Thanks for taking a look!
Background:
Demographics: Asian, Male, OH resident (moved from NC), ESL
Undergrad: top-10 school, graduated Spring 2015, Neuroscience (BS) and Chemistry (minor)
Grad school: several semesters of a post-bac, currently finishing up an SMP
GPA: undergrad was a 3.32cGPA/3.12sGPA; post-bac sGPA of 3.89; projected grad school sGPA ~3.6
MCAT: 1st try Summer 2015 for a 509 (129/124/127/129); retook Spring 2017 for a 521 (131/129/129/132)
Research: 2 semesters in undergrad (bench work) then another 2 semesters so far at grad school (poster presentation plus expecting a publication this Fall)
Clinical Volunteering: intensive care unit for several years (300 hrs)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Counselor at a free summer camp for at-risk youth (300 hrs); Habitat for Humanity (200 hrs); mentored and tutored kids from a single-parent household (refugee background)
Job-Shadowing: ~200 hours, 100 w/ a family doctor and 100 w/ a cardiologist; did shorter intervals with a pediatrician and at an emergency department
Work: Resident Assistant in undergrad; part-time medical assistant at an Urgent Care/Substance Abuse Facility (~1800 hours logged with strong clinical exposure to a socioeconomically-diverse patient population);
ECs: Student government for 3 years; exec positions at 2 different clubs (one cultural, one service); part of my school's cycling team (trained but never competed); peer advisor for mental health; did a summer program at a state medical school (which let undergrads sample MD-level coursework for 2 months)
Past Application Cycles: 2015-16 (no interviews) and 2017-18 (one interview and rejection). Received feedback from a few adcoms, who generally wanted to see a full year of an SMP GPA. The 521 MCAT will expire for many programs after the 2018-19 cycle, so I really want to make it count, and I’m willing to cast a wide net of applications to MD and DO schools, in addition to rewriting my essays.
School List (definitely lmk what to narrow down, and recommendations on adding DO programs)
Albany
Boston
Cincinnati
Creighton
Dartmouth
Drexel
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Hofstra
Illinois (Chicago)
Indiana
Iowa
Louisville
Loyola-Chicago
Marshall
Medical College of Wisconsin
Miami
Michigan State
New York Medical College
North Carolina
Northeast Ohio
Oakland-Beaumont
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Quinnipiac
Rochester
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Saint Louis
Seton Hall
South Florida
Temple
The Commonwealth/Geisinger
Thomas Jefferson
Toledo
Tufts
Tulane
Vermont
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Wayne State
West Virginia
Western Michigan
Wisconsin
Wright State
OU-HCOM
CUSOM
ACOM
Background:
Demographics: Asian, Male, OH resident (moved from NC), ESL
Undergrad: top-10 school, graduated Spring 2015, Neuroscience (BS) and Chemistry (minor)
Grad school: several semesters of a post-bac, currently finishing up an SMP
GPA: undergrad was a 3.32cGPA/3.12sGPA; post-bac sGPA of 3.89; projected grad school sGPA ~3.6
MCAT: 1st try Summer 2015 for a 509 (129/124/127/129); retook Spring 2017 for a 521 (131/129/129/132)
Research: 2 semesters in undergrad (bench work) then another 2 semesters so far at grad school (poster presentation plus expecting a publication this Fall)
Clinical Volunteering: intensive care unit for several years (300 hrs)
Non-Clinical Volunteering: Counselor at a free summer camp for at-risk youth (300 hrs); Habitat for Humanity (200 hrs); mentored and tutored kids from a single-parent household (refugee background)
Job-Shadowing: ~200 hours, 100 w/ a family doctor and 100 w/ a cardiologist; did shorter intervals with a pediatrician and at an emergency department
Work: Resident Assistant in undergrad; part-time medical assistant at an Urgent Care/Substance Abuse Facility (~1800 hours logged with strong clinical exposure to a socioeconomically-diverse patient population);
ECs: Student government for 3 years; exec positions at 2 different clubs (one cultural, one service); part of my school's cycling team (trained but never competed); peer advisor for mental health; did a summer program at a state medical school (which let undergrads sample MD-level coursework for 2 months)
Past Application Cycles: 2015-16 (no interviews) and 2017-18 (one interview and rejection). Received feedback from a few adcoms, who generally wanted to see a full year of an SMP GPA. The 521 MCAT will expire for many programs after the 2018-19 cycle, so I really want to make it count, and I’m willing to cast a wide net of applications to MD and DO schools, in addition to rewriting my essays.
School List (definitely lmk what to narrow down, and recommendations on adding DO programs)
Albany
Boston
Cincinnati
Creighton
Dartmouth
Drexel
Eastern Virginia
George Washington
Georgetown
Hofstra
Illinois (Chicago)
Indiana
Iowa
Louisville
Loyola-Chicago
Marshall
Medical College of Wisconsin
Miami
Michigan State
New York Medical College
North Carolina
Northeast Ohio
Oakland-Beaumont
Ohio State
Penn State
Pittsburgh
Quinnipiac
Rochester
Rosalind Franklin
Rush
Saint Louis
Seton Hall
South Florida
Temple
The Commonwealth/Geisinger
Thomas Jefferson
Toledo
Tufts
Tulane
Vermont
Virginia Commonwealth
Virginia Tech
Wake Forest
Wayne State
West Virginia
Western Michigan
Wisconsin
Wright State
OU-HCOM
CUSOM
ACOM
