Advisor Corner: Crafting your personal statement for medical or health professional school

This resource is for applications to health & medical professional schools; we also have advice for applications to other types of programs.

Being able to articulate an answer to the question “why medicine?” is critical for an applicant as they apply to medical school. One of the first opportunities for an applicant to convey this message to admissions officers is through their personal comments essay in the AMCAS application. We asked three pre-health advisors how they advise their students to put their best self forward when crafting their personal statements.

By Kate Fukawa-Connelly