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Charles Street • Baltimore, Maryland 21201  \n410-347-3118 • 410-347-3119 Fax  \n[www . pad . org Website](www . pad . org Website)  \n[dco@pad.org](dco@pad.org) Email  \nWinner, 1996-97 Outstanding Professional Program Award  \nNew York State University, Binghamton Pre-Law Chapter  \nSuitable For: small, medium and large chapters  \nRecommended Program Pair: none  \nP.A.D . Program Material: How to Write a Personal Statement handouts and sample essays  \nRecommended Instructor: law school admissions dean; for small chapters: prelaw advisor  \nCost: Small— 1) purchase price of overhead transparencies; 2) expense of copying material onto overhead transparencies; 3) expense of copying handouts for seminar participants; and 4) normal publicity costs. Ask your pre-law advisor if he or she can obtain overhead transparencies at no cost for your chapter. In order to obtain assistance with copy charges and other costs, ask the campus career center to sponsor this seminar.  \nProgram Overview: Chapter members learn how to write a personal statement that increases their chance of acceptance to the law school of their choice.  \nOrganization: Request that the Pre-Law Department send your chapter the Personal Statement Seminar Packet (see the cover for contact information) . It includes handouts about how to write a personal statement and sample essays for correction on an overhead projector. You must have the program materials before inviting an admissions dean or representative to instruct the seminar, so order ahead. Remember to allow ten working days for the Pre-Law Department to fill the order and one week for mail delivery.  \nThe Pre-Law Department will send you one master of all program materials. Once you have the master, invite a law school admissions dean or representative to instruct this seminar (smaller chapters may prefer to ask their pre-law advisor to bethe instructor if attendance is projected to be small; pre-law advisors are also good alternative instructors for chapters who cannot get an admissions representative to teach) . When you extend the invitation, give the instructor a copy of the P.A.D. program materials. Ask the instructor if he/she would like to use the sample essays (on an overhead projector) to help teach the students the how to’s of personal statement writing.  \nIf the instructor would like to use the P.A.D. materials, copy the sample essays onto transparencies for the instructor. Also make enough copies of the P.A.D. handouts for the students projected to attend the seminar. If the professor has other materials he/she prefers to use, graciously agree.  \nPhi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity, International • Writing a Personal Statement • page 2  \nDuring the planning stage, ask your chapter’s pre-law advisor if he/she would be willing to correct the students’ personal statements after the program is over. Also, ask your chapter’s pre-law advisor if he/she would be willing to return the personal statements to the students individually, by appointment, so they can discuss the corrections made. Finally, if your campus career center maintains student placement files to assist students with the process of applying to graduate school, ask a career center representative if he/she would be willing to place the final versions of the personal statements in the students’ career files.  \nThis is a two-part seminar, scheduled on two separate dates. The law school admissions dean or representative participates on the first date only. 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