Telling Your Story: Strike Duplicative Statements
A personal statement is really no more than telling a story—one that illuminates the “you” a law school would be lucky to have in its student body. In this series, “Telling Your Story,” jdMission Senior Consultant Mary Adkins discusses how elements of storytelling can—and should—be applied to your personal statement. Here is a tip that I give myself all the time: Avoid using two sentences that essentially say the same thing. Here is the reason I have…