ilikeducks
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Hi I am a senior planning to take a gap year to do research, hoping to get accepted into a post graduate research position somewhere.
GPA: 3.92/4.00. Science major with minors in mathematics and biophysics. 510 MCAT, ORM.
Other than that these are my activities.
1) President of school's fencing club (multiple years), host multiple tournaments/events every year, planning a charity tournament this year to raise money for homeless soup kitchen.
2) President of a Christian Club that does Bible studies weekly.
3) Medical assistant/phlebotomist for an internal medicine physician ~700 hours by time of applying.
4) Research in both basic science research and in AI. One presentation for each lab so far, possible paper in both.
5) Shadowed a family medicine physician (25 hours), and a geriatric psychiatrist (25 hours), and did some virtual shadowing (22 hours).
6) Pell grant recipient, two other need based grant received, an award for being the top organic chemistry student one year, another scholarship received based on being a pre-medical student with a financial need.
7) Various volunteering at church, mostly with running kids events.
8) Volunteering at homeless soup kitchen, estimated ~100 hours by the time of applying.
9) TA for General Chemistry II.
10) Tutored a foreign middle school student in English over zoom.
My main thing right now is do I retake the MCAT, since the section I missed the most points by far is P/S, which I think I can improve a lot in. If not what should my school list be, since I am also a FAP recipient and can consider more schools than I would have before. I still have time before next cycle so this is something I am seriously considering. Any other advice about anything else would be great too.
GPA: 3.92/4.00. Science major with minors in mathematics and biophysics. 510 MCAT, ORM.
Other than that these are my activities.
1) President of school's fencing club (multiple years), host multiple tournaments/events every year, planning a charity tournament this year to raise money for homeless soup kitchen.
2) President of a Christian Club that does Bible studies weekly.
3) Medical assistant/phlebotomist for an internal medicine physician ~700 hours by time of applying.
4) Research in both basic science research and in AI. One presentation for each lab so far, possible paper in both.
5) Shadowed a family medicine physician (25 hours), and a geriatric psychiatrist (25 hours), and did some virtual shadowing (22 hours).
6) Pell grant recipient, two other need based grant received, an award for being the top organic chemistry student one year, another scholarship received based on being a pre-medical student with a financial need.
7) Various volunteering at church, mostly with running kids events.
8) Volunteering at homeless soup kitchen, estimated ~100 hours by the time of applying.
9) TA for General Chemistry II.
10) Tutored a foreign middle school student in English over zoom.
My main thing right now is do I retake the MCAT, since the section I missed the most points by far is P/S, which I think I can improve a lot in. If not what should my school list be, since I am also a FAP recipient and can consider more schools than I would have before. I still have time before next cycle so this is something I am seriously considering. Any other advice about anything else would be great too.
