This is my PTCAS essay, I hope it is helpful for you.  Please don’t copy it or misuse it in any way, it is for your help.

The smell of rich warm coffee fills our tiny yellow apartment as I sit at our round antique dining room table. My head hurts from thinking about life, my career, school, grades, my family and my future. My wife sits down at the table beside me and we start to talk. I had been sitting at the table all afternoon and had been on hundreds of websites with information pertaining to all kinds of different career paths, most of which were in the medical field or pertained to the body in some way. As my wife sipped her coffee, she looked at me with that look I had gotten millions of times before, the look that said, “Well…what do you think?”
I knew what she was thinking. Here was the woman who knew what she wanted to do with her life from birth. She started asking me probing questions and then sat back and let me talk. She wanted me to talk about my deepest passions, ways I wanted to impact lives and about things that intrigued me. As I talked, she soaked it all in. After about thirty minutes, she stopped me and said, “You were born to be a physical therapist.”
At that moment it all made sense. The search for the perfect career, the career that fit me best, something that had troubled me for several years was over. Finally, as a junior in college, the light bulb came on, and I started to think back.
Like most kids, I loved playing sports, almost as a full-time job, soccer, baseball, football, tennis, basketball and cross-country. Not only did I enjoy competing, but I quickly learned about my interest in health. I loved being active and the feeling of being healthy. I saw the benefits of those things very early. As a child, I wasn’t able to relate my passions and interests to the field of physical therapy, but I did realize my love. I remember encouraging my little brother to go on runs with me because I wanted him to feel the way I felt when I ran. I was the kid who didn’t eat any of his Halloween candy, oh, except for butterfingers. I was a 12-year-old wellness advocate and I didn’t even know it!
As I grew a little older, I realized not only was I passionate about a healthy lifestyle for myself, but I wanted to see others strive for the same thing. As a senior in high school, I was one of the captains of our varsity soccer team and of our cross-country team. I had the opportunity to lead workouts and prepare for practices in each sport. Through this, I began to recognize my passion to lead and encourage others, but still didn’t make the connection to the career of physical therapy.
Life continued to go on, and before I knew it I was in my junior year in college, still without a clear-cut idea of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life, which terrified me. I had spoken with several of my professors about medical professions and spent time researching them, all the while, completely neglecting my initial and seemingly inborn passion for physical therapy. As Thomas Edison said regarding his quest to find the perfect material for the light bulb, “I have not failed 1000 times. I have successfully discovered 1000 ways to not make a light bulb.” I had found 1000 professions that did not fit me, but in that struggle for a career path, I found the one that did make the light bulb. Physical therapy.
That day while I was sitting across the table from the woman who knew me better than anyone else, more stressed out than I had been in a long time, all the weight of not knowing what I was going to do was gone. I finally knew. I was no longer searching but striving. I realized that my passion for the body, for helping others live a healthy lifestyle, and for sports, in conjunction with my energetic, extraverted personality all fit perfectly into the physical therapy profession. I love the hands-on, relational approach to patient treatment that physical therapy embraces. I love the variety of people I will get to meet, help, and grow to know. I love the vast amount of possibilities the field offers to be adventurous and reach all kinds of needs in all areas of the world. I love that I will be able to relieve suffering and bring joy to the lives of the people I treat. Everything lined up that day, and ever since then, I have been pursuing this dream of becoming a physical therapist, setting goals, overcoming obstacles, and staying focused on such an exciting career ahead of me!