Your academic record goes beyond your high school education, your college degree, and your formal education. It also should include your educational extracurricular activities, volunteering or charity work, and what you learned from those experiences. They also want to know what fuels and sustains your ambition and passion, any aspect of self-taught education, those life experiences and professional life lessons learned on and off the job, etc. Volunteer anything and everything that would make you come across as an excellent candidate.

"Since I was young, I watched my grandfather at trial. This was exciting for me and I always had a ton of questions for him afterward, which he'd take the time to explain. That's where my law education began. I earned my degree from Willamette University College of Law, in Salem OR. I'm proud of my accomplishments there and made a lot of progress toward my career goals. From there I went on to..."