Hello everyone! This is my first time posting so sorry in advance if I do anything incorrectly.
For some background, I currently attend UW-Madison and I plan on applying this upcoming cycle. I was hoping for some advice in terms of school list and any holes in my app.
Texas Resident
Major: Neurobiology/Psychology
Minor(Called a certificate at Madison): Japanese Professional Communications
1. Mcat: 514 (129,130,126,129)
2. cGPA: 3.67, sGPA: 3.64 - I had some questions about this since TMDSAS does grading differently. UW Madison does an A/AB/B/BC scale with an AB being 3.5, BC being a 2.5, etc. I have a decent amount of AB grades and was wondering how TMDSAS would grade those since if that would be an A on their scale it would definitely help my gpa.
3. Clinical experience
Volunteer: EMT in a rural area (200 hours, 4 months to date), ER (20 hours, very quickly felt like I wasn't really doing anything)
Non-Volunteer: Patient Sitter (900 hours, 16 months to date)
4. Research: 800 hours (neuroscience, 2 posters, 2.5 years)
I am currently being trained to work with primates and will being that for my research work moving forward
5. Shadowing: 60 hours - neurosurgery clinic, plastic surgery OR (plan to also shadow a family medicine physician prior to applying)
6. Non-clinical volunteering: 40 hours (food pantry, community center) - this is an area I am concerned about, but I am currently volunteering at the community center and hope to be there more, still don't know if that number will be much higher prior to applying since I will be studying abroad this summer.
7. Extracurriculars:
AED premed club - 2 years, 120 hours, national member
Chinese American Student Association - 3 years, 300 hours, board member for 2 years, event coordinator and we organize one of the biggest annual student cultural events (400+ people)
Working School List
TX:
BCM
Southwestern
McGovern
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
UT San Antonio
UT Austin Dell
UTMB
OOS:
UW Madison
California University of Science and Medicine
Albany University
Albert Einstein
New York Medical College
Colorado
Would it be worth applying to programs like:
NYU
Kaiser
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
Thank you for your time and help!
For some background, I currently attend UW-Madison and I plan on applying this upcoming cycle. I was hoping for some advice in terms of school list and any holes in my app.
Texas Resident
Major: Neurobiology/Psychology
Minor(Called a certificate at Madison): Japanese Professional Communications
1. Mcat: 514 (129,130,126,129)
2. cGPA: 3.67, sGPA: 3.64 - I had some questions about this since TMDSAS does grading differently. UW Madison does an A/AB/B/BC scale with an AB being 3.5, BC being a 2.5, etc. I have a decent amount of AB grades and was wondering how TMDSAS would grade those since if that would be an A on their scale it would definitely help my gpa.
3. Clinical experience
Volunteer: EMT in a rural area (200 hours, 4 months to date), ER (20 hours, very quickly felt like I wasn't really doing anything)
Non-Volunteer: Patient Sitter (900 hours, 16 months to date)
4. Research: 800 hours (neuroscience, 2 posters, 2.5 years)
I am currently being trained to work with primates and will being that for my research work moving forward
5. Shadowing: 60 hours - neurosurgery clinic, plastic surgery OR (plan to also shadow a family medicine physician prior to applying)
6. Non-clinical volunteering: 40 hours (food pantry, community center) - this is an area I am concerned about, but I am currently volunteering at the community center and hope to be there more, still don't know if that number will be much higher prior to applying since I will be studying abroad this summer.
7. Extracurriculars:
AED premed club - 2 years, 120 hours, national member
Chinese American Student Association - 3 years, 300 hours, board member for 2 years, event coordinator and we organize one of the biggest annual student cultural events (400+ people)
Working School List
TX:
BCM
Southwestern
McGovern
Texas A&M
Texas Tech
UT San Antonio
UT Austin Dell
UTMB
OOS:
UW Madison
California University of Science and Medicine
Albany University
Albert Einstein
New York Medical College
Colorado
Would it be worth applying to programs like:
NYU
Kaiser
UC Irvine
UC San Diego
UC San Francisco
Thank you for your time and help!
