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Note: I am feeling pretty lost right now - I'm pretty sure I know what top tier schools I want to apply to, and what safe schools I want to apply to, but I'm unsure how to go about finding mid-tier schools that would be appropriate. I really want to go anywhere OOS. I'm not interested in MD/PhD but I really want to do some sort of research after I get my MD... maybe in cardiology or biomaterials which is what I research now. And I like schools with global health programs/ research programs. Though really I just need ideas about how to pick schools that would be good for me!
Junior, PA resident, Top 20 School, Applying This Cycle
-Your cumulative and science GPA: 3.92 (cumulative) 3.87 (science)
-Your MCAT score (if available): 39
- LOR: Strong
-Clinical volunteer activities
-Physician shadowing (include specialties and total hours)
-Research
-Nonclinical volunteer activities
-Employment
-Other
Dream Schools:
Back Up Schools
Junior, PA resident, Top 20 School, Applying This Cycle
-Your cumulative and science GPA: 3.92 (cumulative) 3.87 (science)
- Bioengineering Major and Global Health Minor (top 20 school)
- LOR: Strong
-Clinical volunteer activities
- Volunteered for a semester at a local hospital, keeping patients with delirium mentally active
- Volunteer as an EMT at an Ambulance Company (70+ Hours) (EMT Certified for 2.5 years)
- Volunteer as an EMT at Home University (1000+ hours)
- Certified CPR instructor by AHA (50+ hours)
- In charge of campus-wide CPR certification program (100+ hours)
- ENT - 8 Hours
- Pediatrician - 8 Hours
- I'm going to try to get more the fall of senior year... probably can't get in more before I submit my app, but both my parents are doctors so I kinda know what being a doctor is like anyway
- REU over the summer at prestigious university. 400+ hours. Paper being submitted at the end of this month (2nd Author)
- Research at home university: Started last semester, continuing this semester and next year, 500+ hours. No publication.
- Academic fellow at university (50+ hours) serve as a tutor in bioengineering on campus
- Peer academic advisor at university (200+ hours) serve as an academic mentor/help students schedule classes on campus
- TA for two bioengineering classes at university (Fundamentals of bioengineering and systems and physiology)
- Tutored middle school children in english for one year, 4 hours a week (freshman year)
- Worked with habitat humanity for one year, 2-3 hours a week (Freshman year)
- Have worked in various restaurants during summer/winter breaks in school (Starbucks, cosi, etc)
- Took a gap year between high school and college and studied abroad for 6 months (Austria, germany, etc)
- This summer I'm participating in a global health internship and traveling to Malawi to work on clinical trials in hospital that my school partners with and to teach a medical device workshop at a Malawian university
- Have a small merit scholarship for being an engineer who gets good grades
- In an engineering honors society
- Ummmm I know basic sign language and I'm pretty good at German
- Currently working on multiple medical device design classes for the developing world through my global health classes and engineering design classes
- President's List/Deans List most semesters
Dream Schools:
Johns Hopkins
Baylor
Mayo
Vanderbilt
Harvard
UPenn
Duke
Stanford
Other Schools I would like:Baylor
Mayo
Vanderbilt
Harvard
UPenn
Duke
Stanford
Columbia
Brown
Wash U
Emory
Dartmouth
Brown
Wash U
Emory
Dartmouth
Back Up Schools
Drexel
Temple
Penn State
Jefferson
Temple
Penn State
Jefferson
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