Reapplicants-- Personal Statement

[airpotato]

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I may be a pessimist.-- or a severely harsh realist, but I've only got 2 interviews under my belt, so I'm preparing for some more quality time with the AADSAS site for the 2008 cycle.

I'm pretty darn happy with my personal statement. Should I re-write it? Write a completely different one?

I'm thinking of applying to some schools that I havent applied to before, and reapplying to some schools that I applied to this application cycle. Do you think that the schools that have already seen my application for the 2007 cycle care too much about me not writing a new personal statement?

Opinions? Tips, experienced advice...anything?

 

[lovechild404]

i was a reapplicant for the 2007 cycle. in my personal statement i addressed why i wanted to be dentist, and that reason hadn't changed since the year prior. so basically i kept 95% of my ps the same and jsut added and/or took out certain things.

use your judgement. and to be honest, if you didn't get an interview at a school, they most likely didn't read your ps either. adcom usually read ps and lor right before the interview.

keep in mind, however, that certain schools keep your file from the previous cycle.

gl.

 

[ATLdentalgirl]

I was a reapplicant as well, so I know this topic all too well! Most schools require a new personal statement. What I did was put most of the same points in from my old personal statement, but also included what I had done since getting rejected to make myself a stronger applicant (ie more school to raise my GPA, leadership positions, dental experience, whatever you lacked the first time around) You may also want to have people read your personal statement. I had a professor read mine and he pretty much told me it sucked, so I wrote a new one "outside of the box" and I think it is pretty killer and much better than the original. Good luck

 

[reapply2007]

I reapplied and rewrote the whole ps. I drafted a new one with a completely different approach and theme, let some friends read it, and went with the one with more votes. This happened to be the new one. It's pretty painless to at least draft a new one before you drop another pile of money into another application cycle.

 

[purduephigam]

I reapplied early in the cycle and also chose to rewrite my personal statement. Assuming you are in fact bettering or attempting to better yourself as an applicant you need to discuss things you have done or changed in order to help attain this dream of yours. For me, most of my stuff was essentially the same, yet it was rewritten (not copied and pasted from last year). However I tried to make it more concise so that I had some room to talk about what I've done differently, what I've learned from it, etc. If you don't talk about what you've done differently, how will they know you're any different from last year? Discussing this also makes you appear more dedicated as a student/pre-dent. Just my $0.02.