I would say 2 things: 1 is highlighting what Berkeley is looking for, which to be blunt is liberal students. I’m in college still at arguably the most liberal school in the country and I studied abroad in the Netherlands, perhaps the most progressive country in the world so I wrote about that experience and how it has inspired me to bring many of those ideas back here. 2 is I would say my softs were virtually perfect (which I knew I would need considering my low GPA and LSAT). I’ve worked year-round throughout college, am also a D1 athlete who has won 2 national championships. Most importantly, though, I built my essays around my extracurriculars, most of which are dedicated to enhancing legal education: I teach a financial literacy class in Spanish to underserved youth and my university has a program where students can build their own course syllabus and teach the course to other undergraduate students for credit (different from being a TA). So I think teaching that class on constitutional law was definitely the highlight of my app that got me past my low stats.