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Thank you in advance for all your time and help!
I am a non-traditional applicant, age 33+. I am in MA state. U.S. Permanent resident.
Two master degrees: One in inorganic chemistry; another in organic chemistry
7+ years of working (and research) experience in pharmaceutical companies after I graduated from my second master. I am currently working as a biochemist, doing bench research in the stage of drug discovery.
13+ years of research experience: including 7 years of working (see above), and 6 years of research in the chemistry labs. I have two publications from my first master (one first author, another second author), which were about 10 years ago.
5+ years of teaching experience: teaching assistant in chemistry lab during my graduate studies, tutoring since I was in my college, my bachelor school is a normal school which trains the future teachers.
200 hours + volunteering in the hospital (patient discharge, escort, assisting in the ER, etc.)
100 hours + volunteering in communities service (including helping with homeless people, disadvantaged young children, educating kids, etc.)
50 hours + shadowing physicians (shadowing different specialties, including surgeon, oncologist, psychiatrist, D.O. specializing in OMM and etc.)
GPA:
bachelor GPA in a foreign country (calculated by WES): 3.49
master GPA in a foreign country (calculated by WES): 3.7
U.S. master GPA: 3.4
Post-bac (some premed courses) GPA: 3.58 (with one grade replacement)
MCAT: 1st time: 24 (11 PS/6 verbal/7 BS); 26 (12 PS/4 Verbal/10 BS)
(I know my MCAT score is low, especially for the verbal. I don't know what happened to my 2nd verbal score, which is even lower than my 1st MCAT. I am a non-native English speaker. I do believe I did try my best and this is the best I could do for now. MCAT is changing now, so even I retake it, the scores in the new version has no way of comparing with my old scores. Therefore I have decided not to retake it any more.)
Leadership experience: was the president in the study division at the student association of my undergraduate college.
Please let me know if you need more information from me. Please feel free to let me know what I can do to enhance my chance.
Thank you again!
I am a non-traditional applicant, age 33+. I am in MA state. U.S. Permanent resident.
Two master degrees: One in inorganic chemistry; another in organic chemistry
7+ years of working (and research) experience in pharmaceutical companies after I graduated from my second master. I am currently working as a biochemist, doing bench research in the stage of drug discovery.
13+ years of research experience: including 7 years of working (see above), and 6 years of research in the chemistry labs. I have two publications from my first master (one first author, another second author), which were about 10 years ago.
5+ years of teaching experience: teaching assistant in chemistry lab during my graduate studies, tutoring since I was in my college, my bachelor school is a normal school which trains the future teachers.
200 hours + volunteering in the hospital (patient discharge, escort, assisting in the ER, etc.)
100 hours + volunteering in communities service (including helping with homeless people, disadvantaged young children, educating kids, etc.)
50 hours + shadowing physicians (shadowing different specialties, including surgeon, oncologist, psychiatrist, D.O. specializing in OMM and etc.)
GPA:
bachelor GPA in a foreign country (calculated by WES): 3.49
master GPA in a foreign country (calculated by WES): 3.7
U.S. master GPA: 3.4
Post-bac (some premed courses) GPA: 3.58 (with one grade replacement)
MCAT: 1st time: 24 (11 PS/6 verbal/7 BS); 26 (12 PS/4 Verbal/10 BS)
(I know my MCAT score is low, especially for the verbal. I don't know what happened to my 2nd verbal score, which is even lower than my 1st MCAT. I am a non-native English speaker. I do believe I did try my best and this is the best I could do for now. MCAT is changing now, so even I retake it, the scores in the new version has no way of comparing with my old scores. Therefore I have decided not to retake it any more.)
Leadership experience: was the president in the study division at the student association of my undergraduate college.
Please let me know if you need more information from me. Please feel free to let me know what I can do to enhance my chance.
Thank you again!
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