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Advice & Insight From Personal Statement Specialists
Short and simple, lying on your personal statement not only shows a lack of integrity but will almost definitely come with negative repercussions. Lying on your personal statement may take the form of making up false claims about your qualifications and experiences. It can also be more subtle where students inaccurately elaborate on experiences and skills. Although you may be feeling pressure to stand out from the crowd, a good personal statement is rooted in strong analysis and evidence not lies.
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Their may be several reasons why you feel your experiences might not make you a strong candidate for medical school. Admission tutors are aware that even the most proactive and tenacious students can struggle to be accepted onto work experience placements. You might feel as if your work experience placements were not very unique or long. Universities are not interested in what it is you have done but what attributes you demonstrated in this role and what you learnt. Direct observations of healthcare can be great to give you a realistic understanding of the physical, organisational and emotional demands of a medical career. However, work experience is more than just this. Consider what people-focused experiences you have had; experiences working with people in a caring or service role allow you to show you have an altruistic and compassionate nature. Perhaps you have experience in paid employment; can you reflect on this to show you developed the skills and attributes needed to study medicine?
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Instead of lying on your personal statement consider explaining or reframing how you explain your achievements. This way the truth will serve you fine. When making a structural plan for your personal statement you want to consider what the themes of each of your paragraphs are. Perhaps you have a work experience paragraph and an extracurricular paragraph. Write a list of your top achievements for each paragraph and link them to skills or reflections you made from each experience. Your personal statement should have a positive tone. You don’t have to disclose your weakness; if you feel you were unsuccessful or “failed” during an experience reframe this to talk about the skill that you’re interested to develop as a growth opportunity.