A Nurturing Classroom for Latino Children I am very concerned with the academic performance of Latino Children who study in English and speak Spanish at home. I see the fate of bilingual education in California and other areas with large Latino populations as an issue of central, especially critical importance. I have a variety of sizes of research interests, including the search for ways that Latino children can be inspired and empowered to do well in their English academic work, at the same time that they retain and even celebrate their identities as Spanish speakers. We have much work to do in this area, and I look forward to providing at least moral, if not technological, support for the movement for multi-language education in the United States. I am working as a teacher on a particular assignment, providing support and training for other teachers and staff. I have over ten years of teaching experience and am fully dedicated to lifelong, computer-assisted learning. I seek to refine further the whole gambit of professional skills I will need as a state-of-the-art educational administrator. I am confident that your program is the best match for my resources, skills, humanitarian interests, progressive ideology, and a high degree of motivation. I am convinced that XXXX is the perfect place for me to learn how to best go about making the world a better place. Building Tomorrow: Educating Latino Children I am especially interested in graduate work in Educational Leadership, and my long-term goal is to work as a School Administrator. Thus, I have my heart set on XXXX because they offer students the chance to tailor their course work in the direction of the special needs that they want to address. I would most prize the opportunity to design my staff development program, and your program offers the flexibility and individuality that I will need to help improve the instructional and leadership abilities of myself and my co-workers. I have more than ten years of experience in various teaching positions ranging from computer software applications to family literacy classes, working with parents, adult students, at-risk youth, older adults, and adults with disabilities. I am skilled in selecting and adapting the best teaching materials available for use in a given classroom. I am a staunch advocate and devotee of lifelong, active learning, and I have a deep passion for technology; I stay up-to-date concerning technological advancement in education. I am pleased to finally complete my bachelor's degree in Business Administration. I have long been a non-traditional student at my own pace, combining work and study. Finishing my undergraduate degree has now left me hungry to continue. At 35, I think that I am at my optimal moment for graduate school, old enough to be wise and young enough to have the energy, drive, dedication, and determination.

Advancing Your Career in EdTech The Technology in Education Online Master's Degree Program at XXXX uniquely suits my needs and talents. It is the optimal program for me to prepare myself to make the entire contribution to society to which I am capable. Your Internet-based online program is the ideal match for my needs, working at my pace taki, ng two courses at a time. I started the MasteMasters'sram at XXXX University, and I have received all A's in the courses I have taken so far. Frankly, It is not challenging enough for me, and I want to transfer to a more rigorous program on a higher level. I think that I am now at the point of academic maturity that I will be able to make an excellent contribution to your cohort program that meets once a month. I yearn for that more hands-on approach instead ofctly learning at my computer station. I am only applying to XXXX because I follow my heart, which is what my gut tells me to use. I am especially interested in doing graduate work in the area of educational technology. I like learning to incorporate technology into my daily life as a teacher. I love teaching, it is my life, and I see technology as our greatest hope for so many things, from enhancing our capacity to teach advanced mathematics to our children at home to uniting the world one laptop at a time. Online Education at Your Fingertips My most excellent quality or asset in life is my compassion for others. I especially love children. My desire to serve led me to flirt with a medical career, and I served as a volunteer EMT for two years while in college. I also volunteered with Big Brothers/Big Sisters, where I mentored high school students at risk of dropping out. My volunteer work has made me more robust; I am now more mature, have greater self-confidence and esteem, and have become more disciplined and better at managing my time. I sincerely enjoy making daily improvements in my proficiency as a teacher and delight in inspiring my students to learn new ways to do so. I have worked for over seven years as a teacher at an elementary level. My work has always proven to be both enormously rewarding and fulfilling, especially where I have had the privilege of assuming leadership positions in educational settings. Although the joy of classroom teaching and the interpersonal interaction with my precious children continues to inspire me and intensify my passion for teaching, I feel a deep calling to participate more fully in educational administration. Thus, my short-term career goal is to prepare myself academically by continuing to study for a Masters's Degree that will allow me to assume greater responsibility in administrative leadership. The most significant contribution that I might be able to make to society would be to contribute toward bringing increasingly innovative teaching methodologies into our classrooms. I hope to see each American classroom soon providing a laptop to each student and educational instruction, even to children, via this medium. I look forward to many decades of fulfilling service to my community as a technology specialist and consultant working to enhance the administration of our educational systems. Another asset I bring to your program is that I am an accomplished team player. This is another thing that I love about teaching and being part of a close-knit academic community struggling to incorporate technology as a teaching tool that is used by my teachers and administrators in increasingly efficient ways, enhancing coordination and collaboration of all parties involved. My short-term aspiration is to become a tech teacher in my school and eventually graduate into an administrative position at the county level. I appreciate that the content of XXXX's program is in step with state-of-the-art electronic resources, including full-text databases. It is the ideal program for me because of your emphasis and appreciation of emerging technologies and novel strategies for their implementation. I look forward to being able to participate in small classes with a great deal of interaction and collaboration between faculty and students. I am very attracted to the idea of more individual attention and instructor feedback. I am a young Hispanic woman who was born and raised in the New York area, but I now live in Georgia. I enjoy contributing to diversity in the place where I live. I am fascinated by human nature, which is why I completed a dual degree in Psychology and Education. I am also a Spanish teacher at my school, and I am in the process of becoming certified in this area. I have been a regular classroom teacher for seven years in grades K-2 and ESOL. I sometimes think that I have two sides to my brain one Spanish and one English. I love bilingual education and I feel that it is equally beautiful for an Anglo child to learn Spanish as it is for a little Latino to learn the language of ultimate success in America. I want to thank you for consideration of my application to your program.

