Your Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relates to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. The personal essay is an important part of your application for admission and provides you with an opportunity for you to clearly and effectively express your ideas.

A Personal Essay should actually show who you really are and what is your real background that led you select that career. Nonetheless, here's an example on how you could do it:

Hello! My name is Mary and I am from California.

I grew up with a sick sibling that needed support to move, so over the years I developed a great interest on helping others to get well in the most professional way possible, and reading a book on Medicine I found out that I wanted to be pharmacist so I could help others to feel and get better.

At school, I was the first in class while I volunteered as a secretary on the my aunt's office, who is a doctor, to learn a little about Medicine and the sick body. When the time came, I chose Pharmacy as a career at the University of California. There, I fell in love even more about Pharmacy and I developed a deep wish for research. So, I worked along Dr. Stuart in the search for the impact of specific medications on people. The results were published on the university's journal.

I look forward to keep on research on the impact of the high use of medications in the human body and contribute with science, for that reason entering to this Doctor of Pharmacy degree would relate deeply with my professional and personal goals.

Thank you!

what are the choices?

well seeing i am an artist and i actually did a self portrait; i will describe how i painted it.   i used acrylic on a stretch canvas about 4 feet wide by 6 feet tall. i painted myself smiling in a soft pink long dress, white tile floor sitting on a white couch with a table behind and a vase of gorgeous flowers.   i also had a round white hat with a soft pink ribbon through it laying on the floor and on the table behind me was a lit candle. i kept it simple but soft and romantic.