First, in my role as Director of Admissions at the University of Calgary I have read some 2000 statements by law
school applicants answering the very question posed by the OBA: «Why do you want to go to law school?»
Not exact matches
The number of essays varies among
schools; Schulich asks
applicants to write five essays, whereas Sauder has reduced its short -
answer questions from four to two, plus one 500 - word essay question.
Gateway requires
applicants and their parents to
answer four pages of questions, responding to prompts such as «My best qualities are...» and «When I graduate from high
school, I hope...»
It may sound too good to be true, but statistically speaking, it can be surprisingly effective, according to one charter
school organization requiring
applicants to
answer hypothetical e-mails as part of its interviewing process beginning this summer.
The
school lotteries, which are required under the state's charter law when a
school is over capacity, provide a way to
answer the common complaint that the charter
school applicants are «different» from their peers in the traditional public
schools.
The Albert Nerken
School of Engineering Writing Supplement consists of a number of short
answer questions to be completed within about one week after the application deadline (December 8, 2017 for Early Decision
applicants; January 17, 2018 for Regular Decision
applicants) and returned to The Cooper Union for review.
The Functional Format resume is the
answer for the job
applicant who has worked in more than one industry, has changed careers, has gone back to
school to pursue training in a new field, or who is returning to the workforce.