Spivey Consulting Example Personal Statements
Eight examples of great law school personal statements.
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Examples
28 May 2025
15 Oct 2024
Podcast: Following a Law School Applicant Through the 2024-2025 Cycle (Part 1, Preparing Applications and the LSAT)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco introduces "John" (not his real name; u/Muvanji on Reddit), the applicant who we'll be following throughout his law school admissions cycle for 2024-2025.
Read full post17 May 2024
Examples of Letters of Recommendation
Here are three examples of law school letters of recommendation, two academic and one professional, two for regular 1L JD admissions and one for transfer admission.
Read full post08 Jan 2022
How to Cold Email: A Template
We wanted to provide a template for how to cold email someone, especially when there is an "ask" involved. You don't see many of these online, so here is one exchange below.
Read full post06 Jul 2021
Law School Personal Statement Example: First Draft vs. Final Draft
While brainstorming/topic selection is sometimes the most difficult component of the law school personal statement process, even the strongest and most differentiated of stories (as this one is) often need significant conversations with our clients as we work together putting words on paper.
Read full post19 Nov 2020
A Real Life Admissions Story
In the late 1990s, right before my academic career started, I went to business school to earn my MBA.
Read full post23 Oct 2020
Example of a Personal Statement that Covered Diversity/Adversity Themes
We wanted to post the below example of a case when a separate diversity statement was not necessary because the personal statement already covered those elements.
Read full post14 Jun 2019
Sample Resume
Below is an example of a well-executed resume — it is our COO's and while it has been updated since law school and can be used as a professional example, it also does include certain components that are strategically advantgeous for law school admissions. Anna was admitted to numerous top 10 law schools ands received a full tuition + merit scholarship at UVa Law School, before we lured her away full-time to Spivey Consulting.
Read full post21 Oct 2018
Sample Law School Application Video
For some of these you only have 1 or two minutes. There is no need to talk about resume items, this is your chance to be yourself. There's only one you applying to law school!
Read full post14 Jan 2018
An Actual Law School Application
Below is what a completely filled out law school applications looks like. And it is a great one — this person received multiple scholarship offers from elite schools and attended law school on a full ride. Please note that anything identifiable has obviously been changed and also note that it would be a very bad idea to copy any part of these essays and use for your own :) That said, I believe this is the first time anything like this has been posted online and we hope it can be both helpful an
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