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Hi everyone!
I'm a Army Nurse (promoting to Major next month) in my thirties, gunning specifically for USUHS - keeping ties to military service is as much of a certainty as I can control. Been a psychiatric nurse practitioner for the past seven years with very good track record of leadership. Now that my service obligation from previous Army scholarships are complete, I'm applying to matriculate to medical school starting in 2025. While USUHS is my top choice, I'm looking to generate my non-TX school list for programs to combine with HSCP so I can continue to support my family if USUHS doesn't pan out (hopefully that's not the case!)
I'm a Army Nurse (promoting to Major next month) in my thirties, gunning specifically for USUHS - keeping ties to military service is as much of a certainty as I can control. Been a psychiatric nurse practitioner for the past seven years with very good track record of leadership. Now that my service obligation from previous Army scholarships are complete, I'm applying to matriculate to medical school starting in 2025. While USUHS is my top choice, I'm looking to generate my non-TX school list for programs to combine with HSCP so I can continue to support my family if USUHS doesn't pan out (hopefully that's not the case!)
- 3.62 cGPA and 3.85 sGPA - Junior and Senior year of nursing school are where my dips are. I also have a 3.83 from my MSN and FHPE certificate for graduate GPA.
- MCAT: 516 (128/130/129/129)
- State of residence: PA
- Ethnicity and/or race White
- Undergraduate institution or category Private Jesuit school for Bachelor; Ivy League for graduate school w/ heavy involvement in student government.
- Clinical experience (volunteer and non-volunteer) 20,000 hrs as a psychiatric nurse, most of that as military psychiatric NP, several years before that as a inpatient RN. Have been running clinics a ward and been service line substance abuse consultant for past five years. ~100hrs Red Cross volunteer RN (school health fairs, race support).
- Research experience and productivity ~300 hrs ten years ago as graduate research assistant for nursing outcomes. No pubs and not a most meaningful experience but I can speak intelligently to what we did.
- Shadowing experience and specialties represented 100 hrs - Pain, Family, Emergency, Addiction, Urology
- Non-clinical volunteering 500 hrs for nonclinical Red Cross, church volunteering, USO, and other military community support.
- Other extracurricular activities (including athletics, military service, gap year activities, leadership, teaching, etc) - Army service - no deployments, but was relocated temporarily to provide care to Afghan refugees; have taught and coordinated CEU activities in our hospital; awarded for preceptorship of PA and NP students; postgraduate cert in health professionals education; engagement in multiple endurance events (no podiums, but I did write endurance sports as a most meaningful experience to better tell my story)
- Relevant honors or awards - skipping for this post
- Anything else not listed you think might be important - USUHS app was marked complete two week ago. I've been putting other schools on back-burner, juggling work and home, so no other schools have received my primary yet. I'm overseas so my DIY postbacc through a CC was done online; and since I needed two science LORs... two LORs are from professors who haven't met me face-to-face. My clinical LOR is fantastic, however. Schools with a reputation for scholarships are very important. I won't have 100% GI Bill for Yellow Ribbon for a couple more years, so schools that allow deferred acceptances of offer are also of interest if they're 100% yellow ribbon (for example, Drexel)