I was hooked by my very first college class in psychology, most of all, learning how psychology related to me personally. As I learned more about myself, I came to better understand others as well, their emotions, sadness, anger, happiness, etc. I began to understand that human suffering is a universal problem and that those who suffer are far from alone. And I became keenly interested in continuing to explore the ways in which we are all alike, with similar sorts of problems, challenges, and responses to significant life events. Psychology led me to an interest in counseling, and counseling led me to an interest in marriage and family therapy. I was brought up by Chinese parents who settled in America to escape poverty and to chase the American Dream. Growing up in California has been a constant journey of adaptation to the culture of my family and the numerous cultures that surround me. I relish analyzing my own saga, my predispositions in interaction with environmental challenges and resources, my strengths and weaknesses, and how all of this has resulted in my unique temperament and intellectuality. I think critically about how, as I grew up, I modeled the behavior of my peers, mimicking the role models that I admired. As we all do, I became what I saw, heard, and felt; synchronizing salient facets of a group consciousness that I did not even recognize, much less knew how to break free from. I had my struggle with low self-esteem, a negative sense of self, times that I did not feel loved or understood. Slowly, however, I learned the value of determination, self-confidence, love and compassion. During grade school, I was the quiet one, perhaps in part as a result of the brutal adjustment that my parents had to make to find their niche in the American rat race. My mother worked from home, making clothes for a local clothing factory and struggled to be a homemaker. My father was preoccupied with his education and building a business. This led to a lot of quiet time alone for me, introspection. By the time that I arrived at XXXX College, however, I was fortunate enough to meet people who saw potential in me. I surrounded myself with positive people who showed genuine interest in my ideas. I began to take my studies seriously and my grades improved. I discovered the great Greek aphorism, “Know Thyself,” and launching upon a quest of self discovery provided me with greatly rejuvenated meaning. Studying psychology gave me inspiration: hope, allowed me to overcome my introversion and to become more assertive. It was like staring into my own reflection when I was introduced to some of the most salient psychological concepts, “Fear of Failure,” “Need for Achievement.” I was able to re-channel formerly negative ways of thinking into creative new paths. When I transferred to XXXX to finish the remaining coursework for my BA in Psychology, a professor told me: “Be careful what you focus on because what you focus on becomes your reality!”

