Personal Statement

The personal statement is often a crucial and decisive part of your application package. As related by Eileen Doyle Crane of UVSC:

An effective essay is one that shows who the applicant is through a variety of stories that illustrate, without bragging or forcing the reader to wade through self-enhancing superlatives, who the candidate is [from NAPLA Notes, Summer 2007].

To learn more about writing a personal statement, check out the pages below:

• Personal Statement Warm-up Exercises
• Guidelines for Writing Your Personal Statement
• The Personal Statement: One Person's View
  [by Collins Byrd , Assistant Dean of Admissions, University of Iowa College of Law]