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i'm in the process of writing my essays but really hope i can get some ideas going, inputs, outputs so all the help i can get to get these essays going. any inputs given is really appreciated!

1) Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. The personal essay is an important part of your application for admission and provides you with an opportunity for you to clearly and effectively express your ideas.

2. Discuss the challenges you predict you will face in pharmacy school and how you will overcome these challenges.

3. Detail how your previous schooling has prepared you for the program at Pacific University School of Pharmacy.

4. OPTIONAL for all applicants: Please take advantage of this opportunity to state any additional pertinent information (academic, personal or application related) that you think the Admissions Committee should take into consideration while evaluating your application.

5. Have you ever been in a situation where you felt you needed to modify or change your behavior? How did you know and what did you do? How have you been able to take lessons learned from that situation and apply them to another?

6) Describe how you have explored the profession of Pharmacy to determine this is the career path for you.






other questions anyone can think of?

 

[pharmschooler]

My best advice is to kick these essay questions around in your brain for a week or two before you start writing. Think about them before bed, when you wake up, when you're driving, etc. When you come up with something you want to write about, write that idea down. Over time, your answers will come, and you can begin your essay.

Write your essay, rewrite it, read it out loud, rewrite it, have a friend read it, rewrite it, and repeat. I wrote my essays 2 - 3 times each before submitting them. I'd write something I thought was good, think about it for a while, then realize it was trite, and rewrite. It's a long process to write a good essay and it involves knowing your own reasons for getting into pharmacy inside and out. The nice part is, it's also great prep for an interview. Once you've thought it out thoroughly, interviewing should be a piece of cake.

If you really can't come up with any answers for these questions, pharmacy might not be your thing.

 

[owlegrad]

Think about what you want to convey about yourself and then think about the best way to convey that information.

Make an outline.

 

[Jabberwocky12]

One thing I have been hearing (I'm also trollin' around the pre-med forums nowadays) is to not restate the other parts of your application.

Don't talk a whole lot about the ECs and what you did like in clubs, volunteering, working, and etc. The only time you really mention them is if they had a DIRECT contribution to wanting to work in pharmacy, such as volunteer or employed experience in a pharmacy or something. The reason being is that you already have an area to show/talk about your ECs so you would be redundant about the ECs again, which also takes up extra space in the essay.

Again, unless you have specific anecdotes or reasons they made you go into pharmacy, spend more time talking about other areas for "why pharmacy?" and "why am I awesome enough to go to your school?"

 

[Timbo]

I'm having issues with the first question too: "Have you ever been in a situation where you felt you needed to modify or change your behavior? How did you know and what did you do? How have you been able to take lessons learned from that situation and apply them to another?"
I can't really think of a time when I behaved improperly at work or school. Should I write about a social situation instead? I don't know if it would be appropriate to start the essay with "Well this one time at this party..."

 

[xNeenax]

I'm having issues with the first question too: "Have you ever been in a situation where you felt you needed to modify or change your behavior? How did you know and what did you do? How have you been able to take lessons learned from that situation and apply them to another?"
I can't really think of a time when I behaved improperly at work or school. Should I write about a social situation instead? I don't know if it would be appropriate to start the essay with "Well this one time at this party..."

How about something like "during a social gathering blah blah blah"

i'm in the process of writing my essays but really hope i can get some ideas going, inputs, outputs so all the help i can get to get these essays going. any inputs given is really appreciated!

1) Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your .....

Do you find these links helpful:
http://studentdoctor.net/2010/07/essay-workshop-101-2/
http://studentdoctor.net/2011/07/medical-school-application-secondary-essays/
http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=375844

I looked over those websites to help me with my essay on PharmCAS and I also used Owle 😎
I also did what pharmschooler said. It took me like 4 or 5 weeks to create an essay.