Ever since I started high school, I knew XXU was where I wanted to dedicate my undergraduate study. I haunted my guidance counselor’s office every day freshman year, poring over information on the University. XXU is first in so many ways, from its status as the largest non-profit private university in the US, to its incredible track record of illustrious alumni. Most recently, I was struck by XXU solidifying its connections with my family’s homeland of Israel, opening a campus in Tel Aviv. Both my parents are from Israel, and came to America with a pocketful of hopes and a loose grasp of English. Overcoming the obstacles of acculturation, they worked long hours, seven days a week to support my sibling and I. I promised them and myself that their hard work and sacrifices would never be in vain, and I am proud to say that I will be the first member of my family – ever – to attend higher education. While school and standardized testing has proven a challenge for me, I am already enrolled to sit the SAT again; I simply refuse to give up and have maintained Honor and Principal’s List for three years. I feel that I have proven my ability and dedication to my school, community and family in many ways, the very same people and groups that have given me untold amounts of unconditional support. My academic path is still developing, and I look forward to interacting with XXU’s accomplished student body and benchmark setting faculty as I bring a focus to my raw passion for a number of subjects. To date, while I have proven my aptitude in math, the sciences, and graphic design/photography, I have a passion for drama, acting and public speaking, creative outlets for the huge amounts of energy that I have. Post-graduation, I see myself with a good foundation in business, working in graphic design or accountancy, fields that will enable me to follow, at least part-time, acting. The response I have gotten from audiences, my school and the community as an actor, not just the smiles and applause, but being tapped for a number of public speaking events for my school, confirm to me that I am on the right path. Post-graduation, I want to be an inspiration to others, in my professional work and active volunteerism, showing others that one person really can make a difference. To this end, I have garnered 150 community service hours, from working with autistic children, tutoring poor children, and delivering bread for Shabbat to seniors. I am also proactive, proof of which can be found in not just getting people to register to vote, but calling parents and even setting up a booth at our annual fashion show to register voters. Furthermore, I have been working every summer since I was 14, since I have a mature sense of responsibility and good work ethic. I keep an active pace in my academics, and in my extracurricular activities, from my work and success in Drama Club where I beat the odds, 50 to 1 to get a part, to my portrayal of Yoni Netanyahu for Israel Independence Day in a living wax museum. In my co-curricular work, I have been involved with Pace summer scholars, taking an acting course, FIT for graphic design, as well as electives and AP classes through a partnership with Brooklyn College, earning some 18 credits to date. I believe time is the most valuable asset we have, and XXU is the school where I want to spend the next four years or more. XXU is a school in which I can put action to my ambitions, goals, and most importantly, my dreams. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Leaving Tanzania with my parents and sister was meant to better our lives. My father, a professional accountant, and my wonderful mom, with a pocketful of hopes and dreams, came to Canada to begin a new life. I was a teen, felt ready for anything, and confident in my family. I remember when it first hit me that our dreams were to be tempered by realities that we had little control over. In high school, I wanted to join my school’s volleyball team. My dad looked up from the consent form, saying, “I will gladly sign, but I do not have the $20 they require”. I was not angry, or sad; I just wanted to help. So I got a job delivering paper, without a bike, proper shoes or gloves, walking my route in all weathers. Despite my father’s experience, he could not find a job, as his experience was not accepted in Canada; my mother had no work experience and did not speak English. Suddenly, my father collapsed, unconscious from oral complications, and had to receive an emergency root canal that strained our budget and savings. I got another paper round, this time with my mom, dad and sister helping. Along the route, my parents would collect cans from people’s recycle bins, to recycle them for change. Seeing how helpless my parents were, I sought employment, to the detriment of my studies. I often thought back on how in Tanzania I had always been a top student. Finally, my father got a night-shift gas station job. Still, he was unable to complete equivalency courses, as the money was not enough. While he never openly expressed his sense of helplessness, his eyes spoke volumes. Nothing could prepare us for the accident in December of ’97. My mother and sister had been grocery shopping. As they were crossing at a crosswalk, a speeding car hit them. My father and I were at home when the police called, but could not get to them quickly as we had no car. A neighbor drove us to the scene of the accident, but all we could do was watch as my mother and sister were driven away in an ambulance. At the hospital, even through her pain, my mother lamented the groceries she had lost. It would be two years before she could walk on her own. My two part-time jobs brought in enough money to get our first computer and put a down payment on a used car. I entered college optimistic, but shortly thereafter, my uncle died, leaving my mother devastated. Her health deteriorated and she developed a cyst in her stomach. For the next two years, I was by her side, taking her to every appointment. My mother’s parents passing, and four other family members dying shortly thereafter, added to my mother’s trials. While Canadian healthcare is free, medications are not, and the cost was significant. For my part, all of my efforts to try to keep my family afloat financially forced me to drop out of college due to poor academic performance. The material was not beyond me; I simply could not focus and lacked the time to do justice by my work and abilities. I adamantly attended classes unofficially, studied for the DAT, and volunteered at dental clinics. Today, my father is 61, works 12 hours a day, seven days a week as a gas station cashier. Five years ago, my mother got a job as a line cook for Triple-O’s restaurant, the irony being that we are a vegetarian family. I worked my way up in retail management until I finally became a DAT instructor for Kaplan. Simultaneously, I attended school, volunteered as a coach, in the ER and dental clinics, building my exposure. I have always prided myself in being self-sufficient, but can see no way forward without your kind consideration of my circumstances, the Herculean effort I have put into the pursuit of my dreams, and the at times painful steps that have led to this point. I respect a hard day’s work, know the worth of a penny, know what hardship and sacrifice are and most importantly, know what family is. I never saw myself as “disadvantaged”, but appreciate institutions looking beyond a student’s academic achievements and proportionate consideration of life achievements. If applying as a “disadvantaged” student gives my application an additional two minutes of the committee’s time then I am two minutes closer to achieving my dream. I realize my dedication to my goals and how I can further help my parents, society, and myself as a dentist. I would like to give my parents their much-deserved retirement before they are incapable of enjoying it mentally and physically. Thank you for your time and consideration.

