Can you take a few minutes to read and critique my law school personal statement?

Can you take a few minutes to read and critique my law school personal statement?
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I don’t really have anything to add that much on that page myself as I’ve never written anything like that before and have no experience with it. But, I will say your essay left me with no doubts about your reasoning and made it clear you wanted to be a part of their community as a whole. So, I dug it. :)
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