Crafting a Personal Statement For Medical School

Crafting a Personal Statement For Medical School

I sensed that I wanted to fight against avoidable death for the first time at 12, looking at my granddad dying of an undiagnosed diabetic coma.

Two years later, I was invited to a class majoring in biology at one of the top Moscow high schools. Most courses were taught by professors of Moscow State University, which implanted critical thinking and research skills into my brain. For course projects, I studied birch leaf variability using geometric morphometry, some ecological features of hamsters and differences in response to exercises between genders. These years were challenging, but the school helped…