I am currently finishing up my Master’s Degree in our Nurse Practitioner Program here at XXXX University. I have a special emphasis in my studies on adults, most particularly our geriatric population. My compassion for my patients, and the older they are the more that I love them, is matched only by my attention to detail and my enthusiasm for nursing. I was born and raised in Africa, in Freetown, Sierra Leon, my country of origin. At 46, I am now a non-traditional student who has come to love and appreciate XXXX University very much. This is why your program is my first choice for doctoral studies. I have developed valuable professional contacts and a good family and spiritual support base here in Minnesota—all of which will help me give my all to your program with as few distractions as possible. Thus, I feel that I am at my optimal moment to pursue my PHD studies, taking advantage of a wealth of practical experience to stimulate my creative juices as I tackle many of the most burning issues in nursing today. Especially over the last decade, I have enjoyed growing responsibility as an RN and I I feel strongly that this experience will be helpful for my PHD studies, along with my academic preparation throughout my undergraduate studies and then on a graduate level. I have much to contribute, as an African woman, to the diversity and inclusiveness of your program, especially as a result of my professional and life experiences. I have spent the last decade in the emergency room. ER is has become a professional home to me over the years. I work in all areas of ER at the University of XXXX Medical Center in XXXX. We have a trauma section, along with 2 obstetrics and gynecology rooms and a state-of-the-art psychiatric emergency department. Most of the time, I work in triage where I have learned to safely assess and expedite care for the critically ill patients in my care, safely admitting, transferring, and discharging patients as necessary. I profoundly love being part of an excellent team that all pulls together around the goal of optimal health care for patients and their families. I take special joy in having the opportunity to focus on preventative care and public health education, disseminating information to support groups so as to empower critically ill patients to take advantage of all available resources in the community. I am a cosmopolitan African woman who now makes North America her home. My travels to Central America to serve with medical missions have been especially important to the development of my professional identity thus far. My colleagues and I go on mission trips to Honduras where we work with the underserved populations in the city of La Ceiba. And I hope to continue to excel in this area as a doctoral student and beyond. Being accepted to your doctoral program will enable me to strive effectively towards the goal of helping to make society as safe as possible from the threat of untimely death. I have developed a special focus on how to treating stage 1 hypertension before the disease progresses to an irreversible stage and I keenly look forward to investigating this issue, in particular, in your program. 10 years from now I would like to be one of the leading experts in the field of hypertension among African Americans. My dream job would be to work with the WHO and develop programs in the prevention or early detection of hypertension and treatment among both Africans and African-Americans, investigating what we can learn from the differences among us. I am honored by the fact that my hospital serves a huge minority/immigrant population, increasingly the face of urban America. I believe the most pressing health concerns are the lack of effective education on disease processes and preventative medicine; and I am especially concerned with the disparities that exist among the racial groups with respect to levels of public health issue awareness. Blacks, in particular, suffer from hypertension more so than any other racial group. Unique factors of cultural identity come into play with the American black, particularly men, a lack of trust in health care delivery based on past issues such as the Tuskegee experience. There is also the theory of drug resistance in blacks to hypertensives. My number one goal will be to work towards a transformation in the way people that people view health. Having worked in health care for the past 15 years, I have come to profoundly appreciate the way that we need to focus on wellness, not disease. Establishing trust among the population that I plan to serve is a central key to promoting a message of wellness. I look forward to a lifetime of study of the way in which the family must play an integral part of the African-American patient’s path to wellness, leading to healthier communities and, ultimately, a reduction in health disparities along racial lines. My systems change project will be in the area of Community Nursing Management of African Americans with stage 1 hypertension in XXXX Center, MN. The emphasis will be on general wellness, along with education and therapy compliance to prevent the disease condition from advancing to the next stage, thereby avoiding subsequent hospitalizations. I see my established relationship with the African Health Initiative as a great resource for doctoral studies. At XXXX University I have learned that our foremost duty is to uphold principles of social justice and equality, solidarity and the protection of life and dignity of every human being. Now, I want to shoulder the battle flag in the struggle to protect the lives and dignity of the world’s poor and vulnerable populations, working with an international health organization, designing community wellness programs and hypertension control initiatives.

