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Hi all,
Ok, here goes. I really bombed my first two years of undergrad at UMD. I APed out of a lot of lower level science courses and went straight for upper level science courses, kept crammed more and more of them into coming semesters as my grades continued to decrease. I did improve my grades significantly my junior and senior year, and only got 1 B my senior year, the rest were As.
My cGPA trend: 3.11--> 2.92 --> 3.61 --> 3.75 (and an overall cGPA of 3.32)
My sGPA trend: 2.82 --> 2.66 --> 3.60 --> 3.74 (and an overall sGPA of 3.18)
I took the MCAT twice (1 year apart, took the June test). The first time I got a 23R, the second time a 32R (12PS, 9VR, 11BS). English is technically my second language (I learned Russian first), but it is the language I speak most often.
My clinical experiences are:
Shadowed a primary care physician for a summer: 70+ hours
Shadowed an endocrinologist for 3 summers: 100+ hours
Shadowed a clinical pathologist in Kiev, Ukraine for a summer (particularly working with post-Chernobyl patients): ~50 hours.
Shadowing a team of physicians at NIH ICU (about once a month for ~2hours), since September: ~15 hours so far, continuing with this
My research experience:
-3 years of research in the clinical endocrinology branch at the NIH during my high school and early college summers - presented poster at summer research festival my 3rd year
-2 years of neuroscience research in a developmental neuroscience lab studying developing cortico-thalamic circuits and how developmental disorders of these circuits causes epilepsy (as undergrad) -acknowledgement in paper, no publications
-1 year of research in behavioral neuroscience lab (as undergrad) - studied spectrotemporal tuning properties of auditory neurons and prefrontal cotrex neurons in ferrets- acknowledgement in paper
-Currently doing a 2-year post-bacc fellowship at NIH, studying interaction of prefrontal cortex and amygdala in emotional perception in non-human primates, and how malfunction leads to neuropsychiatric disorders. Already have 2 posters that I'll be presenting im April, one at a conference in Wisconsin, 1 at the annual poster day for postbaccs. Will also (most likely) be presenting a 3rd poster in October at annual neuroscience conference, and will most likely be a primary author on a paper coming out in early 2013. Also get to assist with primate neurosurgery.
Other ECs:
-Taking some upper level stat and bio graduate courses through FAES (at NIH) that may be able to be transferred to my school (not sure about this yet).
-Member of the community service committee at NIH that organizes community service events for postbaccs to participate in
-Started volunteering with Project Sunshine in September 2011. We work with sick children at local hospitals and do crafts with them, play with them, etc.
-Volunteered with Habitat for Humanity a few times this year through the postbacc committee (actually organized for a group of postbaccs to come volunteer)
-I'm also on the waitlist to volunteer at the surgical department at NIH (as a patient ambassador)
-Was an undergrad teaching assistant for microbiology
-Worked as a gymnatics coach for a year ( I was a gymnast for 11 years, retired after high school)
-Recreationally, I competed in rock climbing in college, won a few 1st and 3rd places and also took up cross-country running, ran several races in the DC area.
-Fluent in Russian and minored in Italian in undergrad
I'm a resident of MD, and plan to apply broadly (20+ schools). What are my chances of getting into a US allopathic program?
Ok, here goes. I really bombed my first two years of undergrad at UMD. I APed out of a lot of lower level science courses and went straight for upper level science courses, kept crammed more and more of them into coming semesters as my grades continued to decrease. I did improve my grades significantly my junior and senior year, and only got 1 B my senior year, the rest were As.
My cGPA trend: 3.11--> 2.92 --> 3.61 --> 3.75 (and an overall cGPA of 3.32)
My sGPA trend: 2.82 --> 2.66 --> 3.60 --> 3.74 (and an overall sGPA of 3.18)
I took the MCAT twice (1 year apart, took the June test). The first time I got a 23R, the second time a 32R (12PS, 9VR, 11BS). English is technically my second language (I learned Russian first), but it is the language I speak most often.
My clinical experiences are:
Shadowed a primary care physician for a summer: 70+ hours
Shadowed an endocrinologist for 3 summers: 100+ hours
Shadowed a clinical pathologist in Kiev, Ukraine for a summer (particularly working with post-Chernobyl patients): ~50 hours.
Shadowing a team of physicians at NIH ICU (about once a month for ~2hours), since September: ~15 hours so far, continuing with this
My research experience:
-3 years of research in the clinical endocrinology branch at the NIH during my high school and early college summers - presented poster at summer research festival my 3rd year
-2 years of neuroscience research in a developmental neuroscience lab studying developing cortico-thalamic circuits and how developmental disorders of these circuits causes epilepsy (as undergrad) -acknowledgement in paper, no publications
-1 year of research in behavioral neuroscience lab (as undergrad) - studied spectrotemporal tuning properties of auditory neurons and prefrontal cotrex neurons in ferrets- acknowledgement in paper
-Currently doing a 2-year post-bacc fellowship at NIH, studying interaction of prefrontal cortex and amygdala in emotional perception in non-human primates, and how malfunction leads to neuropsychiatric disorders. Already have 2 posters that I'll be presenting im April, one at a conference in Wisconsin, 1 at the annual poster day for postbaccs. Will also (most likely) be presenting a 3rd poster in October at annual neuroscience conference, and will most likely be a primary author on a paper coming out in early 2013. Also get to assist with primate neurosurgery.
Other ECs:
-Taking some upper level stat and bio graduate courses through FAES (at NIH) that may be able to be transferred to my school (not sure about this yet).
-Member of the community service committee at NIH that organizes community service events for postbaccs to participate in
-Started volunteering with Project Sunshine in September 2011. We work with sick children at local hospitals and do crafts with them, play with them, etc.
-Volunteered with Habitat for Humanity a few times this year through the postbacc committee (actually organized for a group of postbaccs to come volunteer)
-I'm also on the waitlist to volunteer at the surgical department at NIH (as a patient ambassador)
-Was an undergrad teaching assistant for microbiology
-Worked as a gymnatics coach for a year ( I was a gymnast for 11 years, retired after high school)
-Recreationally, I competed in rock climbing in college, won a few 1st and 3rd places and also took up cross-country running, ran several races in the DC area.
-Fluent in Russian and minored in Italian in undergrad
I'm a resident of MD, and plan to apply broadly (20+ schools). What are my chances of getting into a US allopathic program?
