-Non-traditional, undergraduate degree in History with honors University of Notre Dame.
-3 years now in the professional world, where I have NOT worked for pay in the healthcare industry. 7 months as a fourth grade teacher, then rest of the time in other profession, all 40+ hours a week. Now in a management position.
-Obtained my pre-reqs in the Science in the Evening Program at UMD and did some while still at undergrad institution. Basic sciences completed only, no upper-level biology.
-31 mcat (10 bio, 10 phys, 11 verbal)
-3.57 overall gpa, 3.51 science
Medical/HealthCare EC's
-summer between junior/senior year i worked as a research assistant at UNC school of medicine in department of pediatrics, ~20 hours a week on two clinical studies. This also included clinical shadowing
-100 hours+ in Emergency Department at Johns Hopkins as patient representative and occasional observer of procedures and care
Non-medical EC's:
-volunteer head coach at YMCA for middle school coed basketball team one season (winter 2011)
-volunteer youth program coach at YMCA for toddler/kids mixed sports class 5 hours a week for winter 2011
-volunteer running partner for a program that pairs unaffected people with young adult cancer survivors to train for and then complete a 5k race (summer 2012, 5 hours a week)
the list, in no particular order:
Vermont
East Carolina (NC Resident)
UNC (NC Resident, great family connections--Stepson of former Dean of Medicine, been guaranteed an interview by a current Dean. Nepotism at its finest and a professional courtesy to my stepfather, but an interview doesn't mean anything given that school's applicant pool)
WFU
VCU
Eastern VA
Jefferson
Miami THE U
Cincinnati
GW
Georgetown
Indiana
thoughts on my list? Its small. I'm debating between the above targeted list (with a backup plan of waiting until 2015 cycle, retaking MCAT, strengthening clinical care ECs) or just going on an all out attack and adding:
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Drexel
New York Medical college
Maryland
Loyola
Tufts
Boston U
Saint Louis
Ohio State
What do yee think?
-3 years now in the professional world, where I have NOT worked for pay in the healthcare industry. 7 months as a fourth grade teacher, then rest of the time in other profession, all 40+ hours a week. Now in a management position.
-Obtained my pre-reqs in the Science in the Evening Program at UMD and did some while still at undergrad institution. Basic sciences completed only, no upper-level biology.
-31 mcat (10 bio, 10 phys, 11 verbal)
-3.57 overall gpa, 3.51 science
Medical/HealthCare EC's
-summer between junior/senior year i worked as a research assistant at UNC school of medicine in department of pediatrics, ~20 hours a week on two clinical studies. This also included clinical shadowing
-100 hours+ in Emergency Department at Johns Hopkins as patient representative and occasional observer of procedures and care
Non-medical EC's:
-volunteer head coach at YMCA for middle school coed basketball team one season (winter 2011)
-volunteer youth program coach at YMCA for toddler/kids mixed sports class 5 hours a week for winter 2011
-volunteer running partner for a program that pairs unaffected people with young adult cancer survivors to train for and then complete a 5k race (summer 2012, 5 hours a week)
the list, in no particular order:
Vermont
East Carolina (NC Resident)
UNC (NC Resident, great family connections--Stepson of former Dean of Medicine, been guaranteed an interview by a current Dean. Nepotism at its finest and a professional courtesy to my stepfather, but an interview doesn't mean anything given that school's applicant pool)
WFU
VCU
Eastern VA
Jefferson
Miami THE U
Cincinnati
GW
Georgetown
Indiana
thoughts on my list? Its small. I'm debating between the above targeted list (with a backup plan of waiting until 2015 cycle, retaking MCAT, strengthening clinical care ECs) or just going on an all out attack and adding:
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Drexel
New York Medical college
Maryland
Loyola
Tufts
Boston U
Saint Louis
Ohio State
What do yee think?
