3.92 GPA with 520 MCAT

[Pembo23]

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Hi everyone,

I would love to hear your feedback on my candidacy and school choices.

MCAT: 520 (130/130/128/132)

cGPA: 3.92

sGPA: 3.95

Grad GPA: 3.93

Year in School: 2nd year MPH Student

Undergrad Institution: Large State School

Residence: VA

Clinical volunteering:

With Patient Interaction

VA in recreation room with patient care: 40 hours
Second hospital: ~180 hours
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No Patient Interaction

VA in environmental services: 20 hours
Internship at VA with health promotion department: 100 hrs​

Physician shadowing: ~40 hours, will be getting more

Research

Undergrad: 2.5 years in Psych research lab, completed an Honor's Thesis my senior year, ~ 500 hours

Grad: 2 years as a graduate research assistant for public health, 1 publication as coauthor, 2 others as first author in development, ~600 hours

Teaching

Teaching Assistant for a graduate level behavioral science theory course

Nonclinical Volunteering

Head of organizational outreach for a service event at a national public health conference

Planning committee for an event to honor cultural diversity in school.

Habitat for Humanity builds during two of my spring breaks

Extracurriculars

Part of undergraduate institution's Men's Choir for 6 semesters: ~500 hours

Joined international student outreach team in my campus ministry: ~400 hours

Awards:

Graduate Research Assistantship Scholarship award
Departmental Honors in Psychology
Delta Omega Public Health Honor Society

Other:

Marketing Internship for 3 summers. 10 hrs per week.




Schools: (Bold schools are schools I will be a reapplicant to)

Personal ties

University of Kentucky (Undergrad)
Saint Louis University (Grad)
Ohio State (sibling attends, may not help)
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State Schools

UVA
VCU
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Reach Schools

Harvard
Brown
Hopkins
UCSF
Wash U
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Other schools

Emory
Tulane
Georgetown (family in DC area)
GW (family in DC area)
Miami
Tufts
UNC
Quinnipiac​

 

[Faha]

When you applied previously did you have the same stats? Any interviews or wait list? Did you apply late?

 

[Pembo23]

Previous Stats:

cGPA: 3.92

sGPA: 3.98

MCAT: 31

Interviews and Waitlist: SLU, Kentucky, and VCU

 

[Goro]

Hi everyone,

I would love to hear your feedback on my candidacy and school choices.

MCAT: 520 (130/130/128/132)

cGPA: 3.92

sGPA: 3.95

Grad GPA: 3.93
.

I think that you were aiming too low. I suggest:


Harvard

Wash U

Yale

Stanford

U Chicago

U Penn

U VA
U MI
U AZ
U Colorado
U VM
U WI
Ohio State

Jefferson
U IA
UCSF

UCLA,
U Cincy
Miami
Albert Einstein
Tulane
Emory
BU
USC/Keck
JHU
Mayo
Pitt
Northwestern
NYU
Vanderbilt
Columbia
Sinai
Cornell
Duke
Case
Hofstra

 

[Pembo23]

Coming from Goro, that is high praise. Since I am a reapplicant, I wanted to make sure to have a broad spectrum of schools to apply to. Any recommendations for change?

 

[Goro]

Did you contact the schools that rejected you for feedback? Always best to add more service to others less fortunate than yourself.

 

[Pembo23]

Did you contact the schools that rejected you for feedback? Always best to add more service to others less fortunate than yourself.

As part of my MPH degree, I worked with two community organizations in St. Louis to enhance their programs. One targets summer food insecurity among children on the free or reduced-price school meal program and the other adolescent suicide. Would this qualify?

 

[Pembo23]

Did you contact the schools that rejected you for feedback? Always best to add more service to others less fortunate than yourself.

Also, I did not contact the schools I was waitlisted at. I applied at the end of my junior year of college, which was 3 years ago. I wasn't quite as mature then as I am now.

 

[Goro]

SLU likes service, so worth applying to them

As part of my MPH degree, I worked with two community organizations in St. Louis to enhance their programs. One targets summer food insecurity among children on the free or reduced-price school meal program and the other adolescent suicide. Would this qualify?

 

[Pembo23]

I really appreciate the feedback @Goro . What schools do you think I should remove from my list?

 

[Goro]

I really appreciate the feedback @Goro . What schools do you think I should remove from my list?

That's up to you.