88: Writing Personal Statements for Medical School
The Premed Years
Ryan Gray
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2014
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In today’s episode, I talk with Dr. Greg Polites. For his third time on the show, Greg talks about the dos and don’ts of writing personal statements and why students make mistakes on personal statements.
Links and Other Resources:
- Full Episode Blog Post
- Check out my book on personal statements, The Premed Playbook: Guide to the Medical School Personal Statement.
- Check out my Personal Statement Writing Course.
- Check out my Personal Statement Editing service.
- Related episode: How to Write Personal Statements with Dr. Arora
- Related episode: How to Start Brainstorming Your Personal Statement Draft
- Need MCAT Prep? Save on tutoring, classes, and full-length practice tests by using promo code “MSHQ” at Next Step Test Prep!
Transcript
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| 0:45.7 | MAPSCPCon presented by Blueprint MCAT. I will see you there. |
| 0:49.8 | If you're applying to medical school in 2022 to start medical school in |
| 0:55.0 | 2023, join me Wednesday or Thursday, Wednesday night at 930 PM |
| 1:00.7 | Eastern or Thursday at 11 a.m. eastern or Thursday at 11 a.m. eastern at pre-med workshop.com go |
| 1:07.5 | register today. I'm going to show you how to tell your story in your |
| 1:11.7 | application again that's pre-med workshop dot com if you are to tell your story in your application. |
| 1:12.5 | Again that's pre-Med Workshop.com. |
| 1:14.4 | If you are applying to medical school in 2022, |
| 1:17.3 | be there or B-square. |
| 1:20.0 | The Medical School HQ podcast, Session Number 88. |
| 1:24.5 | Ultimately what you want to do in your personal statement is give schools a glimpse of who you are, you know, the person behind the application, behind the paper. |
| 1:37.0 | Hey, this is Z Dogg MD, rapper, physician, legendary, turntable health revolutionary and part-time Gardner, |
| 1:43.7 | and you're listening to the Medical School HQ podcast |
| 1:46.9 | hosted by the irredeemably awesome Ryan Gray. I am your host Dr. Ryan Gray and I believe that competition amongst your pre-med and medical student |
| 2:06.6 | peers is detrimental to becoming a great physician. |
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