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Essay Editing
Tell Your Story Impactfully
Your essay can make the difference between landing an interview or being overlooked. It provides admissions committees with insights into your character, values, and aspirations.
The challenge is presenting your story authentically to appeal to admission advisors. We know what they’re looking for because our team has been a part of top med school admission committees.
Bring your draft to a live, one-on-one session and work through it with your advisor in real time, so you leave knowing exactly what to change and why.
Get One Step Closer to Landing an Interview
We’ll help you refine every part of your written application, from your personal statement to secondary essays, MD/PhD essays, and more.
Work through your essays live with an advisor and get in-depth feedback and insider tips to increase your chances of getting an interview.
What do we edit?
- Personal Statement
- Activities
- Secondaries (check out our secondary essay database here)
- Institutional Action, Criminal History, Other Impactful Experiences
- MD/PhD Essays
- TMDSAS Required and Optional Essays
- Letters of Interest or Intent
- BS/MD Specific Essays
- Postbac or SMP Essays
- Any Other Essays
How does it work?
Book a 30- or 50-minute session and have your draft ready. You and your advisor go through your essay together over Zoom, and you can ask questions as you go.
When can I meet?
Pick any open time on the booking page. Your feedback happens during the session, so there’s no waiting for edits to come back.
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30-minute live session
$199
Who Is It For?
- Reviewing a few activity descriptions, or
- Reviewing a couple most meaningful essays, or
- Reviewing letters of interest or intent, or
- Reviewing a few secondary essays, or
- Other Impactful Essay Experience + a couple of activity descriptions, or
- Mix and match to customize what YOU need
flash sale!
50-minute live session
$375
Who Is It For?
- Personal statement feedback (AMCAS, AACOMAS, TMDSAS, or another essay!), or
- Reviewing several secondary essays, or
- AMCAS most meaningful experience essays and activity descriptions
- MD/PhD Essay
- Both of the non-personal statement TMDSAS essays (required and optional essays)
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$101
$135
Who Is It For?
- Reviewing a few activity descriptions, or
- Reviewing a couple most meaningful essays, or
- Reviewing letters of interest or intent, or
- Reviewing a few secondary essays, or
- Other Impactful Essay Experience + a couple of activity descriptions, or
- Mix and match to customize what YOU need
$149
$199
Who Is It For?
- Personal statement feedback (AMCAS, AACOMAS, TMDSAS, or another essay!), or
- Reviewing several secondary essays, or
- AMCAS most meaningful experience essays and activity descriptions
- MD/PhD Essay
- Both of the non-personal statement TMDSAS essays (required and optional essays)
$281
$375
Who Is It For?
- Reviewing most/all of your activity descriptions, or
- Reviewing your MD/PhD
- Research Essay, or Reviewing your medical school personal statement, or
- Two personal statement revisions
- Reviewing many secondary essays for the same or different schools, or
- Mix and match to customize what YOU need
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$412
$550
Who Is It For?
- Reviewing most of your primary application essays, or
- Reviewing most of your activity descriptions for different apps, or
- Reviewing several secondary essays for the same or different schools, or
- Reviewing your MD/PhD and MD/PhD Research essays, or
- Mix and match to customize what YOU need
$149
$199
Who Is It For?
- Reviewing a few activity descriptions, or
- Reviewing a couple most meaningful essays, or
- Reviewing letters of interest or intent, or
- Reviewing a few secondary essays, or
- Other Impactful Essay Experience + a couple of activity descriptions, or
- Mix and match to customize what YOU need
$281
$375
Who Is It For?
- Personal statement feedback (AMCAS, AACOMAS, TMDSAS, or another essay!), or
- Reviewing several secondary essays, or
- AMCAS most meaningful experience essays and activity descriptions
- MD/PhD Essay
- Both of the non-personal statement TMDSAS essays (required and optional essays)
About Medical School HQ
Dr. Ryan Gray founded Medical School HQ after going through the ups and downs of the premed journey with little guidance. He was determined to make the application process easier for aspiring students.
Over the past decade, he has empowered hundreds of thousands of students through his podcasts, YouTube channels, and books.
Realizing he couldn’t personally support every student who sought his help, Dr. Gray brought together a team of top-tier medical school admissions experts, including former Directors of Admissions and Admissions Officers.
Today, our dedicated advising team offers personalized, 1-on-1 guidance on every aspect of the premed process, including the whole application cycle if that’s what you need.
What our Students are saying
Hear from students just like you who achieved their med school dreams with our guidance.
I just received my admission to XXXXX! This is unreal and almost feels like I am dreaming. I want to thank you for all of your help with my application. I cannot overstate how influential your guidance and insight have been with this result and I am eternally grateful for your support!
IM SO HAPPY!!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL YOUR HELP, IM INDEBTED TO YOU! Truly, thank you so much for all your help. Thank you doesnt do enough.
I want to take a few moments and thank you for all of your very instructive, kind and consistent feedback and support through my applications and it is your wishes, feedback, and most importantly your blessings that have landed me the acceptance!
I got into XXXXX this morning!!!! It still has not hit me that I will be a doctor now!! Thank you for all your help, your words and motivation have brought me to this point.
I wanted to once again express my heartfelt gratitude for your help in providing feedback during my secondary applications. Your guidance has been instrumental in my journey.
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I am excited to tell you that I just got my third interview invite from XXXXX today! I can’t believe it. I didn’t even know if I was good enough to get one, let alone three – by mid-September. Thank you so much for all of your help and support up to this point; I would not be in this position without it!!
I wanted to thank you for helping me prepare for my XXXXX interview. Even in a 30-minute advising session, I learned so much from you. Thank you for believing in me, and here’s to another potential success story from one of your advisees!
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Get Over Writer’s Block With a Clear Essay Outline
Clear Up Your Essay Editing Doubts
From creating an outline to fine-tuning your application, get clear answers to your most pressing essay editing questions.
What happened to written essay editing?
We’ve retired our written, character-count essay editing. All essay editing now happens in live, one-on-one sessions with your advisor.
Working through your essay together lets you ask questions, talk through why a change matters, and leave with a clear plan for your next draft, instead of waiting days for comments to come back.
If you already have characters, you can still submit essays for written feedback until you use them up.
Can I get feedback on a revised draft?
Yes. Book another session whenever your next draft is ready.
Does MSHQ offer a military discount?
Yes!
We offer a 10% discount to those who are:
- Active-duty military
- Student of a U.S. Military academy
- Employees of the Commissioned Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service or National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
- Veterans or retired military
Please send an email to [email protected] to verify and receive your discount code.