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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?