Personal Statement: What Do I Hope To Accomplish By Going To Mercer

There are countless reasons why I have chosen Xavier University of Louisiana. Xavier will guide me to exceed all of my expectations with plenty of effort, focus, and determination. One of my main reasons for coming to Xavier is the wonderful biology pre-med program. I know that Xavier's dedicated faculty has helped many African Americans attain their goals of completing medical school. Whether a professor teaches an essential concept or an academic advisor assists with application processes, Xavier has all of the resources I will need to go to medical school. Going into Xavier, my expectations include becoming an ideal candidate for medical school to become a dermatologist or pediatrician. I plan to meet this expectation through rigorous

I am currently a senior at Santa Ana Valley High School. I am planning to further my education and obtain a degree. I am certain I want to be in the medical field; I have in the medical academy for three years here at Valley and I’ve never experienced anything more amazing. Most of my classes were honor classes and a couple were AP, Advanced Placement, throughout my high school years.

My life is a bit of a rollercoaster. I knew what I wanted to do since a young age; however, different paths and decisions brought me to my goal in a roundabout way. After high school I decided to take time off before going to college because I was fortunate enough to have a successful career in retail management. Around the nine year mark I decided that I wanted to return to my goal of entering the medical field, which I was already in the process of doing by attending Northeastern and working towards my BS in Biological Sciences. My ultimate goal being to achieve an MS as a physician assistant. When moving into health care I started in the Urgent Care Department which was closely related to one of the fields I am interested in when practicing

As seniors in high-school we are always asked about what career we want to pursuit,and where we want to take our lives. I began thinking about what I like and what subjects I was good at. I found out I loved math and science and was good at them too. Then I knew that the health field was really for me. I began searching for ways for me to see if I really liked it, so I applied to go to scrubs health camp at Augsburg college near my house. I really liked it and saw that my love for kids had me leaning to becoming a pediatrician. I had my doubts on that also because of the number of years of schooling, and one day I stumbled upon a pediatric nurse practitioner occupation and began reading about it. I loved it so much that

Currently, I am in the process of earning my Bachelor’s degree in Biology with a pre-medical emphasis from Grand Canyon University. Upon graduation, I hope to attend either a medical or physician assistant school. My specific goal in the medical field is still up in the air, however, I am avidly exploring the fields of pathology, oncology, emergency medicine, and surgery. My interest in the medical field was sparked by my human anatomy and physiology class during my senior year of high school. Put simply, my life in high school was rough, and I was completely lost, as far as my career decisions were concerned. I enrolled in a human anatomy course, to fill a hole in my schedule during my senior

All of my life growing up I dreamt of being a physician. I wanted to be able to help individuals who like myself had never had access to health care because although my family was on the federal poverty level never received Medicare benefits. Purchasing health insurance was out of the question, because the odds of getting sick were way lower than not being able to pay the rent. To achieve this dream I took baby steps, I attended a technical vocational high school (MLEC) in which I received a vocational degree in Firefighting and

Have you found the college you want to attend? Well, have you asked yourself why you want to attend this college? Well, I have found the college I want to attend. The college I want to attend is UAFS. There are three questions I ask myself when looking for colleges are: why I want to attend this college, what classes does this college have, and where the location is and the tuition cost.

When I came to school in August I thought I had my four years here at Harding completely planned out. I wanted to study to become a RN and eventually come back to Harding a few years after graduation and get my M.D. to become a Nurse Practitioner. But, these plans quickly changed. The more I learned about the different programs Harding offers the more interested I became in new career fields. Eventually, I was able to choose my major to be Exercise Science with hopes to apply to the Physician Assistant program after graduation. The biggest part of my reason for wanting to pursue this path is the versatility of the career. Currently, I want to work in pediatrics, but if I were to change my mind I could work in anything from dermatology to geriatrics

“So, do you know what you are doing yet after graduation?” This is a notorious question everybody gets asked at one point in their lifetime. Most people do not know the answer to this question, for there is a very broad range of things to do. I have known ever since I was little that I wanted to go to college for something along the lines of medical science, or health science. I just was not sure for what job exactly. It was not until this previous summer when it hit me that I wanted to become a physical therapist. One day my mother and I went to Vantage Physical Therapy because she had an appointment for her foot. As soon as I walked into the building, I looked around and was just blown away by the facility. There were tons of enjoyable, genial people everywhere. During the appointment, I had paid close attention to everything the therapist had done and was incredibly intrigued. Not to mention, I love anything that has to deal with science, the human body, and health. While I was observing at the appointment, everything piqued my interest. To give an illustration, the therapist had me help tape people’s legs and my mother’s foot. I immediately fell in love with physical therapy. When I had gotten home, I quickly ran to the computer to scrutinize the requirements such as education, degrees, licenses, background information, just about everything. I knew it was the job for me! Now when people ask me that renowned question I can finally answer, “Why yes, yes I do!”

