Medical
School Personal Statement Guide
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Medical School Personal Statement Guide
Admissions
officers will often emphasize that they don't care what you choose to write
about in your essay. They stress this because most writers err on the side of
unoriginality, having tried too hard to meet the expectations of their imagined
readers, discarding all of their own personality in the process. Of course,
there's truth in their advice: you should write with the goal of expressing your
own values and conveying the qualities most important to you. You should frame
this discussion in a way that highlights your unique character. But you must
exercise your creativity with an eye toward the themes and points that will
justify your suitability for medicine. After all, your ultimate goal is not just
to stand out as a likeable person, but to obtain admission to a medical school.
In
addition to the challenge of crafting a fresh take on standard ideas, you face
the difficulty of integrating multiple sophisticated themes into a single
coherent piece. The themes can be grouped into two basic categories: those that
speak to your motivation for becoming a doctor and those that demonstrate the
characteristics and abilities that qualify you for the profession.
Within
these two categories we will make recommendations for more specific points and
the various ways you can approach them. First, however, we will explore what
medical school admissions officers look for in personal statements. In addition,
we will devote a section to the task of making your essay stand out by
emphasizing the qualities that make you unique, even if they don't seem
obviously related to medicine. Finally,
we will offer tips on how to deal with blemishes on your application, like low
MCAT scores or a lack of work experience.
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