Personal Statement is trivial..?

[nikkisorous]

---

Members do not see this ad.

Hopefully this thread won't be reason for individuals on SDN to view me as pompous, but with the application cycle opening up this Wednesday I just wanted to alleviate some stress potential applicants may have. The reality of it is that your personal statement will never break or make your application for podiatry admissions. If this was MD/DO I would never say that, but it's not. I have heard numerous stories of individuals getting into podiatry school with personal statements that don't even total over 10 sentences. I think it may have slight baring only IF cGPA/sGPA are significantly lower than the average.

With that being said, I don't mean take it very lightly and put down nonsense, but there is simply no need to stress over the personal statement. Just answer the "why podiatry" question honestly and show genuine interest in the profession.

I would like some enlightenment from current students if they have differing views about the personal statement. Was anyone ever asked about their statement during interviews?

Anyway good luck to everyone applying this upcoming cycle 🙂! 😍

 

[knnguyen]

Hopefully this thread won't be reason for individuals on SDN to view me as pompous, but with the application cycle opening up this Wednesday I just wanted to alleviate some stress potential applicants may have. The reality of it is that your personal statement will never break or make your application for podiatry admissions. If this was MD/DO I would never say that, but it's not. I have heard numerous stories of individuals getting into podiatry school with personal statements that don't even total over 10 sentences. I think it may have slight baring only IF cGPA/sGPA are significantly lower than the average.

With that being said, I don't mean take it very lightly and put down nonsense, but there is simply no need to stress over the personal statement. Just answer the "why podiatry" question honestly and show genuine interest in the profession.

I would like some enlightenment from current students if they have differing views about the personal statement. Was anyone ever asked about their statement during interviews?

Anyway good luck to everyone applying this upcoming cycle 🙂! 😍

All colleges look at your PS, the interviewers actually asked me questions about/from my PS. I do not think applicants should overlook writing a thoughtful PS.

 

[trinifootdoc]

Personal statements are important in certain schools. I would definitely take personal statements VERY seriously.

 

[nikkisorous]

Thank you both for your replies. It's nice to see that admissions do actually use the personal statements to generate questions during the interview. I still however don't believe that your personal statement will be the major deciding factor in receiving rejections from schools.

 

[frankcfromny]

Here's what I've gathered about personal statements.

Any statement of purpose or personal statement is important and should not be taken lightly, however here is an exaggerated analogy that I heard from my advisor.

For any non-medical graduate school program, if faced with the choice of studying an extra month for a standardized test or spending another month writing your personal statement, choose the latter.

For any medical program, if faced with the choice studying an extra month for a standardized test or spending another month writing your personal statement, choose the former.

 

[dyk343]

I was asked questions about my personal statement at all my interviews.

I was also asked questions about my letters of Rec, which caught me off guard since I had no idea what they wrote about me going into the interview.

They read what you submit.

 

[nikkisorous]

I just want to clarify a bit. I never said they don't read the letters and to write crap. All i'm saying is don't over stress it. I still stand firm on my belief that the vast majority of people don't get rejections due to their statements.