 What's up you guys? The Donna welcome back to my channel. So I've been getting a lot of questions on personal statements and PE school applications and just kind of all the information related to that whole process. So I decided to make a video specifically on the worst thing that you could possibly ever do on your personal statement. If you are interested in getting a personalized consultation session with me because you guys know I do do those and for those of you who don't know I do do consultation sessions for pre-PAs that are trying to get into PA school. Please be sure to go to the description box below. I will leave a link there. You can sign up for your consultation session with me and we can kind of knock through some of your own personalized questions to you. You'll get a full hour with me via like video chat or some sort of video communication or on the phone if that's what you prefer. This video is about the personal statement. So with respect to the personal statement I think it's like the key to getting you an interview right. If you have a bomb personal statement some of your other things that may not be as stellar I guess you could say will kind of fall by the wayside. You got to get your personal statement up and with that being said I feel like the worst thing that you could do on your personal statement is lie. For those of you who that may be difficult that may be a difficult task like listen up because you do not want to lie in a personal statement for those of you who are you know completely honest then hey you're good. I mean you just kind of have to make sure that you're sounding interesting and you want to be like the person that they want to allow to get an interview and essentially allow into their school. And with lying lying encompasses a whole lot you guys because I've done these sessions before where I'm reading personal statements and some of these personal statements sound exactly the same and if not exactly the same very similar and that's because they are taking pieces of other personal statements that they find online or hosted up somewhere and they're adding it and incorporating it into their own personal statement and then it just sounds really cookie-cutter or like the exact personal statement that I can Google. And so that is also lying it's being deceptive and if you're copying somebody else's personal statement to try to get into PA school no don't do that it's not personal to you it's not gonna get you in and they do check this stuff okay they reserve the right a lot of schools reserve the right to check and see if everything that you put into your application is honest and truthful and that includes your personal statement so be honest be truthful because that is the best thing that you could possibly ever do if you lie on the personal statement and they come back and they find out that you lied on that personal statement for instance if you got into school and you lied most schools have these contracts where they have you kind of sign a contract saying that you know everything that you're saying is truthful and honest and CASPA has that contract as well so if you break that by lying on your personal statement you can be kicked out of the program so please do not lie ensure that you are giving yourself a fighting chance and do not make that mistake because that is the worst the absolute worst thing that you can do on your personal statement if you have not seen my other videos on personal statements like where I share my own personal statements or my husband gives you tips you know from a creative writing standpoint on the personal statement please be sure to just kind of type in personal statement in the search bar when you get home if you're not watching on like a computer you know your computer or whatnot and you can find that information there I think it's really helpful and I hopefully it helps some of you as you continue to cultivate what you want in your personal statement be sure to follow me on Instagram at it on the PA and like this video and subscribe if you have not already done so thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time