Coffee & Personal Statements

Personal Statements: Best Foot Forward

• Put your best foot forward
• Brainstorm your topic
• Show, don’t tell

Highlights

Putting our best foot forward with our personal statement starts before we write a single word. We need to first maximize our GPA, then our LSAT, and focus on our personal statement once those two things are done. When it comes time to write our personal statement, we'll spend ample time brainstorming ideas. The strongest statements come from writing about what we’re genuinely passionate about, not what we think sounds “lawyerly.” Passion comes through in our writing, and we naturally show, not tell.