I am a Russian woman from Latvia and a nurse who has now made her home in America. At 32, I feel strongly that I am now at my optimal point for a return to full time study in my field. My main area of interest is cardiology and I a looking for a way to give something back to my community in this area. I have chosen to specialize in this area because of my long time fascination with the heart and the way in which this organ is involved in so many crippling diseases. Also, however, my choice was motivated by what I understand to be a shortage of primary care providers that have advanced training in cardiology. As a cardiac nurse practitioner I will fulfill similar functions to that of a cardiac nurse but with more autonomy and I will have the privilege of greatly refining my ability to diagnose and successfully treat even the most acute and chronic cardiac diseases. It is my hope to work in a cardiology practice laboring to prevent occurrence and reoccurrences of heart conditions among our patients, advising and educating patients and their families about healthier lifestyle habits. Among cardiology issues, all of which I work very hard to stay current in, I devote extra time to studying the literature as well as popular conceptions about cholesterol reduction, cholesterol intake, and the role of daily exercise in the regimens of patients with heart disease. I look forward to dedicating the balance of my professional life to working with patients with existing heart complaints and providing rehabilitative care to patients following heart surgery. I have been fascinated with cardiovascular disease processes since I began nursing school. Thus, having the opportunity to specialize in cardiac issues as central to further graduate study is for me the fulfillment of a longstanding professional dream. I am especially excited about the prospect of being able to devote myself again to full time study so that I will become an authentic expert in the area of evidence-based medical practices and the ongoing debates and creative research taking place in the area of cost-effective care. Your MSN Program will inspire and equip me to excel at patient education concerning the core lifestyle changes that are required in order to prevent or postpone the onset of heart disease. My passion for nursing was greatly reinforced about four years ago when my grandmother, also a nurse, died from cancer. Shortly after, I had my first child. I decided then that the time to act was now; no other career would allow me to live out all of the principles that I hold most dear. I am passionate about the basic right of every individual to a healthy life, and I am committed to helping them to achieve that life. Since I started nursing school, I always knew that I wanted to further my education to become as Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP), moving beyond care giving and having the challenge and responsibility of sharing in diagnosis, treatment, and the cure of disease, developing treatment plans, and evaluating patient response to treatment. I want a lifetime of patient examinations, diagnosing and treating different infections and injuries, ordering and examining diagnostic tests, as well as writing prescriptions. My passion for cardiology is matched only by my love for the elderly. As America continues to age, I find myself gravitating more and more to geriatric issues. I feel that it is my duty to respond to the demographic realities of my community. For me, it will also be an honor to devote myself not only to cardiology, but also an advocate for more healthy lifestyles for our geriatric citizens.

