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I'm trying to draft up a personal statement for the upcoming application season and can't come up with anything. Can someone give me some advice?
junathon said:I'm trying to draft up a personal statement for the upcoming application season and can't come up with anything. Can someone give me some advice?
Bones2008 said:Note that there are ways to do this besides directly addressing the question: "Why do I want to be a doctor?" A lot of secondaries ask you this question, anyways, so why waste your personal statement answering it? Avoid the cliche taglines and stories -- the adcoms have seen them all before. Try your best to present the person that is you. Good luck.
Bones2008 said:Avoid the cliche taglines and stories -- the adcoms have seen them all before. Try your best to present the person that is you. Good luck.
This may help:junathon said:I'm trying to draft up a personal statement for the upcoming application season and can't come up with anything. Can someone give me some advice?
The PS is important. It separates the men from the boys and women from the girls.Adapt said:I don't think the personal statment matters much but that is just my opinion. As long as it is well written and basically describes your experiences, you're set. It took me a couple of hours to do it, and I had someone good in English proofread it. It's no big deal.
junathon said:What are those cliche taglines and stories?