated an interest in and commitment to social justice through employment, volunteer efforts, community engagement, or public service are eligible for consideration. In an essay, up to two pages, you may provide any information you believe will assist the College in enrolling a class that includes students for whom the pursuit of social justice motivates, in part, their desire to study law.

Please attach any supplemental information you feel would be helpful in the admissions process. Common supplemental addenda include, but are not limited to, explanations for unsatisfactory grades and/or LSAT scores, interruptions in education, or an explanation of a learning disability.

The Moritz College of Law requires each applicant to submit a résumé as part of the application process. Résumé should include present and past employment history, provide information regarding volunteer, service, and/or extracurricular activities (including sports) with which you have been involved in, and list any honors and/or awards you have received. If you have hobbies you enjoy, please feel free to include them. The resume can be a maximum of three pages long and we encourage more detail than less.

1. Were you ever on academic or disciplinary probation; have you ever been charged with, penalized for, or adjudicated guilty of a violation of a college or university honor code, student code of conduct, or TItle IX; or have you ever been suspended or dismissed from any educational institution?

2. Are there any academic or disciplinary charges from any educational institution pending against you?

3. Except for minor traffic and parking violations, have you been formally charged, cited, fined, posted bail, subject to a restraining order, or ordered to do community service for the violation of any law? This means the original charge and not the negotiated or plea bargained charge. This also includes juvenile, expunged, or dropped charges.

4. Are there any criminal charges pending against you?

5. Have you ever been the subject of a court martial hearing, dishonorably discharged from military service, or administratively separated from military service with other than an honorable discharge?

6. Have you ever been involuntarily separated from a job as a result of an accusation that involved dishonesty?

7. Have you ever been sued for a non-criminal act that was alleged to have been intentional? (e.g. invasion of privacy, fraud, assault, battery)

8. Have you ever been subject to disciplinary action by a professional association or State Licensing Board, or had a professional license suspended or revoked?