Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relays to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. You are limited to 4500 characters, including spaces. Some formatting characters used in programs like Word (angled quotes, accents, special characters) will not display properly. Take care to review your final text and to make the necessary corrections to the format. Personal Essay should address why you selected pharmacy as a career and how the Doctor of Pharmacy degree relays to your immediate and long-term professional goals. Describe how your personal, educational, and professional background will help you achieve your goals. You are limited to 4500 characters, including spaces. Some formatting characters used in programs like Word (angled quotes, accents, special characters) will not display properly. Take care to review your final text and to make the necessary corrections to the format.