- cGPA and sGPA as calculated by AMCAS or AACOMAS
- sGPA 3.91
- cGPA 3.83
- MCAT score(s) and breakdown
- Second: 517 (126,131,128,132)
- First: 508 (124, 131, 125, 128)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US)
- California
- Ethnicity and/or race
- ORM - White
- Undergraduate institution or category
- BA Rhetoric from UC Berkeley
- BS Nursing from Cal State LA
- Post-Bacc Certificate from UCLA Extension
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer)
- 7 years in healthcare (2 as a CNA, 5 as an RN in ER) >10,000 hours non-volunteer clinical
- Volunteer: 400 hours working with unhoused communities providing medical screenings, vaccines, primary care referrals, wound care
- Committee leader for non-profit org
- Research experience and productivity
- None : /
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented
- None explicitly, but I have LORs from MDs ive worked closely with in the ER
- Non-clinical volunteering
- Didn't include this on my OG app, but in high school I volunteered with Planned Parenthood and went with them as a lobbyist to fight restrictive abortion legislation (this would have been in like 2007). it was around 100 hours, thought it might be too old to include. thoughts?
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc)
- 10 years working in HR/Accounting
- 2 years as a paralegal
- Relevant honors or awards
- I graduated with honors from college, summa cum laude from BS in nursing
- School list: from previous cycle -
UCLA, UCSF, UC Davis, UCSD, UCI, USC, SUNY Downstate, Ichan SOM, GW, BU, Chicago Med school, Northwestern, Rush, U of Illinois, Temple, OHSU, Emory, U of Michigan, Kaiser, Michigan State, U of Vermont, Wayne State (WL), UCR (WL), Drexel (pending)
Wondering if there might be some insight into how to improve my app this cycle. I'm going to apply DO this time as well, didn't last cycle because my end goal is trauma surgery and I was afraid DO would hurt my chances of matching. Thanks in advance!
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