three tips for applying to law schools

I'm a law school student, three tips for applying to law school and the cycle itself is getting a lot more competitive. And I'm just wanting to help you guys. So here are some tips and tricks for when you are applying for this cycle, next cycle, whenever it is. This may sound self-explanatory, but usually you have to submit a personal statement, which is your main essay. It's literally just like who you are, why you want to attend law school, like the whole gist of your life story packed into this very dense short essay. The law school application, you don't have much to show. And what I mean by this is that you're very limited to what you can submit to law schools. So you want to show them all the sides of yourself that you can as an applicant and the best way to do that is through your essays. So the sides of your personal statement, make sure that you write your supplemental and optional essays. They're not optional, but I don't think they're optional because it's such a good way for you to showcase how multi-faceted you are. So make sure that you choose a prompt that really you're able to highlight about yourself that really isn't shown on other parts of your application. On a similar note, you want to ask professors or prior work bosses, supervisors for letters of recommendation. And from people who are able to really highlight the kind of person you are. Again, this just goes back to my first point of because you're very limited on what you can submit and how you can showcase yourself again. You want someone that can really explain and support you and be like, this person is a really good candidate, like they'll do great in law school. You want someone that can really present that for you. And last but not least, your resume is also really important. If you don't have any actual work experience, anything that you have done throughout undergrad is perfectly fine. Like some of my friends who are KAGs meaning they came straight through dated and didn't take any gap years from college into law school. They've only had maybe like a waitressing or like a non-legal work experience, but that's so important to put on their still because there are skills that are applicable from those other non-legal jobs that can apply to a lawyer to an attorney to be in law school. So don't think that you only need legal work experience because that's not 100% the case. It's just a matter of how you can showcase yourself again and a way that makes it seem that the skills that you've learned in this certain role can be applicable in all of these other roles. So, and last but not least, your resume is also really important. If you don't have any actual work experience, anything that you have done throughout undergrad is perfectly fine. Like some of my friends who are KAGs meaning they came straight through dated and didn't take any gap years from college into law school. They've only had maybe like a waitressing or like a non-legal work experience, but that's so important to put on their still because there are skills that are applicable from those other non-legal jobs that can apply to a lawyer to an attorney to be in law school. So don't think that you only need legal work experience because that's not 100% the case. It's just a matter of how you can showcase yourself again and a way that makes it seem that the skills that you've learned in this certain role can be applicable in all of these other roles.