For my final project for English 308, I chose the professional portfolio option. For this, I wrote a personal statement for applying to medical school with the prompt, "Why do you want to go to medical school?" I wrote up a resume, interviewed a doctor for her imput on a profession in medicine, and then wrote a reflection about the whole process.
I'm not sure if this counts as a "source", but the most helpful thing I found while working on this project was the interview with the doctor. She obviously had gone through the entire application process once before in life, and while the process may have been a little different when she did it years ago, she still had very helpful words of wisdom. Not to mention, she used to be on the admissions committee at USC Keck School of Medicine, so she pretty much knew what she was talking about. The hardest part of this project was definitely the personal statement, and I felt that her advice really helped me figure out what to focus on while writing it.
What do I wish I'd known before starting this project... Well, I think that it would have been smarter to start the project earlier, though, this would have been difficult because I literally started it as soon as it was assigned. I just feel like I didn't have enough time to write the personal statement. A personal statement is suppose to have countless drafts, but I was really only able to go through about 4 of them given such a short amount of time, in addition to other school and work commitments. I do not think my personal statement as-is is my final draft; I think it can use a look more work. So, my advice is if you decide to do the personal statement option early in the quarter, start early. Then you can work on it a little bit at a time and have plenty of time to have other people proof read it and get their advice.
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