*~*~Official Personal Statement Guide and Reader List 2020-2021~*~*

[PapaGuava]

This thread is for this year's applicants who are beginning to work on their personal statements. If you're looking for someone to read your PS, check out the list of volunteers below In the most recent post ONLY!!

Link to last years Personal Statement Reader thread HERE.


If you are willing to volunteer, the thread will be self regulated. Respond below, following the instructions at the end of this post, with your credentials and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). Please read the full list of rules posted below before you volunteer or contact a reader, and good luck to the 2020-2021 applicants!

Specific comments, questions, or complaints can be addressed to myself or any other pre-medical moderator via PM. If I can't answer them they will be forwarded to the rest of the pre-medical senior moderator staff.

Official Personal Statement Guide thread, Alejandro's Personal Statement Advice, and Depakote's Personal Statement Guide/Tips.

• If you are looking for feedback on your personal statement, it is better to PM individual users here whose strengths are better suited to your needs rather than posting a response in this thread.
• Once you contact a reader and they agree to read your personal statement, please email it to them as a Word document with your SDN username in the title. Including your SDN username makes it easier for the readers to keep track of who they've already read for and who they still need to read. DO NOT JUST PM YOUR STATEMENT TO A READER.

Rules for Readers:

• If you would like to be added or deleted from the list, please make sure that you follow the directions below, and add or delete yourself.
• As a volunteer, you may read as many or as few personal statements as you'd like or have time for. If you will be unavailable for a certain time or have been inundated with requests, simply take yourself off of the list using the instructions below
• If you receive a request and are unable to fulfill it, please respond to the writer so he/she is not waiting for a response and can request help from elsewhere.
• For your protection, we will not allow you to post your email addresses here. All email addresses will be edited out of the list and any further posts containing email addresses will be edited to remove them. Writers will contact you via PM and you can exchange email addresses privately.
• As this is on a volunteer basis, absolutely NO solicitation of money for your services will be tolerated. Volunteers who violate this policy will be removed from the list and subject to further disciplinary action.

Please remember that these people are volunteering their time. Be nice to them!

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
PursuingHappy - Current MD/PhD student, finishing up first year. Received 21 interviews out of applying to 28 places. I received several comments about my PS. Was also a philosophy minor, so I am super critical in writing. I will read for any and everything. Also will read/edit "Why MD/PhD" essays. I will not read research essays. I won't be fully available until July, but will read essays as I can. Just trying to put an active person on here.

Mr. Babe - Don't send me your first or 2nd or 3rd draft.........It needs to be refined already. I'm looking for something good or at least pretty good. Don't waste my time with a crappy PS because I'm only going to tell you to start over. I'll give you a brutally honest assessment of your PS. Absolutely no secondaries.

Readers Not Available:

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[PapaGuava]

With less than a month left before the 2020-2021 application cycle begins, we welcome anyone who would like to volunteer to read over personal statements.

 

[Allosteopath]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

Readers Not Available:

 

[LunaOri]

LunaOri
Clinical faculty member (supervise clerkship students) for 3 medical schools.
Longtime undergrad admissions evaluator.
Parent of admitted medical student.
Will read for grammar and content.

 

[datboi_58]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

datboi_58
Admitted MD student
Content only, will fix obvious grammar mistakes because they bother me


Readers Not Available:

 

[Allosteopath]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

datboi_58
Admitted MD student
Content only, will fix obvious grammar mistakes because they bother me


Readers Not Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

 

[datboi_58]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

Readers Not Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

datboi_58
Admitted MD student
Content only, will fix obvious grammar mistakes because they bother me

 

[marcosma]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
Marcosma - admitted top 5 MD student - content, story, grammar, sentence structure, removing spaces next to dashes --> message me google doc (first come, first served; should be able to get it back to you within 24 hours!)

Readers Not Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

datboi_58
Admitted MD student
Content only, will fix obvious grammar mistakes because they bother me

 

[PursuingHappy]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
PursuingHappy - Current MD/PhD student, finishing up first year. Received 21 interviews out of applying to 28 places. I received several comments about my PS. Was also a philosophy minor, so I am super critical in writing. I will read for any and everything. Also will read/edit "Why MD/PhD" essays. I will not read research essays. I won't be fully available until July, but will read essays as I can. Just trying to put an active person on here.

Readers Not Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred

 

[Mr. Babe]

--DO NOT ERASE THESE INSTRUCTIONS!--
1) Click "quote" on the most recent post.
2) Add your SDN screen name, your credentials, and specific things you are willing to edit for (content only, grammar only, etc). DO NOT post your email address.
3) Delete the quote tags at both the top and the bottom.
4) If you are unable to read any more personal statements, please come back and remove your name from the list and add your name to the "Readers not available" list.

Current Readers Available:
PursuingHappy - Current MD/PhD student, finishing up first year. Received 21 interviews out of applying to 28 places. I received several comments about my PS. Was also a philosophy minor, so I am super critical in writing. I will read for any and everything. Also will read/edit "Why MD/PhD" essays. I will not read research essays. I won't be fully available until July, but will read essays as I can. Just trying to put an active person on here.

Mr. Babe - Don't send me your first or 2nd or 3rd draft.........It needs to be refined already. I'm looking for something good or at least pretty good. Don't waste my time with a crappy PS because I'm only going to tell you to start over. I'll give you a brutally honest assessment of your PS. Absolutely no secondaries.

Readers Not Available:
Allosteopath - Admitted DO Student - General Edits (Content and Grammar to best of ability) => Google Docs Preferred