How to Start Your Personal Statement to Get Your Reader's Attention

Nothing drives the success of your personal statement like how you start. Some candidates start their personal statements with a quote. Others start with a dramatic narrative. Does either of these gimmicks work?

Quotes serve only to delay the start of the personal statement and to shift the focus from where it needs to be: you and the path you are on. They communicate only that you do not have confidence in your story.

Dramatic narratives immediately get the personal statement off on the wrong track. It is not a short story competition. Like quotes, they communicate only that you do not have confidence in your story.

The reason you do not have confidence in your story may be that you believe it is the same as everyone else's. An example is that you want to go into medicine because that's what your parents did.

We discuss the need for having confidence in your story, how to achieve that confidence, and how to tell your story in a unique and compelling manner, even when your story is a common one.

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