IVYESSAYS LAW SCHOOL ESSAY PACKAGE ­ OVERCOMING OBSTACLES The following essays were received into one or more of the following schools: Harvard, Stanford, Chicago, Cornell, Berkeley, NYU, UVA, Michigan, Georgetown, Columbia, Duke, UNC, U. Penn.   Personal Statement #1 "You can't judge a book by its cover."   As a child, this was one cliché to which I was particularly devoted.   In addition to the customary difficulties of adjusting to adolescence and a new school environment, I entered middle school with an unusual liability:   I suffered from facial tics, the most...

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