While the need to stand out holds true for every piece of written material on your applications, your personal statement is the single most important essay you will have to write during your admissions process. The main reason why many qualified applicants are rejected from every med school-or significantly underperform expectations based on their admissions profile-is that they do not stand out on their application essays. After all, you’ve noticed how some applicants receive many interview invitations and acceptances, whereas others receive few or none. We bet you’ve puzzled over why so many qualified applicants are rejected beyond the fact that there are too few spots. With stories like these and the scary statistic that over 60% of medical school applicants do not matriculate into medical school in any given year, it’s hard not to be anxious about the admissions process and wonder how you’ll ever get into medical school.
It’s also common to come across people who have incredibly high stats (e.g., a 3.8 GPA and a 518 MCAT score) but didn’t get into a top-10 or top-20 medical school. You may have even heard of someone who was rejected by over 30 medical schools or who was shut out by every program two years in a row, despite doing “all the right things.” You probably know someone who achieved a solid GPA and MCAT score, conducted research, shadowed physicians, engaged in meaningful volunteer work, and met all the other medical school requirements, yet still got rejected by every school they applied to.
Part 1: Introduction to the medical school personal statement
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