Personal Statement
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Applying to Medical School
Tips for Writing Your Personal Statement for Medical School
By: Alex Withers You’ve done it! You’ve made it through those 300 student organic chemistry classes. You’ve taken your MCAT…
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Pre-Med Academics
Forging Friendships Freshman Year
When I was a freshman advisor at Duke, one issue that I frequently discussed with my advisees was how they…
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Applying to Medical School
Separating the Best Medical School Personal Statements from the Mean
The Medical School Admissions Dilemma You’ve probably read the statistic that almost 60% of medical school applicants do not matriculate…
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Applying to Medical School
Weekly Weigh-in: Personal Statement Writing Process
Welcome to PDr’s Weekly Weigh-in! Each week, we ask medical students and physicians to weigh in on some of our…
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Articles
Brainstorming Your Personal Statement for Medical School
It is intensely difficult to write a personal statement, and perhaps the most difficult part is starting. What a daunting…
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PDr Review – Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League
I recently read this article by William Deresiewicz called Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League and thought it was…
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Non-Traditional Student Personal Statement Example
Because many medical school applicants today are non-traditional students, we wanted to provide a successful non-traditional student personal statement example.…
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Motivation for Medicine: This Moment
Since starting medical school a short three months ago, I have been told repeatedly what an exciting time it is…
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Emily’s Path Part 3: A Supportive Partner
Applying to medical school takes a tremendous amount of effort. It is expensive and time-consuming, and can also be draining,…
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Emily’s Path Part 1: Why I Applied to Medical School
After an arduous, often heart-breaking, demoralizing, seemingly endless, meaningless, and fruitless three years of applying, I finally got into medical…
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