<p>Necessarily, your essay will reflect your interest in humanity. Nothing will be assumed in any way, shape or form about where your preferences might lie within Medicine.
Therefore, you’ll have to sell yourself as a competent prospective medical student, not a wandering humanist who just might be able to bring a special caring nature to an otherwise too-science oriented profession.
What I am telling you is that you must get in through the front door: a high GPA, with a separately calculated science GPA of 3.5 or better, and a set of MCATs that measure your science aptitude & knowledge to be well above average (composite score of >30).
Once you’re in a med school, you can start talking about your passion for psychiatry, if in fact you still have one.</p>