Every piece of writing has an audience and a purpose.

All Star Essays will help you craft a personal statement that connects with your audience and moves you toward your admissions goal.

As a medical school applicant, you have a two-fold writing challenge. Your primary and secondary application essays have similar audiences but different objectives.

The audience for each of your essays is the admissions committee of the medical schools to which you are applying.

Your primary essay will be read at every school. The purpose in writing the primary essay is to persuade readers that you are an outstanding candidate for the medical profession.

Each of your secondary essays will be read by only one committee, the one at the school reviewing your secondary application. Your purpose in writing the secondary essays is to persuade your readers that you are particularly well suited to attend their school, with the ultimate goal of landing an interview with them.

Admissions committee members begin the process with a good assessment of your qualifications for medical school. They've seen your transcripts and your resume as well as your GPA and MCAT scores. Based on them, they can determine whether you have the intellectual and academic ability to succeed in medical school.

What they don't know is whether you have the 'soft' qualities that schools look for in doctors. Are you compassionate? Can you explain a technical issue to a non-specialist? Do you have intellectual curiosity? Are you resilient?

Your essays are your chance to answer those questions.

Think of your essays as a preliminary interview on paper. You need to project yourself as someone who is confident in front of others, who can be trusted with life-and-death issues. You want to show that you can think and communicate clearly and accurately. You want to convey your personality, to give your readers an idea of who you are as a person, and why they would welcome you as a student and future colleague. You want to tell your readers something that will stick in their minds and help them distinguish you from the scores of other qualified applicants applying to the same program.

It goes without saying that your essays must be free of grammatical errors, misspellings, and typos. There are numerous people who can help you with editing. However, All Star Essays goes the extra mile, helping hone your statements, so that they meet the very high standards of medical school.

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