Personal Statement: A Career As A Physical Therapist

Funny how cliché it is for your parents to tell you as a kid, “When you grow up you 're going to be a successful Doctor or Lawyer”. My parents definitely told me that, but I paid no mind. I actually didn 't like the idea. Maybe one of the reasons was that my mother dressed me up in scrubs in the sixth grade and everyone made fun of me. Although, as time progressed and I got older I started thinking maybe a career in the medical field could be for me. After long ordeals in my head about how I didn 't want to be working at McDonalds for the rest of my life, I decided I wanted to join the medical field as a Physical Therapist. In a decade I hope to be working as a Physical Therapist, live in a two-story house, be happily married, and have a

To fulfill these dreams there are numerous amounts of steps I have to take and a lot of work to be done. In the next five years I want to have earned my bachelors degree in Kine-siology with a concentration in exercise science from California State University San Bernardi-no. Once I get my bachelors I want to be accepted into the Physical Therapy program at Califor-nia State North Ridge. The reason I will be attending California State San Bernardino for my bachelors degree is because cost of tuition is fairly low and it’s a forty-minute drive from the city I currently live in. I will still be working at my part-time job for the City of Chino and will be putting money aside for the expenses of my masters program. By this time I will be old enough to qualify as an independent on my FAFSA application and in turn get financial aid to help me get through my last two semesters at San Bernardino. I want to keep over a three point five grade point average so I have better chances of being accepted into a Physical Therapy program. It is also very important that I score well on the GRE exam; this will ensure I have a competitive and increase my chances of attending California State University NorthRidgeAs for my personal life I hope to have a steady girlfriend and maybe even finance. She will have her own goals and be pursuing educations as well. Also I would like to maintain my passion for fitness and improve myself physically. That’s because I wouldn 't be happy if I stopped lifting

Before all these wonderful things happen in five years, in the next three years I will be attending Chaffey College working on my goal to transfer and be working a part-time job. These three years will be focusing on getting my sixty units to transfer to California State San Bernardino. That’s because a high grade point average is not required to transfer to this school. Although I want to strive to maintain a grade point higher than a three point five. The reason being is that the Kinesiology department is impacted. I want to better my chances of get-ting in with ease. My main focus is my general education and I really want to get my transfer units high. I will be busy with my job so I will most likely be taking nine units each semester and one class in the summer. I will only be in my early twenties but I would like to have a steady girlfriend and keep my focuses on school, fitness, and work. Sadly to say I will still be living with my parents because lets face it, living on your own is