This is an admissions essay. I’m interested in going into law. In terms of overcoming adversity and being reslient, my father was abusive, a very difficult personality, and my introduction to the law was him fighting for visitation and custody, despite my vehement protests to anyone who would listen. I have an issue with the concept of judicial immunity, as I have read stories of judges — in the county I live it — sending children to live with the very parent who abused them because said parent claimed “parental alienation” which is a concept that has been rejected by science and psychology for years. My father also claimed alienation and I was forced to see multiple therapists and a “guardian ad litem.” I told all of them that I didn’t want to have anything to do with my father. He kept fighting to see me until he finally threatened me, in the open, in front of my mother, with going back to court to try to get full custody of me. And he did. He lost, but it was the scariest time of my life.
In any case, I have a 3.7 GPA, have been in a history/English/art honors program for the past 2 years. I have also had a job for the past year and a half teaching swimming to toddlers and small children, who, just like my father, represent a population of “difficult people.”
I’ve attached my sisters college admissions essay just for reference. I’m usually a good writer but can’t seem to get this essay off the ground.