ICO Autobiographical Statement Q

[adviceseeker]

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Hi,
I was wondering if anyone has any tips on how to include all your extracurricular activities and optometry experience in the personal statemtent for ICO's application without breaking the flow of the essay. How detailed does this information need to be? i.e. should I include the exact number of hours I have spent shadowing/volunteering?
Would anyone that has written it already mind sharing how they approached the essay?
Thanks : )

 

[Oogilily]

For ICO, I broke down my essay into an intro (includes how I became interested in optometry and why I want to do optometry) and the rest was about my accomplishments and other good qualities. I just made it flow from my good qualites I have in one paragraph to the next paragraph about the things I have done that have shown the qualities I have are useful in real life applications. I closed the essay with my future goals. So, that's what I kind of did in my essay.

 

[melucla]

a lot of my extracurriculars helped me decide on optometry so that was a plus for me. killed two birds with one stone. i just made sure to find a way to connect all of the activities/make it flow instead of just making it seem like a laundry list of descriptions. for example, i talked about vision screenings for preschoolers, but also about other work with kids i did, like tutoring. i actually couldnt fit one of my activities/extra info about me in because i had 500 words already. but i think its better to be descriptive and elaborate on one thing than to try to stick in a whole bunch of stuff.