Check your personal statement before submitting

Ensure your personal statement satisfies fundamental critical checks before submitting. If it fails any, consider revising it.

What gets checked
  • - Length against ERAS®, CaRMS, or AMCAS® limits
  • - Paragraph split with introduction, body, and conclusion
  • - Structure checks on paragraph size and balance
  • - Inline annotations marked on your own text
  • - Passive voice, repeated words, filler, abbreviations
  • - Detail that could identify a real patient
Checking against:

Length

ERAS® accepts up to 28,000 characters, but that ceiling is far longer than anything a program wants to read.

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Paste your statement to see how it sits against the recommended length.

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Checklist — ERAS®

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These are the judgement calls no rule can make for you. Work through them once your counts look right.

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Disclaimer

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Length limits and formatting expectations change between application cycles and, for CaRMS, between programs. Verify the current requirements with the application service and the programs you are applying to before submitting.