personal statement writer's block

[pharmer_tami]

Hello,

I am currently working on my personal statement and having a very difficult time trying to tie my ideas together. In the personal statement, I am supposed to address why I chose pharmacy. I have many different reasons to this question, not one specific reason or life changing event. I decided to go into pharmacy after a number of volunteer/job shadowing experiences in different pharmacy settings. Does anyone have any suggestion on how I should organized my essay? I realized some people organized their personal statements around a central theme (i.e. they visited the local pharmacy often as a child and always wanted to be a pharamcist..) Should I try to find a theme to tie the essay together or go on and talk about all the important reasons why I decided to do pharmacy? This is definitely taking longer than I had anticipated🙁

Thanks! 🙂

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[off2skl]

I used 3 important reasons for the three prongs of my essay. I remember two of my reasons were impact and flexibility (this is where I talked about the different avenues within the career).

 

[Tkehinde]

Any one Know if it's okay to state in you personal statement that you are interested in primary care. Is that a turn off for most schools?

 

[OSURxgirl]

Maybe you should make an outline. List your reasons, and under each write supporting evidence or things to back it up. Each reason and its evidence can be transformed into a paragraph. You can tie it together by using transitions between paragraphs. You might also want to start with an anecdote or something and then bring it up again in your conclusion (in a non-redundant way) to give cohesiveness. I, too, had a lot of reasons for pursuing pharmacy, and that's a good thing! Not everyone has the dramatic "Oh my god! I have to be a pharmacist!" moment.

 

[bananaface]

Any one Know if it's okay to state in you personal statement that you are interested in primary care. Is that a turn off for most schools?

If you are interested in primary care, go ahead and say so. If a school doesn't like it, you don't want to go to that school. Realistically, being interested in primary care is unlikely to hurt your application. Schools accept people with a variety of interests. I would just encourage you not to limit yourself to primary care, but to come across as open to other areas of practice.