1.) I am applying to the University of XXXX because I am convinced that your program is the finest DNP program available for an applicant with my specific interests and focus: on Africa. In my humble opinion, the greatest weakness of my application to your program is my age; I am 52. Nevertheless, I hope and pray that you will look favorably on my application because of my profound dedication to health care and nursing in Africa. I am from Africa, raised in Africa; I know my homeland very well, my native Cameroon in particular. I am in very good health and an extremely hard worker who lives for nursing. Upon my retirement in the USA, I look forward to dedicating the balance of my life to the development of nursing care in Africa and I fully intend to give my all to this area until I am no longer able to do so. I came to America 25 years ago, a wife, a mother; I initially put my own education on the back burner to support my husband who earned his Masters and then his PHD. When my marriage ended, I raised my 4 children all alone at the same time that I went to nursing school. Now, all of my children are in college except the littlest one who is 10 years old. I now have 14 years of experience in nursing and I finished my BSN this past May, 2013. I am currently working two positions as a nurse, 64 hours per week, and I enjoy every minute that I spend in uniform. 2.) My future goals for my professional career are to continue to build on my extensive experience in nursing and to become a leader in my field, especially with respect to nursing in Africa. I now have extensive nursing experience in NICU and Med-surg and I am presently working in Psychiatry and substance abuse. My current position has helped me to better understand the needs of people at the homeless shelter where I have spent a lot of what little free time that I have. I also have a special passion for diabetes education, HIV, and nutrition. I plan to continue to work here in the USA for the next 13 years or so until I retire, at the same time that I build bridges with nurses in Africa so that I am highly knowledgeable about nursing leadership in Africa. I see retirement at 65 not as the end of my career, however, but the beginning of my crowning effort as a nurse, my return to Africa to work as a nursing leader in my native Cameroon, educating our nurses so that they will be more effective in educating our communities about communicable diseases and health maintenance. The communities in Cameroon (West Africa) where I originally come from are very, very poor and most people lack access to any kind of health care. This is why prevention of disease is so critically important for my people. At 65, I hope to launch a new career in Africa for another 15 to 20 years, teaching health maintenance and prevention of disease to nurses and other health care professionals. 3.) Your program is my first choice for graduate school because of my profound respect and admiration for your emphasis on the importance of innovation, learning and discovery. Most of all, however, I appreciate your recognition and emphasis on the importance of preparing ‘culturally proficient’ nurses for service to our ‘global society’. I see this as Africa’s best and perhaps only hope for radical improvement in our health care systems, solidarity with the global health care community. My own central goal and professional vision entails helping to design and implement health education campaigns and disease prevention strategies, such as immunization and screenings, HIV education and other communicable diseases. I look forward to serving as an advocate for those with the greatest need, the most vulnerable members of our communities, the underserved. I plan to work closely with local, state, and federal authorities in Cameroon to improve access to health services for our poorest communities, mostly in rural areas where little to no health care service currently exist. At the same time that I want to give my all to my land of origin, Cameroon, I want to do so in a way that contributes to our understanding of the great health care challenges faced by the entire continent of Africa, and to share experiences and strategies with other nursing professionals and educators continent wide, and in this way build solidarity between our nations in our efforts to improve health care systems and structures. I see myself working for a non-profit organization in Africa with a focus on improving access to health care, especially with respect to HIV prevention, addressing the stigmas attached to the disease. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for your consideration of my application to your distinguished program.

I have made some ‘false starts’ in my choice of career. The mistakes I have made have been painful and confusing but I now feel that these experiences can have a positive effect on my life and future. They have provided me with much experience relevant to this application and have ultimately led me to submitting it which I do with genuine enthusiasm and optimism. I come from a small rural community where everyone knows everyone else. It is the kind of community where service and neighborliness are not outdated concepts but natural and necessary components of the way of life. From my earliest years, I wanted to be of use to members of my community or one very much like it. I decided to become a pharmacist and began my bachelor degree studies with this goal in mind. However, after much thought, I decided that this choice would not provide the frequent and close interaction with patients that I felt that I needed for a satisfying career in healthcare. Consequently, I decided to pursue medicine but, after multiple applications, I was unable to gain entry into a program. I have undertaken a very significant amount of voluntary activity related to my goal of working in healthcare including one year working at a nursing home and another as an intern in a hospital. I learned a great deal during this time. I have learned about the various roles of medical professionals and how they interact, medical terminology and key signs, amongst much else. Just as importantly, I learnt the value of a smile, a squeezed hand when interacting with anxious or confused patients and the important difference between merely caring for patients and caring about them. I have also become aware of the important need to interpret non-verbal signals from patients and to respond sensitively to them. I became aware of the role of P.A.s during these internships and, when I decided to reconsider my attempts to enter medical school, I looked carefully at other healthcare career avenues. I was encouraged by a P.A. who I knew well to shadow her and to consider her role as a career option myself. This P.A. has been an excellent mentor who has encouraged me to make this application. Having carefully observed her work over several months, I am convinced that the role of P.A. will fully satisfy my original career goals and personal aspirations. I am very much attracted by the fact that so much of a P.A.’s time is spent dealing directly with patients on an autonomous basis, by the variety of the conditions and patients treated and the opportunity to apply and develop practical, diagnostic, academic and interpersonal skills on a daily basis. I have very carefully considered the characteristics required of an excellent P.A. and I am confident that I possess them. I believe myself to be an observant, diligent and caring person. I am also attracted by the fact that opportunities for specialism exist within the profession. I hope that it might be possible to assist in clinical trials of drugs especially those relating to the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease. During my work in a nursing home, I became very aware of, and interested in, the challenges that aging present and am aware that society will need to consider these matters much more closely in the near future as the proportion of the elderly rapidly increases in the population. I enjoyed working with the elderly and hope to assist in their care in future in a rural practice setting. It is also relevant to the application to mention that I undertook useful research on the use of Chantix (an anti smoking drug), during my bachelor degree studies and published a paper on my findings. I enjoyed the project very much and look forward to undertaking further research. I am aware of the special need for cultural sensitivity in the provision of healthcare. I have travelled widely in Europe and spent three months in Greece working in a hospital pharmacy. I have happily studied and worked with people of many cultural and social backgrounds and look forward to extending this experience further in the program. I know that there will be many well qualified applicants for the program. However I do consider myself to be an excellent candidate. I hold a bachelor degree in which my major subjects are highly relevant to the program; I have undertaken much voluntary work in a medical environment including substantial and positive interaction with patients; I am fully aware of the day to day work of a P.A. and am confident in my ability to succeed in the role. My main recommendation, however, is a genuine and passionately held determination to provide excellent healthcare services, hopefully to members of a medically underserved rural community.

