{"id":20288,"date":"2012-08-23T11:03:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/?page_id=20288"},"modified":"2018-05-22T13:31:39","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T17:31:39","slug":"crafting-personal-statements","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/students\/careers\/library\/crafting-personal-statements\/","title":{"rendered":"Crafting Personal Statements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A personal statement provides an opportunity to share your unique story with a reader; it highlights your strengths, interests, and aspirations while supporting your statements with experiences from your personal, academic, and professional background. Your personal statement should:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Evaluate your unique experiences and demonstrate to the reader what motivates you.\n<ul>\n<li>Summarize your career goals: what brought you to this pursuit?<\/li>\n<li>Use detailed examples to illustrate your points.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Communicate your enthusiasm to a prospective admissions office.\n<ul>\n<li>Share what you know about your program of interest and why you chose to apply: feel free to refer to the curriculum, faculty you hope to work with and learn from as well as research or para-professional opportunities the program provides.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/dental-bu-csm.symplicity.com\/students\">Boston University Dental Career Network (BUDCN)<\/a> to access the most up-to-date guides and workshop materials.<\/p>\n<p>Use your BU student email to login. Don\u2019t remember your password? Email <a href=\"mailto:gsdmcr@bu.edu\">gsdmcr@bu.edu<\/a> for a new one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A personal statement provides an opportunity to share your unique story with a reader; it highlights your strengths, interests, and aspirations while supporting your statements with experiences from your personal, academic, and professional background. Your personal statement should: Evaluate your unique experiences and demonstrate to the reader what motivates you. Summarize your career goals: what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4479,"featured_media":0,"parent":18594,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20288"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4479"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20288"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38753,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20288\/revisions\/38753"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dental\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}