quick personal statement question

[dexadental]

I began my personal statement today, and thought about writing about those people who have shaped my life...in particularly my parents. The qualities I learned from them (lets leave out the bad ones), and how they shaped my desire to be a dentist. Is this too mushy? Will adcoms feel I rather should have handed this to my parents? I'm starting to have second thoughts about this...
Thanks!

 

[Jone]

sure, do it, as long as you can tie that stuff into dentistry somehow. if you simply write about how your parents made you a good person or something cheezy and irrelevant like that, don't bother.

I began my personal statement today, and thought about writing about those people who have shaped my life...in particularly my parents. The qualities I learned from them (lets leave out the bad ones), and how they shaped my desire to be a dentist. Is this too mushy? Will adcoms feel I rather should have handed this to my parents? I'm starting to have second thoughts about this...
Thanks!

 

[msf41]

That sounds fine to me. As was said before just make sure you CLEARLY make the connection between your parents influence and how it relates to dentistry.