Medical School Applications Editing and Proofreading Services

The personal statement lists two hundred hours of hospital volunteering, a care home placement, a shadowing week and a first aid qualification. It says all of it was invaluable and confirmed the applicant's desire to study medicine. The admissions tutor now knows where this person has been and nothing whatever about what they understood while they were there.

We edit medical school applications and their components — personal statements, work experience and reflective sections, situational and values-based responses, widening participation and contextual statements, graduate entry applications, interview preparation documents, and the material for reapplication after an unsuccessful cycle. Our editors work on the section every applicant fills with hours.

The reflection on experience is what medical admissions actually assesses, and its failure is a list of activities with an adjective attached. Tutors are not counting hours; they are looking for evidence that the applicant noticed something. We work through these so one experience is developed at length rather than four mentioned, since a single observation followed through demonstrates more than a complete inventory; so the reflection names a specific moment rather than the placement as a whole, because "I learned the importance of communication" is a phrase every applicant writes and a particular exchange in a particular corridor is not; so what the applicant got wrong or found difficult is included, given that a statement in which every experience was uniformly positive reads as untested and tutors are explicitly looking for insight into the demands of the work; so the observation is connected to what it implies about practising medicine rather than about the applicant's feelings; so any claim about the profession is one the applicant could defend at interview, since the statement is the interview's agenda and anything in it will be asked about; so the balance of space favours understanding over activity, with the hours reduced to a clause; so the reasons given for medicine avoid the two that tutors discount entirely — wanting to help people and enjoying science; and so nothing is claimed that a supervisor would not recognise. Statements written this way get interviews and survive them.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including applications, placement details and unsuccessful attempts. We are editors rather than clinicians, admissions tutors or advisers, and we offer no view on your prospects, medicine or any application. What we can do is turn hours into what you understood.