{"id":13942,"date":"2010-10-09T14:36:30","date_gmt":"2010-10-09T18:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=13942"},"modified":"2010-10-09T14:36:30","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T18:36:30","slug":"jets-with-j-d-s-law-school-personal-statements-and-not-being-creepy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/10\/09\/jets-with-j-d-s-law-school-personal-statements-and-not-being-creepy\/","title":{"rendered":"JETs with J.D.s &gt;&gt; Law School Personal Statements, and not being creepy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Andrew R. McCarthy (Akita-ken, 2005-08)<\/strong> is a law student at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law focusing on international trade, business, and tax.\u00a0 He currently runs the blog <a href=\"http:\/\/jetswithjds.wordpress.com\/\">JETs with J.D.s<\/a>, an information source for current JET alumni law students and prospective law students for career paths and approaches within the current legal market.\u00a0 For those considering law school and trying to comprehend the costs and the risks of such an endeavor, he also recommends <a href=\"http:\/\/lawschooltuitionbubble.wordpress.com\/\">The Law School Tuition Bubble<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s law school application season, and there are plenty of applicants out there anal-retentively tending to their personal statements in attempts to make themselves sound like the beacon of light that law schools are searching for to join their class, maintain their ranks, and get all those fancy entry-level BigLaw jobs that haven\u2019t been shifted to India.<\/p>\n<p>So what makes for a good personal statement, anyway? Well, for applying to law school, you would think it would be saying how much you love the law, dream about the law, sleep with the law under you pillow, live, breathe, eat, drink, and piss law. All the time. Everyday.<\/p>\n<p>But as JETs, you should already know better, but if you don\u2019t Yale Law School\u2019s associate dean has kindly stated the obvious for you&#8230; and it&#8217;s all available right <a href=\"http:\/\/jetswithjds.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/09\/personal-statements-dont-be-a-law-o-phile\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew R. McCarthy (Akita-ken, 2005-08) is a law student at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law focusing on international trade, business, and tax.\u00a0 He currently runs the blog JETs with J.D.s, an information source for current JET alumni law students and prospective law students for career paths and approaches within the current legal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-3CS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13943,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13942\/revisions\/13943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}