Writing a Personal Statement For a Pharmacy School Admission

by JasperLee Lee Freelance Writer

In the United States, a professional pharmacist is one of the highest entry-level salaries under the allied health professionals so that there is a continuing increase of applicants who want to study in pharmacy schools. A pharmacy school in the U.S., offers the professional degree of Doctor of Pharmacy, and the primary admission criteria for most pharmacy schools would include completion of a two-year or four-year undergraduate degree, acceptable score on the Pharmacy College Admission Test, personal statement or statement of purpose, letter of recommendation or references, and personal interview.

Since admissions to most pharmacy schools in the U.S., is very competitive or selective, the personal statement has become an important admission requirement for many schools because aside from the personal interview, the statement of purpose is the only way that an admission committee or admission officer could know the prospective pharmacy school student on a personal level. Consequently, it is very important that an applicant to a pharmacy school should know how to write a high quality and well-written statement of purpose for admission to a pharmacy school.

An applicant for a pharmacy school could find out about personal statement writing for admission to a pharmacy school by going to the local library and searching for specific reading materials about the writing of personal statements for admissions to pharmacy schools, or he could search for general materials about statement of purpose writing for admissions to professional schools or graduate schools since a pharmacy school is considered a graduate education level institution. The applicant could also search the various Internet websites that offer free tips or guidelines on how to write statements of purpose for admissions to pharmacy schools or the websites that provide free samples of previously written statements of purpose for pharmacy schools.

The applicant should collect all the relevant reading materials that he obtained from the library and from the Internet. Then, he could write his own statement of purpose guide so he could learn on how to write a statement of purpose for admission to a pharmacy school. Based on the materials that he collected, the applicant come up with some of the basic tips in writing a statement of purpose for admission to a pharmacy school:

The essential information in the statement consists of academic or professional qualifications, the specific reasons for pursuing a pharmacist career, and other information that makes him stand out from other applicants.

Make an effective proofreading and editing of the draft of the statement of purpose. Make sure that there are no errors in grammar, spelling and syntax. The facts and other information in the statement should be accurate and updated. The applicant should revise the draft until he comes up with a final version that is ready for submission.