Thinking of applying to Northeastern? Or any law school?
Here are my tips, based on: being an Admisssions Committee application reader this spring, giving guided tour for the past year, doing Phoneathon last spring, working the Open House last year and this year, and being active on the accepted students' networking site.
Disclaimer: This is not from anything official from the Admissions office, just things I have picked up by working with/for the office.
Personal Statement
Don't exceed the 2 page personal statement limit. Really. It's a rule, and most people follow it. If it's 2.5, I get a little annoyed. If you mess with the margins to make a 3 page essay onto 2 pages, I can tell. And if you submitted a 7 page paper, you're telling everyone that you can't or won't follow simple directions.
For the love of god, edit. 1 or 2 typos we let go. When I find 5, your odds of getting in just plummeted. Don't you care enough to edit? This is a major paper that you have months to draft. Most colleges have a career service department that will help with editing.
International students, stop saying "indeed" every sentence. What is up with that?
Resume
Take things that you did from 4th-10th grade off the resume. Admittedly, I still had lifeguarding on my resume until this year. High school jobs are okay. Honor roll in 8th grade is not.
Objectives are out.
Keep it to one page unless you have significant (5+ years) of work history after college.
Questions
You can't ask too many questions. On tours, at the Open House, emails, phone calls, etc. Prospective students often say, "Oh, I'm sorry, but I have a question." Don't be sorry! I'm here exactly because I want to help answer your questions and I hope you'll like NUSL as much as I do.
Here are my tips, based on: being an Admisssions Committee application reader this spring, giving guided tour for the past year, doing Phoneathon last spring, working the Open House last year and this year, and being active on the accepted students' networking site.
Disclaimer: This is not from anything official from the Admissions office, just things I have picked up by working with/for the office.
Personal Statement
Don't exceed the 2 page personal statement limit. Really. It's a rule, and most people follow it. If it's 2.5, I get a little annoyed. If you mess with the margins to make a 3 page essay onto 2 pages, I can tell. And if you submitted a 7 page paper, you're telling everyone that you can't or won't follow simple directions.
For the love of god, edit. 1 or 2 typos we let go. When I find 5, your odds of getting in just plummeted. Don't you care enough to edit? This is a major paper that you have months to draft. Most colleges have a career service department that will help with editing.
International students, stop saying "indeed" every sentence. What is up with that?
Resume
Take things that you did from 4th-10th grade off the resume. Admittedly, I still had lifeguarding on my resume until this year. High school jobs are okay. Honor roll in 8th grade is not.
Objectives are out.
Keep it to one page unless you have significant (5+ years) of work history after college.
Questions
You can't ask too many questions. On tours, at the Open House, emails, phone calls, etc. Prospective students often say, "Oh, I'm sorry, but I have a question." Don't be sorry! I'm here exactly because I want to help answer your questions and I hope you'll like NUSL as much as I do.
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