Law School Application Essays

Being born in a family full of Doctors and Engineers, I also had a dream in my childhood of doing something different for myself. Though, I studied sciences in my O-Levels and with quite a lot of hard work I was able to achieve good…

I am attracted to the subject of law as I believe that it will provide me with an interesting, intellectually challenging career. It is the diversity provided by the different types of law in areas such as, family, criminal or corporate law that I find…

I wish to study law as I am deeply fascinated by the different aspects of the criminal justice system, which defines and shapes the human condition. In a recent article, titled ‘Coercive Control: An Offence but Not a Defence: R v Challen”, the article explained…

I am a person keen on challenges. Law will provide me with the kind of constant challenge I have always craved, while helping me to improve my analytical, practical & communication skills. Also my concern and curiosity about society and its people inspired me to…

The most unforgettable moments of my life was earning my Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy even though my early adulthood pointed in the wrong direction, beginning with leaving my father’s house at five and the murder of my grandpa-the only man to have raised me as…

I had written and fully intended to submit one of “those” personal statements: the personal statement that says how noble the legal profession is, that goes on and on about the importance of selfless attorneys fighting injustice, and the one where I describe my father’s…

As an undergraduate, I was fortunate to have professors who pushed me to blend abstract principles with real world experience. I hope to continue this mixing of education and life through New England’s clinical programs, because I know that direct interaction with clients and communities…

Recently, I found myself seventy-two meters underground, in a North Korean invasion tunnel discovered not fifty kilometers from Seoul. The tunnel is wide enough for ten thousand armed soldiers to pass through in an hour, but not so high that someone tall needn’t occasionally stoop….

In Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, this Court struck down a Texas law that rendered it illegal for a woman to abort a pregnancy unless her life was in danger. This Court granted complete freedom of choice to the woman in her first trimester…

Spoiled Rotten Admitting that you’re a spoiled child isn’t easy. I was the kind of person in high school who probably spent too much time putting on my makeup and picking out my clothes, and I was the kind of person who worried a lot…