Ep 60: How To Structure Your Diversity Statement

Today, Sydney goes over how to structure your diversity statement and set it apart from your personal statement. Through her own diversity statement and other examples, Sydney will go step by step on how to brainstorm and make that diversity statement a beautiful addition to your law school application. 


Episode Highlights

  • Your personal statement should be more tied into your why law focus, statement, or focus thesis. The reason for going to law school, the area of law, the people that you wanna impact, the stories that led you there, the development of that passion, but there may be other things that are so important to you.

  • A basic structure of a diversity statement could be starting off with a story that kind of names, claims your diversity. Doesn't have to be socioeconomics, race, gender, or culture. It could be something completely different. And then you might have another story that complicates or further shows how that diversity really affected you or made you think differently of the original thing that you claimed.

  • A diversity statement should have layers. Lead the story into a takeaway of how it has shaped you


Tweetable Quotes

It should be really personal to you. It should be an essay that nobody else can write. It is your story fully. Deeply....How has something different shaped you, made you who you are, transformed your thinking, changed how you interact with people such that, when you get into this new community, other people will be changed from interacting with you. You will benefit the community by being there with your experiences and your perspectives.
— Sydney Montgomery
We wanna make an impact with admissions. It’s not about standing out, it’s about making an impact. It’s about connecting with people here in their heart.
— Sydney Montgomery
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