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After June 15th, your AMCAS submissions may have delayed verification, delayed reception by schools, and therefore delayed secondaries.
Your primary should, at this point, be nearing its final form. At this stage, small changes make a meaningful difference in how admissions committees perceive your voice, clarity, and focus.
Here is one technique we use at Asclepius Advising to write great primaries: Read your entire application out loud.
This includes your personal statement, Work & Activities section, most meaningful experiences. Set aside about an hour and engage in this read-through as a deliberate, active revision strategy.
Reading your work aloud is more than a proofreading trick. It’s a fundamental tool of persuasive communication. It helps you engage directly with the tone, flow, and logic of your writing in real time. It also ensures your narrative sounds human and confident: qualities that are essential not just for the written application, but also for future secondary essays and interviews.
Reading out loud reveals:
How to use technology and AI!
Using a free TTS tool—such as your device's built-in reader or Natural Readers—helps you hear your writing as someone else would.
Join Asclepius Advising for a Read Out Loud Session and let's make your primary shine!
Your primary should, at this point, be nearing its final form. At this stage, small changes make a meaningful difference in how admissions committees perceive your voice, clarity, and focus.
Here is one technique we use at Asclepius Advising to write great primaries: Read your entire application out loud.
This includes your personal statement, Work & Activities section, most meaningful experiences. Set aside about an hour and engage in this read-through as a deliberate, active revision strategy.
Reading your work aloud is more than a proofreading trick. It’s a fundamental tool of persuasive communication. It helps you engage directly with the tone, flow, and logic of your writing in real time. It also ensures your narrative sounds human and confident: qualities that are essential not just for the written application, but also for future secondary essays and interviews.
Reading out loud reveals:
- Awkward or repetitive phrasing
- Sentences that lack clarity or momentum
- Gaps in logic, particularly in longer essays
- A mismatch between voice and message—e.g., sounding overly formal, passive, or distant
- Find a quiet space where you can focus without distraction.
- Read your application out loud, slowly and deliberately.
- Mark any sections that feel unnatural, repetitive, or unclear as you go. Don’t stop to edit, just highlight.
- Review your notes and revise the most distracting or awkward areas.
How to use technology and AI!
Using a free TTS tool—such as your device's built-in reader or Natural Readers—helps you hear your writing as someone else would.
- It removes your internal bias: You know what you meant, so your brain fills in the gaps. TTS doesn't. It reads exactly what you wrote.
- It makes awkward phrasing obvious: Repetition, clunky sentence structures, and overly long ideas jump out when heard.
- It’s great for rhythm and tone: TTS reveals if your narrative has a natural flow—or if it drones on.
- Paste your personal statement, Work & Activities section, and most meaningfuls into a TTS tool.
- Listen all the way through. Don’t pause to edit—just make notes.
- Highlight sections that feel robotic, off-tone, or confusing when read aloud.
Join Asclepius Advising for a Read Out Loud Session and let's make your primary shine!
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