- Joined
- Dec 23, 2011
- Messages
- 440
- Reaction score
- 534
Traditional Applicant
Caucasian Applicant
Washington State Resident
Attended a Single 4-Year Institution
Neurobiology Major (w/Honors)
Global Health, Bioethics & Humanities Minors
3.79 cGPA, 3.73 sGPA (strong upward trend)
38 MCAT (14/10/14, PS/VR/BS)
Member Phi Beta Kappa
Research
- 1 year, 300+ hours Neurosurgery research, co-author on a paper currently pending acceptance to a journal with an impact factor ~10 (ongoing)
Leadership
- Orientation Leader, lead freshman, transfer, and parent orientations at my university, facilitating group discussions, answering student/parent questions, giving presentations, performing skits etc.
- Team Leader for Healthcare Spring Break Trip, was a participant my first year in the program and a team leader the second year, setting up shadowing, housing, and high school presentations for 7 pre-health undergraduate students.
- Worked for two summers as a camp counselor with children 4-11 years of age, leading activities for full-day summer camps.
Teaching
- Biology tutor for 1.5+ years (500+ hours) working with students of racial/ethnic minorities, low socioeconomic status backgrounds and students with disabilities (ongoing)
- Biology TA for introductory biology class (1 quarter, 140 hours)
Shadowing
- 135 hours in ~10 specialties covering both surgery and medicine
- Also 32 hours shadowing each a pharmacist, dentist, nurse, and physician's assistant
Volunteering
- 225 hours of volunteering at homeless youth clinic in a variety of capacities (ongoing)
- 40 hours of volunteer tutoring at the same place I later became employed
- 35 hours volunteering for my college's radio station as a radio show host and assisting with on-campus music programming (ongoing)
Miscellaneous ECs
- Participated in intramural volleyball league
LORs
- 1 from biology professor for two classes, he is also a physician
- 1 from principal lecturer in biology department, had her for upper level physiology
- 1 from bioethics professor
- 1 from manager of homeless youth clinic I volunteer at
- 1 research letter from professor of neurological surgery (my PI)
- 1 from manager at a past private employer
School List
- Columbia University
- Harvard Medical School
- Keck School of Medicine (USC)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Oregon Health and Science University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Stanford University
- Tufts University
- Geffen, UCLA
- UCSD
- UCSF
- University of Chicago
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Washington (in-state)
- Brown University
- Washington University St. Louis
- Cornell University
Caucasian Applicant
Washington State Resident
Attended a Single 4-Year Institution
Neurobiology Major (w/Honors)
Global Health, Bioethics & Humanities Minors
3.79 cGPA, 3.73 sGPA (strong upward trend)
38 MCAT (14/10/14, PS/VR/BS)
Member Phi Beta Kappa
Research
- 1 year, 300+ hours Neurosurgery research, co-author on a paper currently pending acceptance to a journal with an impact factor ~10 (ongoing)
Leadership
- Orientation Leader, lead freshman, transfer, and parent orientations at my university, facilitating group discussions, answering student/parent questions, giving presentations, performing skits etc.
- Team Leader for Healthcare Spring Break Trip, was a participant my first year in the program and a team leader the second year, setting up shadowing, housing, and high school presentations for 7 pre-health undergraduate students.
- Worked for two summers as a camp counselor with children 4-11 years of age, leading activities for full-day summer camps.
Teaching
- Biology tutor for 1.5+ years (500+ hours) working with students of racial/ethnic minorities, low socioeconomic status backgrounds and students with disabilities (ongoing)
- Biology TA for introductory biology class (1 quarter, 140 hours)
Shadowing
- 135 hours in ~10 specialties covering both surgery and medicine
- Also 32 hours shadowing each a pharmacist, dentist, nurse, and physician's assistant
Volunteering
- 225 hours of volunteering at homeless youth clinic in a variety of capacities (ongoing)
- 40 hours of volunteer tutoring at the same place I later became employed
- 35 hours volunteering for my college's radio station as a radio show host and assisting with on-campus music programming (ongoing)
Miscellaneous ECs
- Participated in intramural volleyball league
LORs
- 1 from biology professor for two classes, he is also a physician
- 1 from principal lecturer in biology department, had her for upper level physiology
- 1 from bioethics professor
- 1 from manager of homeless youth clinic I volunteer at
- 1 research letter from professor of neurological surgery (my PI)
- 1 from manager at a past private employer
School List
- Columbia University
- Harvard Medical School
- Keck School of Medicine (USC)
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- New York University
- Northwestern University
- Oregon Health and Science University
- University of Pennsylvania
- Stanford University
- Tufts University
- Geffen, UCLA
- UCSD
- UCSF
- University of Chicago
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of Washington (in-state)
- Brown University
- Washington University St. Louis
- Cornell University
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