Personal Statement Review

Your personal statement is considered, to most schools, the most important piece of your medical school application. It is the candidates opportunity to connect the dots of who they are for medical school admissions counselors to understand. An applicants chances of getting into a great medical school will diminish significantly with a poorly written personal statement. A great statement will give admissions counselors a strong understanding of why application want to pursue a career in medicine and what they have done so far to prepare for that journey. 

If you are struggling to start, we will work with you to brainstorm ideas, such as integrating real life experiences or dissecting the significance of recent classes. We will aid candidates in highlighting the compelling parts of their journey, to help medical school admissions understand an applicant’s purpose. The Pre-Health Advisor Personal Statement Editing Service will help portray strengths, refine candidates writing voice, and maximize the chance for an interview offer.

Our medical school personal statement editing service includes careful analysis of content and tone, in addition to, insights on how to improve an applicants essay to present their authentic selves to medical school admissions committees. Your essay will be edited by an expert pre-health advisor with years of experience navigating the medical school admissions process. These are the people that know the medical school admissions process inside and out.

Admissions Advising

The path to medicine can be long and difficult. We guide pre-health students through the admissions process to go on to the best health professional schools in the nation. We serve students from a wide range of educational backgrounds, and traditional and non-traditional paths. In our advising sessions, we support students on a number of topics that may arise on their pre-health journey:

– Course selection and extracurricular planning
– How and when to utilize a gap year or application year
– How to recover from poor performance in science courses
– Is a postbacc (post-undergrad) program necessary? What are your options?
– How to get to medical school if you didn’t major in a science or take any science courses
– How to transition from a career in a non-science field to a career in medicine
– Would a master’s degree be better than a postbacc program?
– Didn’t major in a science or take sciences courses in undergrad, is it too late?
– School selection and how to narrow down the list of schools you apply to
– Choosing between Allopathic Medicine (MD) vs Osteopathic Medicine (DO) schools
– Figuring out if med school is for you, and what health professional careers to consider
– Help you understand what med schools are looking for in an applicant
– Crafting a strategic plan to address weaknesses in your student profile
– Help you make sense of your experiences and background
– Understand the admissions criteria, and how to make the most of your experiences and extracurricular activities
– Determine a realistic timeline to be considered a strong applicant for health professional school

…and many other questions!

Application Review

We guide pre-health students through the admissions process onto the best health professional schools in the nation. Pre-Health Advisors will review applications to ensure there are no gaps or red flags before candidates apply. We will assess the strength of the application, and if necessary, we will offer tips on how to strengthen candidate’s application before entering the cycle. Together, we will develop a list of schools to apply to that will maximize applicants opportunities for successful matriculation. Our goal is to help prospective applicants understand the process, and to present them as the best, most prepared applicant you can be. 

Interview Coaching

Tell me about yourself. Why do you want to be a physician? What is the most pressing health issue today? There are thousands of applicants and all qualified too. Why should a medical school pick you? Are you ready to confidently answer these questions? If not, working with a Pre-Health Advisor, who has previously interviewed medical school candidates, is the best way to prepare. We have prepared thousands of students to confidently walk into their medical school interview and earn acceptance into a health professional school.

Frequently Asked Questions

Pre-Health Advisor strongly recommends getting your essay thoroughly reviewed. While friends and family are certainly helpful, a professional advisor with experience helping thousands of students matriculate to medical school will take your personal statement to a new level.

Your personal statement will be reviewed by one of our experienced Pre-Health Advisor’s that is an expert in with extensive experience evaluating and editing essays for health professional schools. 

Advisors provide feedback within 24-96 hours of submission. This allows enough time for actual in-depth edits, not simply word changes.

Once you submit your personal statement word doc, your pre-health advisor will review them in detail and then provide constructive feedback on how to improve them. 

We will match you with an expert Pre-Health advisor best suited for your needs. Our advisors have spent their careers becoming experts on medical school admissions and have decades of experience mentoring hundreds of students.

Our advisors love mentoring and empowering the next generation of physicians. The quality of our advising service is unparalleled. That’s because our seasoned team consists of expert advisors who are active in professional organizations that keep advisors at universities around the nation informed and up to date with the latest trends and changes in health professional school admissions.  Other companies can’t do this.

Since advisors are based in the Greater Los Angeles area, advisors and students are often hundreds of miles apart so we recommend a zoom meetings.

If you are interested in meeting in person, you can email info@prehealthadvisor.com and we can discuss custom pricing and/or travel accommodations for in person meetings.