Sara Larson
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Hello! Hoping to get some advice on my application. Unfortunately I don't have research experience but these are my other application details
- WI resident (I'd really like to go out of state, I hate it here)
- 23F, hispanic [if that is relevant]
- 3.6 cGPA [significant climb throughout my undergrad years]
- Graduated from University of WI-Milwaukee, B.A. in Bioloigcal Sciences in 2022 [cum laude]
- I took a gap semester due to mental health reasons and burnout but got back on track
- Tutor experience [2 semesters at a predominantely spanish school]
- I'm bilingual (Spanish)
- Volunteered abroad and locally in medical and nonmedical settings [100ish hours]
- 10 day international trip to guatemala setting up free clinics in rural cities
- created a protocol to help ER Staff identify and treat human trafficking victims at one of the hospitals I worked at [volunteered but paid, took a couple months to develop and implement]
- play piano every christmas at local assisted living facilities
- EC's are playing piano, baking, reading, and gem hunting
- I had to work all through high school and college so i have thousands of patient contact hours and great LORs from an MD and RN that i worked closely with for years
- Neurosurgical CNA for 1.5 years - 20hrs/wk
- ED Tech for 3.5 years - 28hrs/wk [got a lily award]
- Travel ED Tech - 36hrs/wk [at my travel assignment I was the first technician there and helped develop the position with management, we now have around 3 tech's that I'm orientating]
- I shadowed 2 ER docs and 1 Neurosurgeon [80ish hours]
- I maintained good relationships with my teachers and advisor so i have good LORs
- 2 from science professors and 1 from my pre-med advisor
- took the MCAT twice
- first time 496 [chem/phys 125, CARS 123, BB 126, Psych/soc 122]
- second time 503 [chem/phys 125, CARS 124, BB 127, Psych/soc 127]
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