‘Tis the season for medical school secondary statements, as well as thinking about what how you’ll approach writing your personal statements in the winter! Below are a list of resources to support you throughout the writing process:
The Career & Internship Center has created a Personal Statement course, full of brainstorming guides, templates, and important tips to consider for the pre-writing and writing process.
Shemassian Academic Consulting’s personal statement guide includes a step-by-step approach to writing personal statements, a thorough breakdown of a top-5 school personal statement, and plenty of example essays.
Shemassian’s secondary essay guide includes walkthroughs of every type of med school secondary essay question, real-world prompt examples from schools, strategies for how to approach each question, and even example essays detailing how to successfully respond to each prompt. I believe it would benefit your students immensely.
Shemassian has also provided the following for students who may be applying this year and are keen to start pre-writing their secondary essays, we have compiled a list of every prompt for every med school in the U.S. and Canada, which can be found by clicking here!
