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I was just curious as to how long a personal statement should be. I know there is no set length, but what is average?
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actually, there is a set limit. according to aadsas, "you are limited to approximately 1 page (4500 characters, including spaces)."
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Ok. Thanks. I didn't realize that you type it into your aadsass as well. I'm about to do the committee letter thing, and I'm pretty sure I include a copy of my personal statement in that. Did anyone who did this use the same personal statement, or did you write a new one to avoid the redundancy of sending the same thing twice?
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I'm not really sure what you are asking?? your ps in the committee thing?
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Some schools require a PS from you in order to wrte a better commitee letter. This happened to me, and I just used the same one I submitted to AADSAS.
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I see. Why not use the same one. I think the committee will use your PS simply as a reference when writing a LOR (similar to a resume) and will not resubmit your ps to aadsas or your chosen dental school.
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I would use the same one that you are going to send in to AADSAS. At my school, the whole point to providing a personal statement was so that your interviewers could get a good grasp of how you are going to present yourself at your actual interview. I even asked the committee interviewers if there was anything I could to do strengthen my personal statement before it went off to AADASA.
Although, the head of the pre-health department was actually quite rude and made fun of me for something I had written. I left it though because I felt it was an important part of why I love dentistry and my REAL interviewers loved it. Oh and I got in, so she can bite me.
Although, the head of the pre-health department was actually quite rude and made fun of me for something I had written. I left it though because I felt it was an important part of why I love dentistry and my REAL interviewers loved it. Oh and I got in, so she can bite me.
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is there a website with sample residency application personal statements? i know that for medical school, barron's had a pretty good book/collection of essays that were helpful.
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One of the writing assignments for my English class was to write a PS. In addition, we also got to look at a lot of other sample PS so I thought that helped me a lot. Maybe you can try looking for a class like that.
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bottom line it is your ONE chance to prove you aren't a statistic. If they are deciding between you and someone else for an interview invite and your stats are the same..... guess what will push them over the edge? Make it unique, but not crazy. Make sure they know who the real you is and what you want. Also if there is something totally out of the ordinary about you.... mention it. For example my wife and I are foster parents, so when I said I want to help people with my money, I put my money where my mouth was. I am probably one of only 3 or 4 applicants out of 12000+ that is a foster parent and THAT is unique. Don't tell them that you have a finger nail collection or that you twitch your eye when you think really hard, kind of unique, find some thing that is good and unique (I hope you saw my humor, I really don't think you have a finger nail collection or an eye twitch).😀
