YAY congrats!! Do you mind sharing your stats?
I don't mind at all!
Stats:
• MCAT: 501
• Cumulative GPA: 3.39
• Science GPA: 3.30
• Non-Science GPA: 3.52
Extracurricular Activities:
•
Research Assistant (Psychology) - Total Hours: 125
→ Participated in a research study looking at whether a brief recollection intervention will lead to better physical and mental health among individuals above the age of 60.
→ Displayed excellent interpersonal skills while working with a research team to successfully administer experiments.
→ Managed research participants through scheduling, correspondence, paperwork, and task facilitation, maintaining confidentiality throughout.
•
Research Assistant (Organic Chemistry) - Total Hours: 400
→ Created a library of compounds (chalcones, bis-chalcones, pyrazolines, and bis-pyrazolines) that bear hybrid biological behavior because of their structural similarity to curcuminoids.
→ Refluxed reactions involving terephthaldehyde and substituted acetophenones.
→ Monitored the progress of reactions by thin-layer chromatography.
→ Characterized products upon recrystallization by melting point, infrared radiation, and nuclear magnetic resonance.
→ Extracted organic compounds from solid-phase samples and prepared them for gas chromatography analysis.
•
President of the Scientific Literature Society - Total Hours: 400
→ Created a space and audience for students to carry out research poster presentations, mock interviews, and argumentative debates surrounding current world events with a focus on the scientific field.
Healthcare Experience:
•
Shadowing Experience -Total Hours: 140
→ Pediatric Emergency Specialist (M.D.)
→ Pediatric Cardiac Surgeon (M.D.)
→ Interventional Radiologist (M.D.)
→ Mental Health Specialist (M.D.)
→ Ophthalmologist (M.D.)
→ Gastroenterologist (M.D.)
→ Psychiatrist (M.D.)
→ Dermatologist (D.O.)
→ Internist (M.D.)
•
Healthcare Volunteer - Total Hours: 1100
→ Communicated the needs of patients to nurses and acted as a liaison for the healthcare team.
→ Transported patients to all areas within the hospital.
→ Cleaned equipment, prepared beds, and restocked lab supplies.
→ Maintained patient medical charts and filed medical record forms.
→ Aided patients with filling up prescription orders and assisted nurses in preparing medication for intravenous treatments.
→ Collaborated with other departments throughout the hospital ensuring teamwork and patient satisfaction.
Non-Healthcare Employment:
•
Private Tutor - Total Hours: 3300
→ Developed and implemented comprehensive lesson plans to accommodate specific type of learners.
→ Enhanced lessons through integration of innovative educational technology.
→ Tutored large number of students in topics ranging from Chemistry to English.
•
Laboratory Assistant (Organic Chemistry) - Total Hours: 150
→ Leveraged strong planning and time management skills in performing laboratory reconfiguration to accommodate each classes' experimental setup.
→ Demonstrated a high degree of proficiency deciphering independent professors' experimental frameworks, formulations, and methods to produce quality experiments.
→ Highly adept in creating dilutions utilizing irregular quantities of solute/solvent in laboratory classes requiring immediate additional quantities.
•
Tae Kwon-Do Instructor - Total Hours: 3200
→ Instructed students ages 4-59 in Tae Kwon-Do utilizing studied knowledge of motion through concepts and principles.
→ Motivated and challenged students to help them excel at their own personal goals.
→ Instructed student leadership classes for children to promote motivational attitude, self-confidence, discipline, and esteem.
→ Properly demonstrated self-defense tactics while being technically sound with vocalization.
→ Exercised professional judgement in various situations to ensure requirements were met according to age and rank.
→ Evaluated student performance to determine promotion in rank.
Non-Healthcare Volunteer:
•
Accompanist - Total Hours: 50
→ Performed with Sudha Ragunathan, one of India's leading Carnatic performers, in a fundraising concert for the Rumbaugh Goodwin Institute of Cancer Research (RGI) to support its training and drug discovery efforts.
