- Joined
- May 15, 2016
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- Upcoming Senior, BA physiology, music minor
- USA, South Dakota Resident
- 17 total schools - Albert Einstein COM, Case Western, Creighton, Loma Linda, Loyola, Medical College WI, NY Medical College, Rush MC, Sanford (South Dakota), Thomas Jefferson, UMN-Twin Cities, UMKC, U Pittsburg, U Rochester, Wake Forest, Washington U
- cGPA 3.5, sGPA 3.2 or so (ugh, still have 30 credits of upper level science courses to go..will probably go up during senior year. Only thing on transcript are lots of Bs from the weed out classes)
- MCAT - Took May 6th, expecting upper 500s (507 or 508)
- Research - One summer clinical research at level I trauma center
- Volunteering - Volunteer EMT for 2 years senior HS and freshman college
- Physician shadowing - 60 hours total, EM, Neurology, Stroke, Family medicine
- EC - VP of Communications for Student Group, lots of time with campus orchestras and wind ensembles (top level graduate ensembles)
- Work hx - 1 summer direct support professional for pediatric autism clients (~900 total hours), 1 full time year as critical care paramedic (~2400 total hours). Also have Flight Paramedic - Certifed (FP-C) pass, (4% of medics in MN have this cert)
- Family in medicine, lots of family RNs, mother is a pharmD
- Interest in primary care, rural medicine and emergency medicine
I'm still kind of torn on if I should apply this year or not. I think it really depends what MCAT score I get back in June that will sink or swim my application