Dr. Adrienne Shnier
Founder and CEO of Apply Yourself Global (AYG)

TITLE: The Perfect Personal Statement
Presenting Friday, November 7 at 2:30 p.m.

A well-written Personal Statement is a critical component of a successful law school application. Law School Admissions Committees review Personal Statements in detail when making admission decisions. In this exclusive workshop for Phi Alpha Delta, you will learn directly from Dr. Adrienne Shnier, who is a lawyer and law school professor with over ten years of experience as an admissions committee member at the graduate and professional school levels. You will learn not just what it takes to develop a “Hell Yes” Personal Statement, but also how to create it. This workshop will include guided exercises from Dr. Adrienne Shnier to get you through one of the toughest components of starting your Personal Statement.
In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Showcase yourself using key strategies
•  Understand what your admissions committees are looking for in a Personal Statement
• Identify who is on your admissions committees
• Humanize yourself for your admissions committees
• Implement an actionable strategy to get started today

Without overwhelm, stress, or losing sleep, and with:

• Clarity
•  Your questions answered
• Feeling heard, understood, and supported

You will leave this workshop with tangible work that you can use to take your Personal Statement to the next level. 

TITLE: Mental Health in the Application Process
Presenting Saturday, November 8 at 10:15 a.m.

The process of applying to law school can be stressful for students. Students often become preoccupied with the perceived “competition” and "statistics" in the application process. The pressure to obtain high grades and LSAT scores can lead to an unbalanced lifestyle, toxic and unhealthy habits, and doom-scrolling. Obviously, this takes a serious toll on a student’s mental health. In this exclusive workshop for Phi Alpha Delta, you will receive Peak Performance Coaching from Dr. Adrienne Shnier, who is a lawyer and law school professor with over ten years of experience as an Admissions Committee Member at the graduate and professional school levels. You will learn strategies and engage in active mindset work in the session that will help you to reach your Peak Performance and to maintain a peak mindset and balanced lifestyle throughout the application process - and life. There's no "toxic positivity" here, and no bypassing how we feel. Dr. Shnier will also introduce you to some important pieces of literature that will help you to thrive through the perceived pressures and stresses of the application process in a mindful and health-focused manner.  You will leave this workshop with new strategies to live a balanced, holistic, present, intentional, and healthy lifestyle during the application process and beyond, as you create a life beyond your wildest dreams.

Biography: 
Dr. Adrienne Shnier, B.A. (Hons.), M.A., Ph.D., J.D. is the Founder & CEO of Apply Yourself Global (AYG), a revolutionary space for student and professional success, support, and strategy to accelerate both personal and professional growth and achievement in alignment with your big goals. Informed by her decades of practical experience supporting her students and clients in their success, peak performance, and mindset, Dr. Shnier’s philosophy and approach to student success is revolutionary in academia and across professional sectors – strictly non-competitive in nature and focused only on you, engaging in high-level and detail-oriented training and skills-building with our clients daily and weekly to understand your mind, cognition, perception, decision-making, goal-setting, and the role of mindset in your continual achievement of success
using evidence-based strategies informed by neuroscience and psychology. Dr. Shnier is an Admissions Committee Member and brings her clients her knowledge and expertise from behind-the-scenes, inviting them into her experience and building their applications together, focused on the action-packed implementation of her strategies.

Dr. Shnier has been working with her clients at AYG since 2014, with a continued admissions success rate of 95% on her clients’ first application cycles to their graduate and professional programs across sectors. AYG also serves our clients in our 1:1 LSAT, MCAT, DAT, SAT and ACT Coaching program, Mastering Test Prep™, a groundbreaking, customizable approach to standardized testing that focuses on the individual and their learning style(s), personality, and life circumstances.

Dr. Shnier also brings her experience in the public and private sectors. As the Founder and Managing Partner of Shnier Mackenzie Law, her law firm has grown from a one-lawyer firm in 2020 to a team of lawyers and a paralegal at the firm office centrally located in Toronto. Shnier Mackenzie Law practices in health and business law. Dr. Shnier is also a Professor, teaching at York University since 2011 in the School of Health Policy & Management, School of Global Health, and Faculty of Graduate Studies. Dr. Shnier is also Program Director and Faculty in the Health Law LLM Program at Osgoode Professional Development at Osgoode Hall Law School.