premedstudent2243
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Hi everyone!! I am a current junior who is hoping to get some advice on whether to apply next cycle (2024-2025) or not. I'm open to a gap year, but don't necessarily want to take one if I don't have to.
- cGPA: 4.0, sGPA: 4.0 (not expecting this to change much over the next school year)
- MCAT score(s): 522 (131/132/128/131)
- State of residence: IL
- Ethnicity and/or race: ORM / white
- Undergraduate: T50 private, major: public health, minors: urban studies, spanish
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- Paid summer internship at pediatric office w/ MA duties: 400 hrs
- Hospital patient transport volunteering: 75 hrs (by time of application)
- *also hope to work as MA next summer and possibly do some different volunteering this spring
- Research experience
- Research assistant for cardiovascular study: 480 hrs (by time of app) - unsure if pubs / posters will happen
- 1 semester research project on food security that I plan to continue as senior thesis: 150 hrs (by time of app)
- Shadowing experience
- 15 hrs peds
- 5 hrs (+5 more projected) family med
- 4 hrs ophthalmology
- 4 hrs projected neonatal
- Hoping to get to around 50 hrs by time of apps
- Non-clinical volunteering
- 2 different community orgs focused on food insecurity (free pantry + urban farm): 100 hrs (by time of app)
- Campus health promotion volunteer: 100 hrs (by time of app)
- Other extracurricular activities
- Paid leadership position for campus health promotion organization: 150 hrs (by time of app) - implementing new nutrition workshop, cool position in my opinion
- TA + tutoring for intro bio class: 400 hrs (by time of app)
- Club soccer, some other random hobbies
- Relevant honors or awards
- Full-tuition 4-year scholarship at my university, not sure if relevant
- Other: studied abroad for a semester on a public health focused program - has given me some unique healthcare perspectives and high level of Spanish proficiency