Secondary Essay

[sbdento]

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I'm working on my secondaries and I'm stumped with this one.

"Why do you want to attend X dental school?"

Does location count?

Where do you research the schools to get accurate information? Their websites provide a lot of information but it is mostly convincing you that they are number one at everything, which is not exactly true...

Does anybody have any tips?

Thanks

 

[chippy]

What I've been doing is going to the school's website and finding like their mission statement or goals and trying to figure out what they are really trying to accomplish. And then writing an essay in which I trying to connect their goals to my own. Like if they seem like they're really dedicated to rural care, write about that. Big on diversity? Write how you're diverse. Emphasis on comprehensive care as opposed to specializing? Dig it. School with a particular religious or other affiliation? Connect yourself. Yeah, you may have to bs a bit, but oh well.