Hi there,
I'm a CT resident who went to my state school. My undergraduate sGPA was around 3.1 and my overall a 3.4. I went to Tufts SMP and earned a 3.83.
I got an 10/11/14 on the MCAT, up six points from 8/12/9 two years ago.
Undergrad activities:
-President of a cultural club for two years at undergrad
-President of a political group on campus for one year.
-48 hours in the ER volunteering on a research project with patient contact over 6 months.
-Shadowing/clinical work overseas on an underserved population for a few weeks.
-Summer after my freshman year I worked at an oncology center as an assistant and all around secretary for the nurses in the infusion center.
-2 years worth of undergraduate research and wrote an honors thesis on my results.
-The summer after undergrad I interned for a biotech company for two months and presented my work in an event with a poster. No publications unfortunately.
During my SMP year:
-Volunteered at a medical student run clinic in an under served area, at times working alongside first years we shared classes with (seeing patients) and other times as a case manager, connecting needy patients with social services, food, shelter, etc. This was once every other week for 5 hours at night for about 5-6 months, totaling about 60-70 hours.
-I also shadowed a major surgery unit (holding exact resident hours for a week) over spring break, though I did not feel comfortable getting what I suspected would be a cookie cutter letter of recommendation. 60 hours total.
My LoRs, which went into a packet:
1.) Director of the SMP program [Should be good]
2.) SMP professor [Did excellent in his class, but probably cookie cutter]
3.) SMP advisor [We were never really super close, but I think I made a good impression over the year]
4.) Written by the clinic coordinator of the student run clinic. Unfortunately, he was a first year medical student.
5.) Undergrad advisor [Very enthusiastic]
6.) Undergrad Biochem Professor from 2 years ago [Was one of her favorite students, even though I only got a B in her class]
7.) Undergrad humanities Professor [Pretty good]
8.) Letter from MD I shadowed overseas [His english is terrible though]
9.) Cookie cutter letter of participation from MD overseeing the research project I volunteered to help with in the ED
I am a reapplicant and was rejected from all 12 schools in 2011, though they were very poorly chosen (at least four were very OOS unfriendly). I also sent my primary in September. I had trouble coming up with the existing list because I wasn't sure how much the SMP GPA makes up for the UG GPA.
This is my existing school list, chosen before I got my MCAT results back with the assumption I got a 31. I ended up with a 35, so I want to add some higher tier schools. Which ones do you think I can add in and still have a good shot at?
Location is somewhat important (Prefer at least one of the following: major city, coastal areas, warmer climate) but I just want to get in somewhere.
In state:
UConn (alma mater)
Quinnipiac
Northeast:
Tufts (SMP alma mater)
NYCM
Cooper Rowan
Hofstra
Temple Philly *has SMP
Commonwealth
Drexel *have SMP
Howard
Suny Downstate
Southeast:
GWU
Georgetown *have SMP
UCF
FIU
USC Greenville
Wake Forest
VCU
Other:
Tulane *have SMP
Rosalind Franklin *have SMP
Loyola Stritch *have SMP
U of Arizona: Phoenix
U of Arizona Tuscon
I submitted the primary July 5, not yet verified.
I'm a CT resident who went to my state school. My undergraduate sGPA was around 3.1 and my overall a 3.4. I went to Tufts SMP and earned a 3.83.
I got an 10/11/14 on the MCAT, up six points from 8/12/9 two years ago.
Undergrad activities:
-President of a cultural club for two years at undergrad
-President of a political group on campus for one year.
-48 hours in the ER volunteering on a research project with patient contact over 6 months.
-Shadowing/clinical work overseas on an underserved population for a few weeks.
-Summer after my freshman year I worked at an oncology center as an assistant and all around secretary for the nurses in the infusion center.
-2 years worth of undergraduate research and wrote an honors thesis on my results.
-The summer after undergrad I interned for a biotech company for two months and presented my work in an event with a poster. No publications unfortunately.
During my SMP year:
-Volunteered at a medical student run clinic in an under served area, at times working alongside first years we shared classes with (seeing patients) and other times as a case manager, connecting needy patients with social services, food, shelter, etc. This was once every other week for 5 hours at night for about 5-6 months, totaling about 60-70 hours.
-I also shadowed a major surgery unit (holding exact resident hours for a week) over spring break, though I did not feel comfortable getting what I suspected would be a cookie cutter letter of recommendation. 60 hours total.
My LoRs, which went into a packet:
1.) Director of the SMP program [Should be good]
2.) SMP professor [Did excellent in his class, but probably cookie cutter]
3.) SMP advisor [We were never really super close, but I think I made a good impression over the year]
4.) Written by the clinic coordinator of the student run clinic. Unfortunately, he was a first year medical student.
5.) Undergrad advisor [Very enthusiastic]
6.) Undergrad Biochem Professor from 2 years ago [Was one of her favorite students, even though I only got a B in her class]
7.) Undergrad humanities Professor [Pretty good]
8.) Letter from MD I shadowed overseas [His english is terrible though]
9.) Cookie cutter letter of participation from MD overseeing the research project I volunteered to help with in the ED
I am a reapplicant and was rejected from all 12 schools in 2011, though they were very poorly chosen (at least four were very OOS unfriendly). I also sent my primary in September. I had trouble coming up with the existing list because I wasn't sure how much the SMP GPA makes up for the UG GPA.
This is my existing school list, chosen before I got my MCAT results back with the assumption I got a 31. I ended up with a 35, so I want to add some higher tier schools. Which ones do you think I can add in and still have a good shot at?
Location is somewhat important (Prefer at least one of the following: major city, coastal areas, warmer climate) but I just want to get in somewhere.
In state:
UConn (alma mater)
Quinnipiac
Northeast:
Tufts (SMP alma mater)
NYCM
Cooper Rowan
Hofstra
Temple Philly *has SMP
Commonwealth
Drexel *have SMP
Howard
Suny Downstate
Southeast:
GWU
Georgetown *have SMP
UCF
FIU
USC Greenville
Wake Forest
VCU
Other:
Tulane *have SMP
Rosalind Franklin *have SMP
Loyola Stritch *have SMP
U of Arizona: Phoenix
U of Arizona Tuscon
I submitted the primary July 5, not yet verified.
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