Hey everybody, recently got my MCAT score back and now starting to think about schools to apply to. I'm kind of in a weird spot in that I've recently become a Texas resident even though I've spent a very limited amount of time actually living in Texas. Excited about cheap tuition but also not quite sure about going to school in Texas so definitely planning on some East Coast schools. Thanks in advance!
- cGPA: 3.93 sGPa: 3.93 Upward Trend with a 4.0 since fall of freshman year
- MCAT score and breakdown: 518 (128/130/129/131)
- State of residence or country of citizenship (if non-US): Texas, spent most of life living in NY, ties to PA
- Ethnicity and/or race: White Male
- Undergraduate institution or category: LAC Chemistry Major
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer): 600 hours volunteer EMT, 350 hours working as a MA at clinic for a specific underserved pop (This was a pretty critical experience towards my journey in medicine have a lot to talk about also received grant from my college to do it)
- Research experience and productivity:
- Chemistry Lab (non-clinical): 1200 hours, 1 1st author publication with another in the work both in mid journals specific to the field
- Chemistry Lab (non-clinical): 300 hours, 1 conference presentation
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented: 100 hours (EM, Ortho, Family Med, Onc)
- Non-clinical volunteering:
- 150 hours at food pantry
- 150 hours coaching and tutoring underserved kids
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc):
- NCAA D3 Athlete (2500 hours) Team Captain, In charge of Community Service, Also pretty successful in my sport (All-conference, All-time Records at my college)
- Leader of Club related to clinical experience described above
- Will use Gap Year to do clinical research likely in Texas
- Anything else not listed you think might be important: Just kind of in a weird spot with now being a Texas resident. I'm not quite sure if that now makes it impossible to get into schools on the East Coast and therefore not sure about school list
- School List: MD: All Texas Schools, Then not quite sure I'm not really sure if I'm competitive at top schools and worried that anything under that won't accept me because I'm now a Texas resident.
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