An Eye-Opening Conversation on the Personal Statement | Ask Dr. Gray: Premed Q&A Ep. 107
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- This premed has a question about how to show resilience in your medical school personal statement. Our conversation reveals a whole mindset shift he needed to make!
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Today, we discuss:
Why med school "acceptance rate" numbers are so scary, but they really shouldn't be.
Why to avoid pitching yourself as "resilient" or "strong" or "accomplished" in your personal statement, and instead just tell your story.
Why your med school personal statement doesn't actually need to be that stressful to write.
The ONE thing you need to address in your personal statement.
What if your "story" and why you want to be a doctor isn't unique?
How to have your voice and your story come through in your application.
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Best vlog yet! Best of luck to this applicant. He was very mature and humble throughout the discussion
I need to re-watch this every day until I submit my application because I hear the message, but years of anxious premed forums have ingrained a different story in my mind. This is indeed mind blowing because no one talks about personal statements this way. At least, not this clearly. TY!!
This is you’re best PS vlog yet, IMO!!🥰
I really think more people need to approach writing their personal statements from this perspective and something that I internalized early, but never knew how to articulate. Just be comfortable in who you are and that you want the admission committees just want to know you.
This has to be the best, right now I feel like that I was that 21 years old student again and ended up failing my college courses all over again. I really wish he was around when I went to college. I am in my thirties and feel like I missed out on my opportunity to become a great doctor. thank you Dr. gray for all of your advice.
It's not too late! We once accepted a woman who was 51. She graduated in 4 years with an MD and an MPH. Do it.
Hey, I'm 43 and starting college. I have no fear and will do the work and everything required. What's the worst that can happen? I'm pursuing the one thing I've ever wanted to do which I know I'll be excellent at. Regardless, give it some thought stranger, age is just a number when it comes to most things.
I have watched so many of your videos and this gave me so much relief. I have a 3.8 GPA and have some decent clinical experience while working full-time and being a first generation college student/financially supporting myself through college. I’ve always worried about not being “good enough” even though I’ve shown my resilience in many areas.
This really made me less anxious!
By far one of the most eye-opening videos I've seen on your channel. Congrats
This was very helpful!!! Thank you. I think this is a common mistake.
What a beautiful conversation. Thank you, Dr. Gray!
Really great points discussed in the first 5 mins of this video! Loved the insight Dr. Gray, and appreciate your commitment in helping those desiring to get into medical school.
Such good questions
He just like me fr
Some schools' ad comms are blinded to the transcripts, though.
Hey Dr Gray, how would medical school interpret grades that come from a harder grading scale. For example if I have B+ in two classes but in actuality it should be an A-, they are both 92 percent but the grading scale puts them as B+ instead of A-.
When you apply and send your transcript to AMCAS (if you are applying MD) they will correct your scores almost in a standardized way. When you look at your AMCAS application you will have two columns. One column will be your "OT" or (original transcript grade) and the column next to it will be the "AMCAS" grade (or whatever AMCAS considers to be an A,B,C,or D). Hopefully that helps. But in the grand scheme, admissions committees are aware that schools grade students differently and that is taken into account.
@@DaKuawn thank you
The committees aren't rejecting YOU they are rejecting the fluff.
Sometimes they just reject you for you and that’s okay
@C B Anything that may distract from the real purpose of the statement which is to say why you want to be a doctor.
@@DollyDomDom Thats not logical if they dont even know you personally.
Hey Dr. Gray! So I watched a lot of your videos and I'm one of the students who ended up getting a masters after college to look like a better applicant (I had a 3.0 undergrad GPA). (I ended up getting a 3.4 in my masters). In some of your videos, you speak about writing an advocate letter to schools about your GPA; I was wondering, what's the best way to approach this without looking like I'm making a bunch of excuses?
Thanks again!