University of North Carolina School of Law

Premium Content How My Community Prepared Me for Law School

by Erin Walker - September 15, 2010

This is the general personal statement asked for by all law schools on their applications.

When I was nine years old, my father proposed my first official, self-building challenge. I had fallen in love with a five-year-old pygmy goat named Jake while at the county fair in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Jake and I were even on the evening news together when his owner allowed me to parade him around for visitors to admire. At the time, I was a new…

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