Academic:
I'll be graduating with a cGPA: 3.4, sGPA: ~3.1.... not so hot, from NYU if that matters.
Psych major in undergrad. Will be working on my MPH at Yale School of Public Health (environmental health sciences), and take MCAT next summer.
NOTE: not taking MPH just to get into medschool, taking MPH because I love the subject matter and see it in making me a more well rounded physician- also want full 2 yr exp and more time for research etc.
Research/Work Experience:
Summer work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center comparing chemotherapy effectiveness/building a model to better use MSKCC's database.
Renal cancer research one summer at Yale, resulted in publication (3rd author).
Will be doing further research this summer and next year, epigenetics as well as gene policy research.
Clinical exp.- (shadowing)
GP throughout highschool, Oncologist at Yale for one day, Thoracic surgeon at MSKCC for one day. More this summer/next year I guess- unless something other than shadowing would be better??
volunteering-
only this past semester at my schools student health center. nothing else
I love research, and would ideally go for an MD/PhD however I know they're incredibly selective.
The premed advisors at my school are horrible and without a 4.0 they tell you to give up on life. Any suggestions about EC's this summer/next year or general opinions about anything? kinda lost.
I'll be graduating with a cGPA: 3.4, sGPA: ~3.1.... not so hot, from NYU if that matters.
Psych major in undergrad. Will be working on my MPH at Yale School of Public Health (environmental health sciences), and take MCAT next summer.
NOTE: not taking MPH just to get into medschool, taking MPH because I love the subject matter and see it in making me a more well rounded physician- also want full 2 yr exp and more time for research etc.
Research/Work Experience:
Summer work at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center comparing chemotherapy effectiveness/building a model to better use MSKCC's database.
Renal cancer research one summer at Yale, resulted in publication (3rd author).
Will be doing further research this summer and next year, epigenetics as well as gene policy research.
Clinical exp.- (shadowing)
GP throughout highschool, Oncologist at Yale for one day, Thoracic surgeon at MSKCC for one day. More this summer/next year I guess- unless something other than shadowing would be better??
volunteering-
only this past semester at my schools student health center. nothing else
I love research, and would ideally go for an MD/PhD however I know they're incredibly selective.
The premed advisors at my school are horrible and without a 4.0 they tell you to give up on life. Any suggestions about EC's this summer/next year or general opinions about anything? kinda lost.