Personal Statement and More MCAT Stuff

In about two weeks the application system, AMCAS, opens and hundreds (thousands?) of neurotic premed students will be madly filling in their activities, courses taken, and of course, their personal statements.  The personal statement is probably one of the most important parts of the application.  It‘s your introduction, the “first impression” if you will, so it has to be good.  *cue the panic*    I had to go through this last year, but because I am reapplying, it almost makes it harder, because I have to rewrite the whole thing.  Why is this harder? Because I have to say pretty much the same thing I did last year, in a new and refreshing way.  *sigh*  I have been studying for the MCAT for the past two months and that is really the only thing on my mind right now, so I am not really in the writing mood – which isn’t good because there is a writing section on the MCAT.  Ha ha ha    

Even though AMCAS opens around May 9^th, applications can’t be submitted until June 1^st,  which gives me a couple weeks to write my personal statement and fill in my application. However, I won’t get my MCAT score back until June 21-22, so technically I have about a month to get everything done.  My goal is to have everything done by June 20^th so I can submit my application the moment I get my score back.  The ideal situation would have been to take the MCAT in April and get my score back in May, then submit my application on June 1^st, but that wouldn’t have given me enough time to study.   Guess I'll have to deal with a June 22nd submission date.  That's still pretty early.