What Non-Numerical Requirements/Qualifications do law schools also evaluate?
Law schools will also be evaluating you in terms of research, leadership, initiative, diversity, interests, involvement in law-related and non-law related activities. The Law Schools will use the following to evaluate these non-numerical qualifications. • Law Schools will ask you to submit anywhere from 0-4 letters of recommendation. • Personal Statement • Resume (some schools require). Help with pre-law resumes can be found in the Career Center. • Individual Law Schools will ask you to respond to supplemental essay questions that focus on topics including: work history, extracurricular activities, leadership, disadvantaged status, etc. • Dean’s letter – Only a small number of schools will require a Dean’s letter. Usually this request calls for a routine certification of the fact that you are a student in good standing. You should take such requests to the Dean of your School, which routinely completes such forms for UC Merced undergraduates. Law schools will not expect that you know t
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