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For those who have been accepted to optometry schools and didn't have an inspirational childhood moment where you knew you wanted to pursue some career in vision, how did you specifically respond to the question "Why Optometry?". I'm concerned on how long I should go on explaining how I developed interest in the career.
My personal narrative goes something like
Interests in healthcare in H.S-> Joined pre-healthcare clubs in college-> took a leadership role in pre-med-> took physics and physiology classes-> decided i enjoyed optics and neuro the most-> decided I wanted to pursue a career in either neurology or optometry-> Did not want to cut into people or be looking at feet legs and such and wanted to keep doing optical measurements-> Decided optometry would give me the most of what I wanted (in an academic sense)
I feel I may run into a problem with appearing not genuinely sold on optometry
since I looked into the field of dentistry and medicine for about half of undergrad
Any input on how to strengthen my appearance would be helpful to me
My personal narrative goes something like
Interests in healthcare in H.S-> Joined pre-healthcare clubs in college-> took a leadership role in pre-med-> took physics and physiology classes-> decided i enjoyed optics and neuro the most-> decided I wanted to pursue a career in either neurology or optometry-> Did not want to cut into people or be looking at feet legs and such and wanted to keep doing optical measurements-> Decided optometry would give me the most of what I wanted (in an academic sense)
I feel I may run into a problem with appearing not genuinely sold on optometry
since I looked into the field of dentistry and medicine for about half of undergrad
Any input on how to strengthen my appearance would be helpful to me