Be Careful Using Grammarly

Law school admissions are competitive. Every detail matters—including your personal statement. Tools like Grammarly can help catch grammar slips and tighten prose, but overuse can backfire. You risk sounding robotic, losing your voice, and triggering AI-detection flags. 

Don’t Let Tech Dilute Your Voice

Grammarly and similar tools are great for fixing typos and smoothing sentences, but they’re not infallible. Accept every suggestion, and your essay risks sounding stiff and artificial—exactly what admissions officers don’t want. Worse, hyper-Grammarly-polished text can trip AI detectors. These tools aren’t reliable, but a false flag could still cause an issue with your application. 

It’s Your Assistant

Grammarly isn’t your editor—it’s your assistant. Use it to catch typos and clean up clunky sentences, but don’t blindly accept every suggestion. It analyzes one sentence at a time and doesn’t understand your story, so some of its “fixes” will kill your tone or disrupt your flow. Keep what helps, ignore what hurts. Your personal statement should sound like you, not like a LinkedIn bot. If edits make your voice disappear, you’ve gone too far. And never auto-accept changes—Grammarly flags plenty of harmless things and loves to suggest pointless tweaks. You’re the writer. Grammarly is just a tool. Use it—but stay in charge.

The Admissions Wrecking Ball

Most applicants don’t need to worry about AI detection—unless you used AI to write the whole thing or you’re applying to a school that bans AI outright. Your essay should be strong, honest, and personal—not “AI-proof.” Focus on telling a winning story, not outsmarting detectors. And if your LSAT score isn’t where it should be, that’s your real problem. 

The LSAT matters more than anything else in your application. A solid personal statement helps, but a high LSAT score moves the needle on admissions and scholarships. If that’s not dialed in, forget Grammarly and go study. Admissions committees rely on the LSAT as a standardized measure of academic ability. A higher LSAT score can lead to better admissions chances and scholarship opportunities, often outweighing minor concerns about essays.

Key Takeaways

Grammar tools can help polish your essay, but don’t let them scrub away your voice. Over-editing leads to bland, robotic writing—exactly what admissions officers don’t want. And forget AI detectors. They’re unreliable and not worth the anxiety. What actually matters? Your LSAT score. It’s the single most important part of your application. If you can improve it, do that first. 

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