aspiringepiscientist
New Member
- Joined
- Jun 11, 2020
- Messages
- 2
- Reaction score
- 0
Hey All, I'd really appreciate some advice here.
I originally applied back in the cycle for Fall 2019 acceptance (submit primary in 2018). For various reasons, I received 3 II -> 2 WL and nothing afterwards. I wasn't in a good place while applying, wrote the PS 2 days before submitting on the last day of June (activity descriptions were very bland, rushed, and poor), sent secondaries in Sept->October, and overall meh ECs with no clinical other than shadowing. I was really immature at the time and did not understand the magnitude of med school apps and was not ready to serve humanity at the time. I have since become much more mature and wiser, and learned a lot and sent in my primary for this cycle. I was wondering if you could help me with my school list.
I graduated cum laude in engineering from an Ivy in 2019, cGPA 3.7, sGPA 3.78, MCAT 519 Aug 2017 (I know this puts me out from some schools which I have already tried to contact and eliminate from my list. Since then I am pursuing a 2 year MS in Epidemiology from a T5 med school (current 4.0 GPA).
ECs:
UG:
Founded fraternity & president
Head Rep (part of the founding of the program too) from my school of a program with the UNGEI working with girls in Africa for several years
Founded (& President) organization to link organizations across Ivies, since have held 3 successful conferences starting 2018
Selected for a highly competitive leadership program
2nd author pub from UG research
Since graduating:
Basketball Coach for the local community, coached two teams,
Volunteered in hospital, teaching hospitalized kids and working in a patient care unit
Founded startup with chief of surgery in a department here at my grad school on healthcare comms
Lots of research (projects in multiple departments) ~2k hours, 2 pubs submitted, at least 2 more by end of July, should have ~8-15 by graduation
TA for grad level course
worked full time as medical assistant for the summer
Lots of shadowing
mentor at-risk high school youth in area
currently volunteering as contact tracer during covid pandemic
certified personal trainer
at least several hundred hours for each of the things listed
Will have 6 LoR
For reference, I am first-generation, disadvantaged, CA in-state
I will be a reapplicant to many of these schools (of which I had no business applying to the first time around)
Any help would be much appreciated, schools to add, schools to delete etc. Some of the schools I have eliminated because my MCAT falls out of range are UCLA, UCI, NYU, Northwestern, Brown, Baylor, Dartmouth, USC
Schools:
I originally applied back in the cycle for Fall 2019 acceptance (submit primary in 2018). For various reasons, I received 3 II -> 2 WL and nothing afterwards. I wasn't in a good place while applying, wrote the PS 2 days before submitting on the last day of June (activity descriptions were very bland, rushed, and poor), sent secondaries in Sept->October, and overall meh ECs with no clinical other than shadowing. I was really immature at the time and did not understand the magnitude of med school apps and was not ready to serve humanity at the time. I have since become much more mature and wiser, and learned a lot and sent in my primary for this cycle. I was wondering if you could help me with my school list.
I graduated cum laude in engineering from an Ivy in 2019, cGPA 3.7, sGPA 3.78, MCAT 519 Aug 2017 (I know this puts me out from some schools which I have already tried to contact and eliminate from my list. Since then I am pursuing a 2 year MS in Epidemiology from a T5 med school (current 4.0 GPA).
ECs:
UG:
Founded fraternity & president
Head Rep (part of the founding of the program too) from my school of a program with the UNGEI working with girls in Africa for several years
Founded (& President) organization to link organizations across Ivies, since have held 3 successful conferences starting 2018
Selected for a highly competitive leadership program
2nd author pub from UG research
Since graduating:
Basketball Coach for the local community, coached two teams,
Volunteered in hospital, teaching hospitalized kids and working in a patient care unit
Founded startup with chief of surgery in a department here at my grad school on healthcare comms
Lots of research (projects in multiple departments) ~2k hours, 2 pubs submitted, at least 2 more by end of July, should have ~8-15 by graduation
TA for grad level course
worked full time as medical assistant for the summer
Lots of shadowing
mentor at-risk high school youth in area
currently volunteering as contact tracer during covid pandemic
certified personal trainer
at least several hundred hours for each of the things listed
Will have 6 LoR
For reference, I am first-generation, disadvantaged, CA in-state
I will be a reapplicant to many of these schools (of which I had no business applying to the first time around)
Any help would be much appreciated, schools to add, schools to delete etc. Some of the schools I have eliminated because my MCAT falls out of range are UCLA, UCI, NYU, Northwestern, Brown, Baylor, Dartmouth, USC
Schools:
- Einstein
- Columbia,
- Duke,
- Emory,
- Harvard,
- George Washington
- Ohio State,
- Penn State,
- UPenn,
- Saint Louis,
- Sidney Kimmel Jefferson
- Stanford,
- Brown,
- Tufts,
- Tulane,
- UCSF,
- UCSD,
- UChicago,
- UConn,
- UMass,
- UMiami,
- UMichigan,
- UPitt,
- Vandy,
- WUSTL,
- Weill Cornell,
- Yale
Last edited:
