Ap Psychology Personal Statement Examples

I grew up alongside the wild Rocky Mountain Columbines, where the air is crisp and the winters are long. I spent my time engaging in the arts such as acting, writing, and creating. From a young age I was drawn to the world of imagination and found happiness through producing art. We all face and over come challenges within our lives and whenever I am faced with hardship I find comfort in visually expressing myself.

Flashback to 2006, it’s the midst of fall and recess have just begun. The red and whites of the Danish flag blows in the cool wind and inside a girl from second grade puts on her cozy red coat, anticipating the joy of playing in the colorful falling leaves and inhaling the crisp autumn air, but before opening the door, a boy approaches her and says “Your boots are ugly.”  The girl takes a second to think and then replies the boy with a cold “thank you,” she then proceeds to go on with a smile on her face, as if nothing had just happened to her. This girl with the rather unconventional reply was me, and the reason this story is so significant is not necessarily due to what an observer would have witnessed that day, but instead the thinking that led me to do what I did.

I am very interested in the School Psychology program at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. I have a strong educational background and a number of professional and educational experiences, which I feel have prepared me for this program. I enjoy working with children and developing strong rapport with parents and co-workers. I learned about the graduate program with great interest because I would like to offer my skills in the area of psychology to meet students’ psychological needs.

I was born in Iran to Afghan parents who fled Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. Iran is notorious for denying basic human rights to refugees and my family was no exception. Although I was born in Iran, I nor any other member of my family held a fraction of the rights granted to Iranian citizens. I recall the undercover police officers the Iranian government had who looked for Afghan refugees in order to force out of the country. My parents did not want us to continue to face the same problems and racist treatment so they went to the United Nations to seek refuge. After a year of grueling interviews, medical tests, and security checks, we were informed that Canada would take us in. Being only 11 years old, I remember feeling thrilled that we were going to a better place. Canada did not fail to disappoint as we were welcomed with warmth and treated with equality.

I graduated from my undergraduate institution in September 2013. From fall 2013 to spring 2014, I helped my mother recover from different injuries after suffering an accident in July 2013 and another in November 2013. I volunteered from a public health study as an evaluation research assistant between December 2013 and June 2014, and worked part-time for that same project from July 2014 until its end in September 2014. I was the lead Spanish/English interpreter for the UCSD Student-Run Free Clinic between July 2014 and June 2016 where as a volunteer I was able to also shadow medical students and physicians and learn more about underserved communities. Between March 2015 and June 2016, I worked part-time as a research assistant for two global

Much of my time as an undergrad has been focused on conducting basic scientific research. Thoroughly enjoying this facet of my education, I find myself drawn to investigating unexplained phenomena. I plan to make research a major component of my medical career. Interdisciplinary teamwork is vital to the success of research, especially in the biomedical field. Therefore, access to research-centric hospitals and departments open to collaboration would be inherent in the location of my practice. Investigations with results that could prove practical towards my patients at the bedside would be of greatest interest to me. This interplay between research and clinical treatment will be one of the grounds that that my career will be structured around.

The FIU Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine's promise of a nurturing environment in addition to its mission, vision and values symbolizes an institution that strongly resonates with my own personal goals as a future physician whose qualities are guided by the background of research, efficiency, and community involvement. The concept that structures a successful research are the fundamentals that apply to medicine, beginning with a theory, prediction, experimentation and finally observation; fundamentals realized and understood throughout my undergraduate year. On my first day, my research advisor said that I should strive for excellence and I should not be halted by the failures I may experience, instead, learn from those failures and adapt. Keeping this ideology in mind I was able to assist my team towards the completion of our project.

Statement of Interest My journey into the wonders of neuroscience began in high school. A psychology class provided me with my first insight into what drives us as humans. This course was a relief for me because it felt like I finally found a question that innately resonated with me. However, studying psychology seemed as if I was just scratching at the surface of something remarkable, something of incredible magnitude, which I could not yet uncover; the inner workings of the brain. While human behavior was interesting, it was the underlying mechanisms in the brain that captured my imagination. When deciding on a major for my time as an undergraduate, I realized that my deep curiosities could not be satisfied in the field of psychology

The event that marked my transition from childhood to adulthood is when I decided I wanted to become a teacher/coach. I've changed the idea of what my career will be a few times and I thought my last choice of psychologist was it. Psychology always interested me and to pursue this work would be fulfilling due to the fact that I would be helping others. The more I involved myself with the debate program and the more I talked to our assistant coach the more I realized how much I enjoyed being part of the debate space and how much I enjoyed teaching others. After school was over and after practice had finished, I headed over to the assistant coach's room. We sat and had a discussion over a scholarship opportunity called 'Teach Forward Houston.' At first I wasn't too

Knowing that I really did not want to pursue clinical medicine as I originally planned, my thoughts really wandered to the area of clinical research. I was encouraged by a colleague medical doctor and senior safety manager in the pharmaceutical industry to pursue a career in research as it definitely suited my interests. I was certain that by obtaining some practical experience and working in a research environment to gain first-hand knowledge of what the responsibilities of a researcher entails, I could answer my questions and satisfy my curiosity.

I am a family man. Three years ago, after the birth of my daughter, if anyone ever asked me who my family was I would have said my wife, my daughter and myself.  On further questioning, I would have included my parents, siblings and others of the same blood lineage. (Can you change the introduction please?) But now I realize that family means more, requires more and never stops evolving; and my own evolution has led me to choose the discipline of Family Practice.

Personal Statement Life has a funny way of showing you what it is, you are looking for. We’re always searching for something. Whether it be meaning, love, career paths, family, we all want that something that makes us feel alive. That aspect of my life for me is helping others. At the beginning of college, I was troubled with deciding if I wanted to pursue business or psychology.

I have the desire to work in the psychological field either clinical counseling or addressing the problems among people due to social causes. This decision did not just “fly out of nowhere” but due to a process of elimination. Through high school, I took classes that would fit my curiosity and from that I decided that I was not going to become a boring engineer with a lack of social interaction but rather someone that deals with people on a daily bases. I enjoy talking to people about everything and that is why I chose my internship at Bagget Elementary as a mentor for a STEM club. The field of psychology is very board field and it branches into all sorts of fields such as business management, engineering and history. Since I enjoy talking to people and I want to go into the field of psychology, I chose this internship specifically so that I would have interactions with a different age group and observe how they react to things I never had growing up.

All throughout high school I thought I would go to school to focus on law, but after having experiences with the field of psychology I felt like this was what I was meant to do. My junior year I started the Regional Choice Initiative (RCI). This program allowed me to take college courses for credit while still attending high school (IU5). Every Tuesday and Thursday I would take classes through Gannon University – two of which were psychology courses. I had the same professor for both.

With twenty-five percent of the population experiencing some kind of mental health disorder in a year, psychology is a useful and necessary science that has helped thousands of people throughout its history. In the span of five centuries, psychology has developed from labelling mentally ill citizens as witches to locking them up in asylums and finally to the practice of therapy that we use to this day. There is no doubt that psychology will continue to advance and I would like to be an active part of that development. With four of my relatives, including myself, having had mental health problems in the past, I am fully aware of all the different ways that psychology can help people with their issues.