Within our homes, schools, and community, there are many different fields of medicine to accommodate for the accelerating demand for doctors and physicians. With so many fields and concentrations of medicine, different schools have emerge to keep up with the demand. Now, not only are there primary care physicians, but also fields such as pediatrics and physical therapy. Since entering college, I have always had an internal debate and frustration on what I wanted to do and who I wanted to become and if I really did want to pursue a career in healthcare or engineering. Just recently deciding to aspire to become a physical therapist, I became so lost in how I was to pursue my career and the steps needed to achieve it. I have always thought that one only needed to take the MCAT (Medical College Admissions Test) and a letter of recommendation along with required coursework was all that was needed to become a doctor. Compiling this report allowed me to further research my desired healthcare career pathway and the experiences being a doctor comes with it.

I learned that I want to take the opposite path as everybody else. If you take that same path as everybody else, then what are you going to be remembered for? I don’t want to settle for a job that doesn’t pay a lot, especially if I know that I can do better. One of the reasons that I probably chose a doctor, is that I'm not going to be sitting around all day. You’re constantly running from room to room. This is why I will never settle for a cubicle job, no matter what. I also want to have interpersonal communication, so that I’m not staring at a screen, or doing paperwork all day. Although, not just any type of working with people, I want to help people that really need it. I don’t want just to do my job, I want to enjoy it, and be really good at it too. Thanks to the career ed, I now have a better plan for school, I can start doing medical classes/extracurriculars in high school to help get me on the right path. For example, when we chose our electives my second choice was doing a medical class. It would have been the first choice, but we are only allowed to do two credits worth, and language and a fine art took up one and a half, while the medical class was one credit. When a lot of people think about a surgeon they think of how much school you have to go through, but because of the Harper Promise Plan, I’m only going to be doing six years of college. Also, I want to get a job at the local hospital. They start hiring at 16. I wouldn’t be doing any medical procedures, I would be working in the food court. I would bring the food up to the patients. That’s not the cool part, though, If I had free time, I might be able to go down to the OR, and I would get to watch them perform surgeries. I figure that if I do this I will be ahead of the game, and it will be a lot easier for me in college, and when I

Yale interests me because it is an prestigious university that would be an honor to study at. Ever since I was a young boy, I yearned to know more about the world and I could not find a better place in the world for that than Yale University. Its vast library is overflowing with information that I would love to fill my brain with. It lets people like me read its books and use the gained knowledge within my world. Yale would be an amazing opportunity for me to discover myself even more and to learn more about the

In high school I thought I was going to become a physical therapist for about two years. During my senior year, I was able to observe a physical therapist for about 20 hours and realized it was not the career for me. Going in as a freshman to the University of Kentucky, I had decided to switch to pre-medical in hopes of becoming an orthopedic surgeon. I thought becoming a surgeon was an exciting prospect and my goal was to then get accepted to medical school. In trying to take a step toward preparing for medical school, I was looking to secure two different shadowing opportunities with surgeons in the spring

If I could have any career it would be a Pediatric Physical Therapist, I want to be able to help children and young adults recover and have a healthy future.Be able to go to sleep knowing that I made a difference in a child’s life, and that they are on a path to a full recovery. At first going into highschool I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to be, so I wanted to do a process of elimination. I was always intrigued at being a nurse because I would go with my Grandma to her patient's house and help her take care of her patients. So I took the class Principle of Health Science to test the waters and truly see if I was interested in the medical field.I was shocked when I actually found myself enjoying the class and soaking up all the information

Since early childhood, I always believed I would choose a career in the medical field. When I was five years old, I was asked: “What do you want to be when you grow up”? I always responded by saying: “I want to become a dentist”. I began to pursue my lifelong goal of becoming a dentist or doctor after enrolling at the University of Georgia majoring in biology. I interviewed and shadowed many doctors, all of whom specialized in different areas. I learned about the education process of becoming a doctor, daily tasks, their lifestyle, and the hours they worked. However, the more time I spent shadowing and working with people in those fields; the less I believed that a career as a