We were forced to abandon our African home in Liberia in 2001 as a result of a brutal civil war. We were fortunate to arrive safely as a family in one of Staten Island’s worst neighborhoods. I have witnessed a great deal of poverty and misery and this has helped to prepare me for serving as a devoted and compassionate medical professional. As a teenager, I volunteered at a day care center, which served to fire a special love for children and a passionate interest in child development. My long term goal is to be able to make important contributions to pediatric health care in my native Africa at some point in the future. I am deeply saddened by the fact that so many children die every day simply because their families cannot afford to pay for medical attention. I feel strongly that no mother should have to watch her baby die in her arms. I want to be one of the health care providers who work to prevent this from happening. My own painful experiences have left me with an exceptional empathy for those in need. I have worked as a direct care provider for mentally disabled adults and the elderly. The most important thing that I have learned in doing so is the immense value of a smile, a squeezed hand or a shared joke. Putting the schedule first is a great temptation when dealing with a group of people who all need a lot of help but vulnerable patients need to feel that they are being helped by people who care about them and not merely people who are paid to care for them. I genuinely do care about people especially the vulnerable. I have also acquired an appreciation of the importance of non-verbal communication in providing proper care and I intend to develop this skill in the future. I admit that I have not been an ‘A’ student. However I realized in my freshman year at nursing college that I was failing to achieve my actual academic potential. I sought to identify and correct what was going amiss in my studying techniques. I realized that I was too ready to move on from topics that I had not fully understood or mastered to the next. I resolved to correct this by studying as much from the prescribed text books as from my own notes and to be sure that I thoroughly understood a topic before attempting to grasp a new one. My new approach was successful and I now build new knowledge only on firm foundations. I am aware of the great importance of cultural sensitivity in the provision of health care. My background has helped in achieving this awareness. I have also happily worked, studied and socialized with people from many cultural and social backgrounds. I look forward to extending my knowledge of other cultures within the program. I have carefully considered what characteristics and skills are required of an excellent PA and believe that I possess them or can acquire them within the program. I am particularly interested in assisting in research related to the prevention and treatment of illnesses in early childhood. I know that PA programs attract many well qualified applicants. However I genuinely believe that I am an excellent candidate. I have significant experience of providing patient care and love doing so; while I have not been a ‘stellar’ performer academically, I undertake total commitment to the program and intend to excel rather than merely complete it; my personal and professional experiences have provided insights that will be interesting and useful to my class; my main recommendation however is my passionate ambition to become a first class PA.

