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List: Questions to help provoke Personal Statement Topics

PineapplePizzaSucksPineapplePizzaSucks Member
in Law School Admissions 534 karma

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!

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  • ChaimtheGreatChaimtheGreat Alum Member 🍌🍌
    1277 karma

    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.

  • studyingandrestudyingstudyingandrestudying Core Member
    5254 karma

    What's something you think is interesting? Why?

  • xenonhexafluoroxenonhexafluoro Alum Member
    428 karma

    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 BLeah M B Alum Member ⭐
    8392 karma

    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 RightCant Get Right Yearly + Live Member Sage ⭐ 🍌 7Sage Tutor
    27900 karma

    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?

  • MissChanandlerMissChanandler Alum Member Sage ⭐
    3256 karma

    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."

  • PineapplePizzaSucksPineapplePizzaSucks Member
    534 karma

    @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

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