Spivey Consulting Example Personal Statements
Eight examples of great law school personal statements.
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Personal Statements
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 post09 Jul 2024
Podcast: Law School Personal Statement Deep Dive—Advice from Former Admissions Officers
This episode dives deep into the law school personal statement, discussing the brainstorming and topic selection process, how to structure a personal statement, writing tips, broad-level traits of A+ personal statements, common mistakes, and more.
Read full post24 Sep 2022
Podcast: What It's Like Applying to Law School, Part 1
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Anna Hicks-Jaco speaks with an applicant from Reddit! They talk about the LSAT, personal statements, letters of recommendation, resumes, optional essays, and more.
Read full post15 Aug 2022
Podcast: Law School Admissions AMA with Mike Spivey & Dave Killoran (Part 2)
In this episode of Status Check with Spivey, Mike and Dave answer more questions from the Law School Admissions Reddit!
Read full post17 May 2022
Video: How to Choose a Law School Personal Statement Topic
Apart from your LSAT score and your undergraduate GPA, the personal statement is often the most important component of your law school application. Step one is choosing your topic—but how do you determine what the best topic is for you?
Read full post05 Aug 2021
Podcast: Law School Admissions 101
In this podcast, Spivey Consulting COO Anna Hicks goes over the basics of law school admissions for those who are at the beginning of their application process and don't know much about how it works yet.
Read full post23 Jul 2021
Podcast: Law School Admissions Q&A with Mike Spivey
In this podcast, Spivey Consulting COO Anna Hicks asks Mike some admissions questions from Reddit.
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 post28 Apr 2021
Podcast: Cycle Recap, No Rejections in the Hardest Admissions Cycle Ever
In this episode of the Status Check podcast, Mike interviews Reddit user lightningmcboops (who for the purposes of this podcast we're calling "Megan") from the law school admissions subreddit.
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