I am of Chinese ethnicity though born in Laos and raised in France. I moved to the US to study at XXXX University. I speak Chinese, French and English and am currently learning Spanish. My goal is to qualify as a pharmacist and, eventually to run my own pharmacy. I hold a bachelor degree in Finance and most of my working experience has been in computer sales and service though I currently work as a qualified Pharmacy Technician. My change of direction was prompted by significantly increasing competition in my chosen field and, consequently, an income that did not adequately reward my considerable skills and knowledge. Having decided to look for a new direction, I applied the following criteria: a field that interested me, one in which I could help others, one in which my natural aptitudes and academic strengths would enable me to excel and one where demand is increasing. I concluded that pharmacy was by far the ‘best fit’ for my needs. The two fields in which I have worked may not appear to have much connection, however when a client brought me a ‘sick’ computer it was necessary to apply diagnostic techniques that would be familiar in healthcare. I always considered the computer to be analogous to the human body with the processor as the brain, the keyboard and mouse as the eyes and ears, the power supply as the heart and lungs and anti-virus software as an antibiotic. I have carefully considered the core skills required of a pharmacist and observed them applied by others in my current work. I consider that I possess, or can acquire, all the required core skills. I have proven and significant experience in many of them, such as highly developed communication skills, problem solving, critical thinking, effective prioritization, decision making and having a meticulous eye for detail. I excel in math and love science. I also have ‘diagnostic’ experience, though I am fully aware of the complexity of the body in comparison with even the most sophisticated computer. My current work involves the verification and entry of prescription orders into the computer system; preparation of medication by mixing, counting and labeling. I am familiar with insurance billing and liaison. I thoroughly enjoy working in a pharmaceutical environment and have learned much by observing and talking to the pharmacists. This experience has fully confirmed me in my choice. As a sufferer of Type 2 Diabetes, I have personal experience of the benefits of excellent healthcare advice. I have avoided the need for medication through the lessons learned at nutrition classes and the use of a glucose meter. I hope that it might be possible for me to assist in research related to the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes. I am aware that cultural awareness and sensitivity is especially important in the field of healthcare. I have happily worked, studied and socialized with people of many different cultural and social backgrounds and enjoy sharing knowledge of my own with others. I also know that communication with elderly people is an extremely important component of retail pharmacy and calls for patience and a genuine desire to help them obtain the most effective outcomes. I am also aware of the importance of non-verbal signals in communication in a healthcare environment. I know that there will be many highly qualified applicants for the program. However I genuinely believe that I am an excellent candidate. I have excelled in those studies and work in which I have been involved to date by applying my natural diligence and curiosity, I have relevant voluntary and work experience together with relevant qualifications, however my main recommendation is a passion for pharmacy which will enable me to excel within the program.

I was raised in a poor community in rural Nepal in which health service provision was scarce and expensive. I resolved at an early age that I would be involved in providing this invaluable service. I have never wavered in this decision and all my studies, voluntary and professional work since have confirmed me in my vocation. I made the most of the educational opportunities open to me and was ultimately awarded the MBBS degree. During my studies, I was heavily involved in various voluntary activities including fund raising for the Poor Patient Fund, providing basic medical check-up’s and free medicines for senior citizens and in a campaign to diagnose and follow up patients suffering hypertension and diabetes. I found these activities to be enormously instructive and rewarding. Following undergraduate studies, I worked in hospitals for two years, initially, in XXXXl Teaching Hospital as a Junior House Officer in the Pediatrics Department. In addition to the normal duties of a J.H.O, I successfully applied for training in neonatal intensive care. There followed a broadening of my experience in a larger local hospital. Since March 2008, I have worked for a US based organization, XXXX Health International in the Marshall Islands. The islands were used as a nuclear testing site during the 1950’s and my job includes caring for those exposed to radiation and their families. I also give physical exams, prescribe, admit and refer. In addition, I am involved in various activities such as immunization, a TB and leprosy control program and conducting school health check-ups. I consider myself to be a broadly experienced health professional with well developed health provision skills. While these are very important, I am fully aware that an empathetic nature and the ability to distinguish the patient as an individual apart from his or her symptoms and to treat them as such, is what marks out a truly effective health professional. I have also developed the vital skill of reading non-verbal signals from patients. It is now my goal to qualify as a Physician Assistant in order to enhance my skills and knowledge and thus make me more effective in helping others. I am particularly interested in assisting in research relating to pain management in the chronically ill, especially cancer patients. Whilst I am willing to work anywhere, I would hope to find employment in the US working in a poor community in a rural setting including the provision of basic health education in addition to health care. I am aware that cultural sensitivity and awareness is especially important in health service provision. I have been exposed to various cultures, having been to the US, Thailand, India, the Philippines and China. I have also happily worked with and treated people of various cultural and social backgrounds. I genuinely consider myself to be an exceptional candidate, I have a directly relevant degree, I have several years of highly relevant experience and I possess the characteristics required of a very effective Physician Assistant. I look forward to ‘adding value’ to my class by sharing the fruits of my background.