AtriumLearning.com for personal statments..

[SUNNY007]

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Hi,

I am planning to use Atriumlearning.com for getting my personal statment written by them..Have u guys heard about them..How good are they?..plzz i need some feedback..THANX

 

[dackmonkey]

here's my feedback: if you can't seem to write your own personal statement, i doubt you'll last a month in dental school.

 

[NAVY DDS 2010]

Hi,

I am planning to use Atriumlearning.com for getting my personal statment written by them..Have u guys heard about them..How good are they?..plzz i need some feedback..THANX

This thread is no different than the thread that was started a few days ago by the little girl who has to have her boy friend write her personal statement. If you cannot put into words from the heart why you want to be a dentist, maybe you shouldn't be a dentist. for a person who isn't strong in their scores, the personal statement can have a big impact in touching the adcom and make them want to find out more about a candidate based on the emotion in the personal statement. It doesn't guarantee that they will get in, but it opens up the door. There is no way that having someone else write a statement for you will be able to pull your emotions into the statement. When it comes to the interview, if you get one, you had better have those same emotions because they will be able to see if what you wrote ( or what someone else wrote) is BS. Do you want to risk them raising the BS flag. It is just not worth it! If you just sick at writing, seek help from someone for guidance, but put the statement together yourself and have them help tweek it.

 

[SUNNY007]

Hi guys,

I know it might sound little immoral to u guys but i have to study for dat..my mind is filled with that bio, chem, orgo stuff that i have been memorizing..studying from june 12 for about 12 hrs/day i feel like i have a headache 24/7...i am not in the right state of mind to write an essay..

 

[DrSmiles12]

Thats understandable sunny, just remember we are all in the same boat man. Try not to stress it to much. Good luck!

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Steps to writing your essay:

1. Go to a coffee shop with a notebook and pen (or a notebook and carrying case, depending on your definition of "notebook".)

2. Buy a horrifically expensive drink.

3. Pour your heart and soul into said notebook. The essay is only a page. It's a great break from studying the sciences.

4. Find family members who did any writing at all, friend english majors, even a random english prof from some gened you took. Print out copies and buy everyone coffee while they look over and mark the crap out of it.

5. Take some of their advice and discard some. Then change the first two sentences so it is the most grabbing bit of awesome crap you've ever written.

done!

 

[ucla2134]

" Print out copies and buy everyone coffee while they look over and mark the crap out of it."

That actually happened to me

 

[NAVY DDS 2010]

Hi guys,

I know it might sound little immoral to u guys but i have to study for dat..my mind is filled with that bio, chem, orgo stuff that i have been memorizing..studying from june 12 for about 12 hrs/day i feel like i have a headache 24/7...i am not in the right state of mind to write an essay..

If you are truly studing that much per day, maybe you NEED to write your statemetn so you force yourself to take a break. Truthfully, it shold only take a few days to write a good personal statement. Write down things (brainstorm) from the heart why you want to be a dentist just so you have an idea. Then just start writing or typing down your thoughts as if you were talking to a friend or relative why the reason you feel you would wna tht eschool to consider you and why you want to be a dentist. If yo are speaking from the heart and you put it together as if you were tlaking to a friend, then it is going to sound so much more personal and so less robotic (stale, assembly line, etc.) and will give them an idea of you. Plus, if you take the time as a break to think about why you want to be a dentist, that might give you that extra motivation to put QUALITY time (not QUANTITY time) into your studies. Just because you study 12 hr/day doesn't mean you are getting 12 quality hours in. You need a break and writing that statement will help provide it for you.

 

[I'mFillingFine]

Just because you study 12 hr/day doesn't mean you are getting 12 quality hours in. You need a break and writing that statement will help provide it for you.

So true so true! And it's important to not get into this habit in dental school. Some of my classmates sit in the library for 10 hours with AIM open and a tendency to get up and get drinks a lot (or chat with their fellow classmates at the adjacent seat) and then have no time for fun that day. I lock myself in my little bubble for 2 hours, get the same work done, and go to the freaking movies 😀

and ucla, same here! I got a librarian, ESL professor, PhD in communications, and a dentist in one room and handed it out. It was actually very fun!

 

[MissSmiley]

As someone said earlier in this thread. We all had pretty much the same courseload that you had, but still managed to get our personal statements written on our own.

IMO I wouldn't want to pay someone that much money to write my personal statement unless they can somehow guarantee my acceptance into dental school.

Keep in mind also, that at interviews some schools require you to write an essay on the spot. Will your essay sound the same as your personal statement, just in case they check?