personal statement

Hi, I'm applying this year and I was stuck with writing my personal statement. This is my first time ever writing a serious personal statement. I'm not very confident with how I have presented myself, so would really appreciate someone could give me some feedback on my PS.

Hey guys. I'm currently a sophomore doing public health as my major. I so far have a 3.75 gpa and a PCAT composite of 92. I am currently a pharm tech trainee (at cvs) working 20 hrs a week but I should be a licensed tech by thanksgiving. My only real contributions to the community post high...

I remember reading that the personal statement can be used to explain not-so-stellar (numerical) aspects of your application. My transcript for the first two years was generally B's in sciences and A's in non-sciences (e.g. writing/literature-based), but my third year transcript was straight...

Does anyone know if you're a reapplicant do you need to make a new personal statement? I called ICO and they said I didn't because if I get a supplemental application there should be a part on it where I explain what I've done since I applied last. Are other schools similar in that sense? Thanks

Hey guys, I hope your semester is going well! I just wanted to come here an ask someone who is currently applying or has already applied to med school. What was the general timeline you followed the year you were applying? In terms of personal statement writing, asking for letters of...

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I was wondering if anybody with some experience of personal statements would be willing to look over mine. Send me a PM if you are able to. Thanks in advance.

Hey all! Looking for some feedback on my PS, if anyone is willing to read it and give comments, I would truly appreciate it! Looking for comments/opinions on content rather than grammatical editing. Thank you! If you're interested, just let me know and I can send it to you.

Hello everyone! As you all know, Match 2017 medical residency applications begin September 15! Get help with your personal statement, CV, LOR (if asked to write your own), and anything else you may need from three medical graduates who have already been through it all and understand exactly...

I'm an IMG and I don't have a clue as to what a personal statement should look like as I've never had to write one. I've read a few tips on what a personal statement should be like, but I still feel I'll need tons of help in this area. The sort of money some of the agencies that claim to help...

I made the switch to pre-dental from pre-medical within the last three months and am trying to apply this summer (taking DAT in two weeks). I know, a bit crazy but I completed my shadowing/pre-reqs and have a decent amount of extracurriculars so I thought I would give it my all this summer...

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Hi all! I am applying for osteopathic school this cycle, is there anyone that would be kind enough to offer some constructive criticism on mine? If you've already gone through the process and got accepted already that would be a huge help as well. :) Thank you!

Is anyone else having trouble when they copy and paste their statement? When I save it, it doesn't actually save. Just curious if anyone else is experiencing that. Thanks

Hi! Would someone be willing to look at my statement of interest that is currently in Belmont or Huntington's OTD program? I am not sure what they are looking for exactly, and I'd like to see if I am on the right track. Thanks!

Hello, Would anyone be willing to take a look at my personal statement? I'd appreciate any feedback I can get. Thanks!

Hi guys can someone please give me some feed back on my personal statement for medical school? Thank you so much in advance!

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The Application Essay Do's: 1. Unite your essay and give it direction with a theme or thesis. The thesis is the main point you want to communicate. 2. Before you begin writing, choose what you want to discuss and the order in which you want to discuss it. 3. Use concrete examples from your...

For my personal statement, AMCAS underlined a few words and i'm really not sure why, they weren't even marked incorrect by Word. Should I just submit it anyways or change them up? Words such as: symptomatology bioelectricity criticality etc...

I know this is the opposite of what people usually have to deal with, but in my case the LOR writer wrote my letter waaaaaay sooner than I expected. Here's what happened... I am in a dual degree program so this is technically my 5th year in medical school. Last year (4th year) I was on an...

I went back and looked at my AMCAS personal statement....and I realized its ALL ONE BIG BLOB AND NO PARAGRAPHS. I worked extremely hard and I thought it was a great essay. However, now that I see its like this I'm afraid medical schools will overlook me from the get go. Any advice??

Hello all, I've been a lurker here for a while now but this is my first post. I've been drafting my personal statement letter for some time and I've hit a wall. A little background information is necessary before I go further. I've had a career in emergency medical services for 6 years now, 5...

Which I'm totally fine with doing, but from the advice here it seemed like short and concise personal statements were the norm. As of right now I have two personal statements, one short and one long. The shorter one focuses on my love of dentistry and my desire to be a dentist, and the longer...

hello all, So I already submitted my primary but I've been a bit anxious. During my sophomore years of college I fell ill and experienced a traumatic death in my family. Anyways this did affect my grades. I devoted my personal statement to this story explaining that the experiences ultimately...

Hi everyone, I've been sending my ps to friends and family for input/feedback, but I'd also like to see what a stranger learns about me from my statement--whether or not it actually conveys what I'm trying to show about me and why I chose OT. Would anyone like to swap/proofread? PM me please...

I submitted my personal statement after having written the document in microsoft word. I copied then pasted the document to the AMCAS application, and after re-reading it. I submitted. When I go to look at everything after submission, it deleted my last 4 letters of my personal statement.... and...

Title says it all. I have my first draft done but it definitely requires some work. Any free or inexpensive services I should take advantage of when review/rewriting? I graduated college a while ago and my writing seems a bit rusty. Also, its a lot tougher than i thought to put my whole life...

Title says it all. I have my first draft done but it definitely requires some work. Any free or inexpensive services I should take advantage of when review/rewriting? I graduated college a while ago and my writing seems a bit rusty. Also, its a lot tougher than i thought to put my whole life...

Show them you've got what it takes to be a valuable addition to a medical team. To get into medical school, you explained why you wanted to be a physician. Now that you're an M.D./D.O., you need to show them you've got what it takes to be a valuable addition to a medical team. To that end, your...

Hi SDN community, I'm new here and this is my first post. I'm sorry if this post is where it shouldn't be, but I looked everywhere for 'personal statement review' threads, but couldn't find a "main" one. Anyway, this is my personal statement. Helpful and honest criticism would be greatly...

I will be submitting my app within the next day or two. all I need to finish is my personal statement. I have been getting positive feedback from friends and doctors I know, but I am afraid they aren't being totally unbiased. Can one of you kind strangers take an objective look at my PS?

The current draft of my PS says that I want to be a psychiatrist. It says this exactly once in the opening paragraph, and never again. This was a tactical decision because I volunteered at a suicide crisis hotline, my PS contains anecdotes which are most closely aligned with psychiatry, and I...

My personal statement includes a sentence saying that I support harm reduction for drug addiction, including needle exchanges and buprenorphine. Is this too controversial? I mean, this feels very non-controversial for a med school app. One reason I mention it is because I have been fighting...

Background: I did a crowdfunding campaign to raise money to purchase an ultrasound machine for a hospital I volunteered at in Tanzania. It took eighteen months, but it worked: $8K and a new ultrasound. I'm thinking of introducing this as the first part of my PS in a...

Just wondering how immature it looks to adcoms to talk about a specific specialty that drove you to medicine. Mine was ID, and I talk about what aspects I shadowed brought me to want to be a clinician specifically. Is it bad to talk about an IM specialty...? I feel I have read it goes both...

After withdrawing last cycle, I decided to take a new approach with my PS and re-wrote it, thus leaving out a bunch of info that was mentioned in the original PS. Seeing as I never mentioned the parts of my original PS in any other area of my primary application, would it be ridiculous to take a...