One of the services we provide at the Pre-Health Professions Advising Office is a review of your personal statement.
In order to get the greatest benefit from this service, please take the following steps:

     • Writing a personal statement for the application process to a health profession school is a project.
       Writing it involves a creative process that will require you to produce several drafts.
       This process demands considerable thought and attention. Treat your statement accordingly.

     • If you have not been in to meet with a pre-health professions advisor, please make an appointment to do so.
       At this meeting we will discuss with you the application process and the importance of your personal statement in that process.
       This appointment will not be used to review your statement ,
       but rather to give you ideas for starting or revising your statement before you submit it to us for review.

     • Read the article on writing a personal statement by Thomas J. Lindell, Ph.D., Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology

     • Have a good writer, or two or three (think English professor, one of the tutors at the Writing Center in Bear Down Gym,
       a physician for whom you may be volunteering or working) read over your draft and make suggestions.
       Your grammar, choice of words, spelling, tone, voice, tense-all of these elements should be carefully reviewed before you submit your draft to us.

     • When you have a draft that you feel is close to being ready for submission, email (link to our contact information)
       your draft to ONE of the pre-health professions advisors by attaching it in Word format.
       We will use the editing features in Word to review your statement and return it to you with comments and suggestions as soon as possible.