All,
Just received a phone call! Accepted (pending an open seat).
Since everyone asks, my timeline:
- 2014-12-01: primary submitted
- 2015-01-21: secondary received
- 2015-02-27: secondary submitted
- 2015-03-10: file completed
- 2015-03-16: interview invite received
- 2015-04-17: interviewed
- 2015-04-22: accepted
My statistics:
- Out-of-state (though I was previously stationed in Arizona)
- Non-traditional applicant (34 years-old): was pre-med at an Ivy League college and did horribly. Graduated and stuck with the pre-med path out of stubbornness, but subsequently dropped out of the Georgetown SMP and thought I was done with medicine forever. Joined the Marine Corps, graduated from a non-Ivy League law school, and deployed to Afghanistan; experiences made me re-think medicine. Recently finished MS program at an Ivy League graduate school. Now working in emergency management.
- MCAT: 32 (2013), 35 (2006), 34-36 (2001, back when VR was scaled 13-15)
- Undergraduate (including postbacc) science GPA: 3.38; undergraduate (including postbacc) non-science GPA: 3.38
- Graduate science GPA: 2.71 (thanks to dropping out of Georgetown SMP); graduate non-science GPA: 2.81 (thanks to law school grades)
- Overall science GPA: 3.11; overall non-science GPA: 3.11
Assessment:
- Clearly my GPA is low and I have comparably little experience with the medically underserved, but I think the high MCAT scores, unusual work history (Marine Corps, licensed attorney), and prestige factor (I mention Ivy League not to toot my horn, but to explain a mitigating factor) of my undergraduate/graduate education helped.
Very Respectfully,
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