Dr. Beskin helped me with my medical school applications, and she is as good as it gets. Through my experience with her, I have learned that academic writing is fundamentally different than writing an essay about oneself and that it is essential to have someone work with you at all stages of this process. While I had initially come to her with a 'complete' statement, our first session was spent reflecting on my personal interests, experiences, and goals. By the end of the session, I not only had the pieces to a (much more authentic) personal statement but also a better understanding of myself and my aspirations. This would be the telling start to my great experience with Dr. Beskin. By questioning the importance of every idea in the statement, she forced me to be intentional with each aspect of my narrative. While I often had to 'kill my darlings,' I also, through our conversations, realized that I regularly did not explain my ideas clearly enough and that re-wording/reshaping that sentence, paragraph, or section would drastically improve the quality of my essay. And that's why I believe this service is crucial to writing a great personal statement -- I felt that I needed not only an unbiased person who did not experience the content of my personal statement (my life) to work through and question its content but also someone who cared about my essays (and my future) as much as I did. Ultimately, that is what I found with Dr. Beskin. read more