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     - Make sure that they know that you were able to hold a full-time job while
going to school. Make sure that they know that you won any awards. Make sure that
they know that you were captain of a team. Let them know how you’ve overcome
obstacles, bad odds, or personal difficulties.
     - It is important to mention your work experience, or volunteer work that you
may have done or extracurricular activities if they relate to your field.

         2.6 Do’s and don’ts on how to write

       - Write simply, not in a flowery and complicated manner. Write in a
straightforward way. In other words don’t be subtle or cute. Write in a clear and
logical manner.
       - Most important of all, be specific, not vague. Don’t say – “My grades were
quite good’ but say ’I belonged to the top 5 % of my class’. Don’t say – ‘I am
interested in sports’. Say ‘I was captain of my hockey team’. Don’t say ‘I like
poetry’. Say ‘I did a study of Shakespeare’s sonnets and wrote a twelve typed page
bachelor’s degree dissertation on Imagery’. Don’t say – ‘I want to be a Supreme
Court Judge, that is why I want to go to law school’. Say things like ‘I was an
apprentice in a court’ or ‘I often went with my father to the courts to listen to cases’
or ‘I wrote a legal column for a school newspaper’. That is being specific.




         2.7 Getting started by brainstorming

    So how do you show that you are a unique, qualified individual? Here’s a
sample brainstorming list:

     -    won a poetry contest;
     -    got A’s in Physics and Mathematics;
     -    captain of volleyball team;
     -    worked after school in shop;
     -    served in the military;
     -    worked with a social welfare group on a slum project;
     -    went to Yakutzk for six months to stay with an aunt because she was sick;
     -    climbed Mount Everest;

Now make a list of your own, taking the following questions into consideration.

     1) What’s special about you? Why are you different from the other 1,000 people
applying?
     2) What hardships or obstacles - personal and professional - have you overcome
in your life?


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