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****THIS ARTICLE WILL ONLY WORK IF YOU SEND IN YOUR PERSONAL STATEMENT*****

Time to apply! You hava your resume built, your done with or studying for the DAT and you have some other minor details to polish before you can send in your application, including your dental application personal statement for AADSAS. This essay is a brief statement about your interest in dentistry, some things you have done to this point that illustrate your interest, and how these attributes will help you succeed in your future career as a dentist. Start by making an outline. Ask yourself some questions: Who are you? What is your experiance? Why dentistry? What have you accomplished? Do you have family in dentistry? What are your hobbies? What research have you been involved in? How will these things help contribute to student life at your school and even further in your career as a dentist? Constructively relate all of these back to dentistry in an organized format. It doesn’t have to be anything amazing just make sure it flows and holds interest.

Here are a few examples. Please donate your own essay once you have been accepted and share the wealth!

These are REAL dental school personal statements:

Anonymous AADSAS Letter of Intent From 2005-2006 Application Cycle
5 Interviews | 1 Acceptance | Turned down 4 Interviews | Update: Current OMFS resident

A. C.’s Personal Statement for the 2006-2007 Application Cycle
11 Interviews | 5 Acceptances

J. T.’s Personal Statement
5 Interviews | 3 Acceptances | UoP

C. G.’s Personal Statement for the 2006-2007 Application Cycle
3 Interviews | 2 Acceptances | Update: Accepted into an OMFS residency

N. C.’s Personal Statement for the 2006-2007 Application Cycle
Applied to 1 School | Attending 1 School

A. M.’s AADSAS Essay for the 2006-2007 Application Cycle
Temple Class of 2011

M.G. AADSAS Essay for the 2007-2008 Application Cycle
8 Interviews | 3 Acceptances

P.A. AADSAS Personal Statement
Applied/Accepted: 4/4

DentalWorks Personal Statement
Applied/Interviewed/Accepted: 17/8/4

I made the mistake of turning my first essay into a story with lots of experiences that, although very interesting, did not relate as well to dentistry as I had thought. The second time I applied I brought my essay to a respected professor who had helped many who passed before me. He read over everything, highlighted two sentences in my whole essay and scratched out everything else. He then told me to expound on those two sentences. What resulted was a simple, flowing essay that highlighted some of my experiences and desires in dentistry.
I will need some more essays to make this post work. You can see that these essays are simple and straightforward and cut to the chase. They have to be concise and detailed because you only have a certain amount of characters available to write the essay. So use these examples, glean the knowledge they hold and when you have done yours, send it in to add to this dental bank of knowledge!