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Demographic Information: Asian female, 22, US citizen, NC resident, 1st generation college student
Education: state school, majors in chemistry and computer science; minor in math
Stats:
MCAT: 521
Cumulative GPA: 3.82
Science GPA: 3.89
It should be noted, however, that I have several W's from sophomore year, having withdrawn from most of my classes due to personal difficulties after having experienced sexual assault. This is the part of my application I'm most worried about. I feel like my application would be a lot stronger if this hadn't happened, and I'm not sure if I should mention it in my applications.
Research:
I was in multiple labs during undergrad and got some publications in a few of them:
-Lab 1 (cancer lab): 1 first author publication in Biomaterials, 1 2nd author publication in Nanoscale
-Lab 2 (neuroscience lab): one 3rd author publication in Science
-Lab 3 (biomechanics lab): two 2nd author publication in Journal of Experimental Biology
A few abstracts/posters at conferences:
-Lab 3: poster at a computer science conference
-Lab 4 (environmental engineering): abstract submitted for an undergraduate engineering conference
Recommendations:
-recommendations from 4 PI's (should I reduce this and/or increase to include other PI's I've worked with?)
-computer science professor with whom I also went to the White House for a competition and had as an advisor for a club I'm the president of
-sociology professor who also wrote me a recommendation for a scholarship that I ended up receiving
Extracurriculars:
-Head of Technology Committee and member of Sustainability Committee in student government
-President of a club that teaches computer science to middle/high school students with low college matriculation rates and computer applications to refugees
Jobs:
-Interned at Oracle one summer
-Interned at IBM one summer
-Part time, remote job with Google for 3 years
Awards/Honors:
-Generation Google Scholarship
-Buick Achievers Scholarship
-university-related scholarship for high achievers in science/technology
-Dean's list
-Phi Beta Kappa honors society
Volunteering/Clinic Experience:
-Shadowed an oncologist for 50 hours
-Volunteered in oncology and ICU for 300 hours total
-Volunteered in a free clinic
Schools I'd like to apply to:
-Duke
-UNC
-Wake Forest
-Harvard
-Johns Hopkins
-UPenn
-Yale
-Dartmouth
-Northwestern
-Icahn
-Columbia
-Stanford
-Brown
I'll add a few safety schools after researching them better, but this is my tentative list.
Can anyone give me any suggestions as to what other schools I should think about adding/dropping? Also, how will the W's from my sophomore year look to admissions committees? Do I have a chance at these schools? Any advice would help. Thanks!
Education: state school, majors in chemistry and computer science; minor in math
Stats:
MCAT: 521
Cumulative GPA: 3.82
Science GPA: 3.89
It should be noted, however, that I have several W's from sophomore year, having withdrawn from most of my classes due to personal difficulties after having experienced sexual assault. This is the part of my application I'm most worried about. I feel like my application would be a lot stronger if this hadn't happened, and I'm not sure if I should mention it in my applications.
Research:
I was in multiple labs during undergrad and got some publications in a few of them:
-Lab 1 (cancer lab): 1 first author publication in Biomaterials, 1 2nd author publication in Nanoscale
-Lab 2 (neuroscience lab): one 3rd author publication in Science
-Lab 3 (biomechanics lab): two 2nd author publication in Journal of Experimental Biology
A few abstracts/posters at conferences:
-Lab 3: poster at a computer science conference
-Lab 4 (environmental engineering): abstract submitted for an undergraduate engineering conference
Recommendations:
-recommendations from 4 PI's (should I reduce this and/or increase to include other PI's I've worked with?)
-computer science professor with whom I also went to the White House for a competition and had as an advisor for a club I'm the president of
-sociology professor who also wrote me a recommendation for a scholarship that I ended up receiving
Extracurriculars:
-Head of Technology Committee and member of Sustainability Committee in student government
-President of a club that teaches computer science to middle/high school students with low college matriculation rates and computer applications to refugees
Jobs:
-Interned at Oracle one summer
-Interned at IBM one summer
-Part time, remote job with Google for 3 years
Awards/Honors:
-Generation Google Scholarship
-Buick Achievers Scholarship
-university-related scholarship for high achievers in science/technology
-Dean's list
-Phi Beta Kappa honors society
Volunteering/Clinic Experience:
-Shadowed an oncologist for 50 hours
-Volunteered in oncology and ICU for 300 hours total
-Volunteered in a free clinic
Schools I'd like to apply to:
-Duke
-UNC
-Wake Forest
-Harvard
-Johns Hopkins
-UPenn
-Yale
-Dartmouth
-Northwestern
-Icahn
-Columbia
-Stanford
-Brown
I'll add a few safety schools after researching them better, but this is my tentative list.
Can anyone give me any suggestions as to what other schools I should think about adding/dropping? Also, how will the W's from my sophomore year look to admissions committees? Do I have a chance at these schools? Any advice would help. Thanks!
