Info About Creighton University SOP

[megrxgirl]

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I am thinking of applying to Creighton but I have noticed that it is a Jesuit school. Their supplemental application requires you write a PS with the following info:
The statement should include your thoughts on each of the following topics.
Your desire to engage in a Jesuit pharmacy education at Creighton University and how you will use a Jesuit education in your pharmacy practice.
The importance of professionalism to the practice of pharmacy and the personal characteristics that are most important in a health care practitioner entrusted with patient welfare.
Your strategies for successfully completing the requirements of the pharmacy program and your plans for involvement in professional and/or community service while in school.

Im not familiar with the Jesuit religion, so my question is how do I write a PS about how I will include Jesuit in my pharmacy practice If i'm not a Jesuit.

Maybe I should'nt even apply to this school. I don't know what to do.

 

[starsweet]

I'm having the same issue. I've been trying to write this essay for a month now. 🙁

 

[Gizmo]

Look online to see what Jesuit's believe. Even though you may not be a Jesuit, you may have some common beliefs that you can talk about.... ?

 

[gablet]

Look online to see what Jesuit's believe. Even though you may not be a Jesuit, you may have some common beliefs that you can talk about.... ?

A guy in one of my pre-req classes said that his stats weren't great (3.2 and 84%ile -composite), but that he got an interview there. In the interview (and I assume that he mentioned this in his application, too) he explained his endeavers while doing a 2 year mission for his church (mormon). He is now attending school there! 🙂

 

[dgroulx]

Jesuits are Catholics. What you need to find out is their philosophy towards Catholicism and life. You can probably find that out on their web page somewhere. Do a search on their page.

I went to a Catholic college for undergrad, not Jesuit but Benedictine. They had the Benedictine philosophy posted.

 

[KUMoose]

As mentioned, Jesuits are a sect of the Catholic church interested in education and public service. Having talked to many people going to a local Jesuit school, they place high value on life-long learning, social justice/community service (in the sense that those that have, provide for those that have-not), personal responsibility and leadership.

Given the sheer number, there should be a Jesuit school nearish you, OP, try visiting the school and talking to someone there. From my experience they are sincerely thrilled to talk with honest people about their beliefs, instructional processes and outlook on life.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

I posted some info on this very topic on 8/9/05. Here's what I posted:



Source: http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/se/sjedtrad.htm

<<Ignatius realized that education was not an end in itself but rather a means to lead the student to care about other human beings. The genius and innovation he brought to education came from his Spiritual Exercises whose object is to free a person from predispositions and biases, thus enabling one to make free choices. These Exercises are based on the premise that people who are free enough to say reality is good will recognize their own goodness and will live happy and fulfilled lives. The goals of Jesuit education have always been to offer this means to become a person of choice, thus inviting students to be more concerned about their fellow human beings.

Jesuit College graduates are expected to have made mature commitments to values and should have acquired the self-discipline to live by these values. They should tolerate diversity of perspective and have a critical respect for their own cultural tradition. They should have developed competence in the skills of analysis, judgment and expression. They should be aware of their interdependence with their fellow men and women.

They should know that theirs is a privileged position in a world where most people are poor and oppressed by the conditions they live in. They should be "men and women for others", that is, the good things both material and spiritual which they want for themselves they should want for others too. They should be able to see in their own lives signs of a transcendent life and means of access to it. Jesuit education, which began in 1547, is still committed today to the service of faith, of which the promotion of justice is an absolute requirement.

Because of this fact Jesuit educators have been a thorn in the side of tyrants for more than four centuries. One recent example is the murder in 1989 by the El Salvador military of the six university Jesuits who were determined to promote justice and to spread the Ignatian vision, teaching love and concern for others, especially for the poor and those whom the unjust structures of society keep oppressed and destitute. This is, after all, the obligation of all educated, mature human beings. One grasps this concept from the animating source of the founders of all Jesuit schools which is the Spiritual Exercises handed down from Ignatius of Loyola.>>

 

[megrxgirl]

Thanks for all the input. This was something I was not familiar with at all.