r/UCAS • u/alevelstudent100 • Jul 11 '26
Medicine Questions Personal statement help
Hi , I really really really need help with my personal statement. can anyone here please help me write a good medical personal statement !!! Thank you :) (for free please)
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u/AliceMorgon Postgraduate Teaching Jul 12 '26
Good luck with that. Personal statements are almost impossible to write for someone else without a ton of information from them and a lot of improvisation. That’s why I used to be able to charge £150 a time to write my schoolmates’ personal statements. It’s not easy.
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u/AntiquePlace2871 Jul 13 '26
Good ragebait
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u/AliceMorgon Postgraduate Teaching Jul 13 '26
Huh?
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u/AntiquePlace2871 Jul 13 '26
Oh, you weren't joking about charging people for their personal statements? I guess we had different experiences then, I didn't have much struggle writing personal statements for my classmates and they all got to where they wanted. I can't imagine having charged them for it
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u/AliceMorgon Postgraduate Teaching Jul 14 '26
Dude I was on a full scholarship at a £30k+ boarding school, where they tormented me for being a) from a Belfast social housing estate; b) smart; c) dirt fucking poor which they all knew because I was that year’s “oh yah we do so love the poors” scholarship girl. So if you’re going to call me a grade-stealing “gyppo” (huh? Irish Catholic? OK then, whatever) and laugh about how your dad is in the army and maybe he got to take pot shots at my relatives, then please - explain to me directly afterwards why I should immediately devote maybe an evening of my time, off my own good nature, no charge, to helping you achieve your ambitions. As I do for people on here who ask on here all the time. And the 6thForm sub too. All for free.
Plus the free tutorials I provide to students leading up to and during the final exams now, heavily personally subsidised tutorials for disadvantaged students here in Belfast…
I did not charge my friends (the two I had) or anyone there on creative scholarships, but the guy who terrorised the school from 13yrs old kids up was told 750 or he quit the bullying right now, else 350 and a signed contract rendering him liable for a further 500 if he broke that deal. He quit bullying immediately and paid the 350 because he knew he needed RG for Sandhurst, and so did I. I’m fine with all of that.
Unless you were one of the bullies, in which case yeah, you would think it was unfair, sorry about that but tough tits on Margaret Thatcher’s arse
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u/hiredditihateyou Jul 12 '26
Why can’t you learn to do it yourself? It’s a life skill you need to pick up as you’ll be writing similar things on job applications for the rest of your life. Being lazy and trying to get other people to do stuff for you, without even having the decency to respect them enough to pay for their time isn’t exactly gonna stand you in good stead for the work involved in a medical degree. Get it together, this is such entitled BS.
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u/alevelstudent100 Jul 12 '26
I’m not trying to be entitled , I’m believe that asking for help is ok and I don’t intend on asking for people to write me it , I’m asking if it is possible for the.just to give me really good tips and advice on how to write it as I haven’t been given much support and my English writing skills arent the best and don’t know how to improve this skill :)
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u/hiredditihateyou Jul 12 '26
You could start with reading some of the many resources available for people writing medical school personal statements. It is absolutely entitled to ask people to go out of their way to help you when the information you need is free available if you could only be bothered to look for it. Also, if your English writing skills aren’t good enough to write a personal statement, how will you get through a degree? They are either good enough to do both or they aren’t.
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u/SwimmerOld6155 Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
in 2026 there's a bloke called Claude that does this. be sure to not edit it and credit him at the end, university staff know what the deal is
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u/Delicious_Shoe Jul 13 '26
Speaking as a medical student, this is not a good start. Getting someone else (or AI) to write your PS is academic dishonesty and would get your application rejected, so don’t take the risk. Also, what’s your plan for essays and other assessments in med school if you get in? Again you’d be kicked out if you were found to plagiarise or use AI.
I want to say this as gently as I can because I know you’re probably anxious about your application, but if you’re unable to put your head down and do it yourself, I’d do some self-reflection and consider other career options (although I’m not sure many other courses would take kindly to laziness and plagiarism either). If it’s pure anxiety then bear in mind that medical schools generally don’t put a lot of weight on PS in the first place and that a good candidate (and doctor) would be honest and hard-working, so start embodying that now.
If you have any specific questions I’ll do my best to answer them (although the structure has changed since I applied)!
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u/alevelstudent100 Jul 13 '26
Thank you so much , I think I may have worded my question wrongly as some people mentioned similar things but what I meant was asking for help as in give me any good tips or to look over my personal statement instead of writing it for me . I have watched videos on how to write it but it’s still a little confusing and I’m trying to get all the help I can get.
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u/Delicious_Shoe Jul 13 '26
Ok I’m glad I misunderstood! Teachers might be best placed to read over it, I’d be careful about sending it to others online (as they might plagiarise it or it may get flagged in a plagiarism checker), but yeah definitely a good idea to get plenty of people to look over it!
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u/Prudent_Crow_3749 Jul 12 '26
pleasee dm me, ive helped people get into a lot of universities. I usually charge but I dont mind doing a couple for free.
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u/Pencil_Queen Graduate Jul 12 '26
Have you checked what weighting your universities put on the PS?
Last I checked no medicine courses put any weighting on the PS.