Underage drinking addendum - please help?

Law School Admissions Law School Personal Statements
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Can anyone please look at this addendum and let me know if it sounds good? The schools say I have to explain what happened. Should I explain it in more detail or is this enough?

Thanks.

During my sophomore year, I was sanctioned by my university for consuming alcohol at an off-campus party while being under 21 years of age. I was placed on housing probation for the remainder of the academic year and was required to attend an alcohol screening meeting. I take full responsibility for my actions and have learned from my mistakes. I successfully abided by these sanctions and have had no such incidents since.

Also, do you think this will hurt my application?

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I doubt this will be a big deal. You didn’t even get a drinking ticket from the police. Even if you did, still not a big deal.

As far as the addendum goes, I would scrap that last sentence. It is not really necessary. Other than that, your addendum looks fine.

3

Great, thank you for the response and suggestion. I’ll take out the last line- but I thought it would be good to include it to show “maturity” of some sort…

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bump, does anyone else have thoughts on whether this addendum is ok?

5

Its fine, and will definitely not hurt your application at all