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Hey, I'm a junior at UF who would like an honest chancing for MD/DO programs in the United States. Well, here I go:
AMCAS gpa: Cgpa:3.44 sgpa: 3.28 ( I know not that great, I made a mistake of being a math major for the first two years of my career here), am now a Psychology Neuroscience Major. Want to do pediatrics.
AACOMAS gpa: Even worse: Cgpa: 3.44 sgpa, 3.18 (a lot of my math grades were really good, I only got one C)
Projected MCAT grade: 28-30
Volunteering: Over 200 hours at a local elementary school watching over/mentoring over 50 kids on my own (will be well over 200 hours when I apply)
Clinical/Shadowing: Over 250+ hours with 350 patients seen with my pediatrician who helped me through pneumonia, costocondritis and several bouts of bronchitis, performed examinations and other procedures on patients with patients and parents consent in order to learn, learned and was quizzed on physical examination of the pediatric patient from a medical textbook weekly.
Extracurriculars: 3 years of AMSA, 3 years of being a dedicated baritone in a competitive Acapella group here, was in the University Math Society for 2 years, was a student senator for student government in the summer 2012.
LORS: 1. Pediatrician I shadowed/learned under who was the reason I wanted to go into medicine
2. Main supervisor at the elementary school I have volunteered at for the past 3 years
3. Very close friend my high school band director who I was a section leader in his band for 3 years, marched for 4 years total, helped me through problems with a family member who has been in and out of mental hospitals for a long while
4. Calculus 3 professor who claimed I was his top student
5. Chemistry 2 professor who claimed I was top 30 percent
Reasons for wanting to go into medicine: mixture of wanting to help kids who were like me, over anxious about scary illnesses like pneumonia, to help them through their fears physiologically and emotionally, also to gain perspective on the physiological aspects of the mental illness my family member has that has deeply affected my family.
Wanting to matriculate at the following places:
MD: USUHS (Bethesda Army Medicine, top choice)
UT
FSU
FAU
Georgetown
Tulane
DO: Any respectable DO schools, Im not too familiar with DO schools personally, but I'm definitely not shunning that possibility, medicine is medicine 🙂
AMCAS gpa: Cgpa:3.44 sgpa: 3.28 ( I know not that great, I made a mistake of being a math major for the first two years of my career here), am now a Psychology Neuroscience Major. Want to do pediatrics.
AACOMAS gpa: Even worse: Cgpa: 3.44 sgpa, 3.18 (a lot of my math grades were really good, I only got one C)
Projected MCAT grade: 28-30
Volunteering: Over 200 hours at a local elementary school watching over/mentoring over 50 kids on my own (will be well over 200 hours when I apply)
Clinical/Shadowing: Over 250+ hours with 350 patients seen with my pediatrician who helped me through pneumonia, costocondritis and several bouts of bronchitis, performed examinations and other procedures on patients with patients and parents consent in order to learn, learned and was quizzed on physical examination of the pediatric patient from a medical textbook weekly.
Extracurriculars: 3 years of AMSA, 3 years of being a dedicated baritone in a competitive Acapella group here, was in the University Math Society for 2 years, was a student senator for student government in the summer 2012.
LORS: 1. Pediatrician I shadowed/learned under who was the reason I wanted to go into medicine
2. Main supervisor at the elementary school I have volunteered at for the past 3 years
3. Very close friend my high school band director who I was a section leader in his band for 3 years, marched for 4 years total, helped me through problems with a family member who has been in and out of mental hospitals for a long while
4. Calculus 3 professor who claimed I was his top student
5. Chemistry 2 professor who claimed I was top 30 percent
Reasons for wanting to go into medicine: mixture of wanting to help kids who were like me, over anxious about scary illnesses like pneumonia, to help them through their fears physiologically and emotionally, also to gain perspective on the physiological aspects of the mental illness my family member has that has deeply affected my family.
Wanting to matriculate at the following places:
MD: USUHS (Bethesda Army Medicine, top choice)
UT
FSU
FAU
Georgetown
Tulane
DO: Any respectable DO schools, Im not too familiar with DO schools personally, but I'm definitely not shunning that possibility, medicine is medicine 🙂
