Essays That Will Get You into Medical School (Essays That Will Get You Into...Series) [Second Edition] (Essays That Will Get You Into Medical School)

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Following a clear and helpful general format, this updated volume is designed to help college students who are medical school applicants, and required to write a medical school admissions essay. Students will find extensive advice on the do's and don'ts for writing a successful essay plus instruction on the process of organizing ideas, writing a rough draft, then re-writing a final finished essay for presentation. Detailed advice is followed by 75 model essays, many of them new in this edition, all of them submitted by medical school students whose applications were accepted.

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Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Essays That Will Get You into Medical School:

this is a good book that was helpful in giving me an idea of the type of information that should and should not go into writing a personal statement.

good to start with..:

Good book to get you started on your essay, but the sample essays are not by the avg med school applicants

Useful but not completely:

This book has a lot of good advice but all the sample essays are from people who got accepted to Harvard Medical School. I know most of us haven't volunteered in a 3rd world country or published research papers or saved someone's life, so it would have been nice to read some essays from a non-superhero applicant. Also a little variety as to what schools they were accepted to would have been nice. They were all Harvard and other Ivy League schools. It also sounds like the authors consider those to be the... more info

A good place to start.:

Basically, this book tells you to write about yourself. It shows some good ways to transition into the varying aspects of the essay. But, the best thing about it is that it features a background summary of each applicant. It's easy to find the ones that are most similar to you. But again, it only helps for ideas.

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