You're far from a lock at Yale or Harvard. They get enough applicants with your kind of numbers that they can easily reject you and keep going if they want to. Lots of people with "solid" numbers like yours get rejected from Y or H every year and go "what happened?"SandyC877 wrote:From what I can gather, the majority opinion is that PS can hurt you, but it can't help you.
+1 Schools/adcoms are pretty clear they don't like that stuff. It sounds like a cute idea, but why gamble everything you worked so hard to build up numberswise for a cute idea...cubswin wrote:I would bet at least some schools would ding you for it.
SandyC877 wrote:If I have a 3.9/176 and wrote an auto-biographical style poem as a PS, would it hurt my chances? How about if I copy and paste an entry of Wikipedia. Would schools care?
this would probably be better than a poem, unless the poem were in dactylic hexameter. iambic pentameter is too easy.jawsthegreat wrote:You could just write the link to this gif at the top of the page and thats it
Ooh, cool idea. They gave me a fee waiver; maybe I should write a PS to Regent about being gay.Desert Fox wrote:I wanted to see if I could write a PS that turned even Cooley off, but they don't even want a PS!
I also wanted to write a PS to Liberty about evolution, but the problem with a 2.8 GPA is that some really terrible schools might reject you just for the GPA. So I wouldn't know that it was because of the PS.
I was being polite.. I envisioned a typist type position at a collections firm; not a real paralegal position.paratactical wrote:It wouldn't be easy to get paralegal work. Several major firms ask on their application if you've ever been denied admittance to the bar or law school.reasonable_man wrote:SandyC877 wrote:If I have a 3.9/176 and wrote an auto-biographical style poem as a PS, would it hurt my chances? How about if I copy and paste an entry of Wikipedia. Would schools care?
Copy and paste the entry of wikipedia.. Just don't cite it... That way you get brought up on academic charges for plagiarism and eventually get fucked on the State C&F app for the bar.. That way you're not only a douche-bag; you're a heavily indebted douche-bag that is only qualified to work as a paralegal.
+1Kohinoor wrote:DO IT. The worst that can happen is that you remove yourself from the competition.SandyC877 wrote:im a firm believer that numbers speak for themselves, as evident in the incoming 1L class statics of all T-14s.kumba84 wrote:Not sure why you would do either of these things. You should just write a semi-interesting, non-plagiarized two page essay and not worry about it.
The adcoms do have some contact between each other. U of Chicago knew I got accepted to Northwestern ED almost as fast as I did.Sogui wrote:I basically have those numbers (3.9/176) and have a few fee-waivers I haven't acted upon yet. (Cornell and UVA)
I wouldn't mind being a test case if I weren't so averse to being a dick and screwing with adcomms at schools I don't really care about.
Having said that, I think it would be hilarious to do something ridiculous for a PS like writing one sentence, making 75%+ of the PS consist of famous quotes, etc... and still see which schools would still accept them, THERE WOULD BE SOME
Incorrect. What you say is true--until you do something blatantly stupid to mess it upSandyC877 wrote:im a firm believer that numbers speak for themselves, as evident in the incoming 1L class statics of all T-14s.kumba84 wrote:Not sure why you would do either of these things. You should just write a semi-interesting, non-plagiarized two page essay and not worry about it.
