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5th year at a Canadian University.
Science GPA is 2.75
Non-science GPA is 3.3
Cumulative GPA is 2.95
I'm a molecular biology major at a Canadian University with a psychology minor.
My MCAT score is 32 (11 PS/ 10 VR/ 11 BS)
Extracurriculars include two hospital internships.; one in which I worked at a children's hospital assisting two nephrologists with a study on hypertension in obese children, another where I assisted an oncologist with creating a testicular Cancer database. These all took place over the summer months and so never lasted longer than 16 weeks.
Lots of club membership in school, I'm the exec of a club called the rare genomics institute which strives to raise money for families of children with rare genetic disorders so that their DNA can be sequenced to assist in diagnosis.
I'd say my EC's are about average.
In my personal statement for my application I discussed my specialty of intersts which is psychiatry (note the psychology minor). Not sure how much of an impact that makes in your personal statement though. There was no where else on the primary application to list a desired specialty, I've yet to receive any secondaries though, I've only submitted my primary last week.
3 Letters of Recommendation (yet to be submitted of course). 2 from professors and 1 from a doctor I worked with who is an MD.
No immediate family in medicine either as MDs or DOs.
My first year and a half at school was very rough. Grades were horrendous which explains my low GPA. I've repeated some classes and done much better. My more recent grades from the past two years are higher. I still have two physics courses that I'm doing this semester and next semester and so I don't have the grades for them back yet. I took them in my first year and got a D and an F. This time around I intend on getting much higher grades.
I'm a permanent resident of the United States (my parents both live and work in California and have done so for the past 6 years) and I applied to some of the easier DO schools to get into. 14 schools in total:
All schools are Osteopathic D.O schools:
Science GPA is 2.75
Non-science GPA is 3.3
Cumulative GPA is 2.95
I'm a molecular biology major at a Canadian University with a psychology minor.
My MCAT score is 32 (11 PS/ 10 VR/ 11 BS)
Extracurriculars include two hospital internships.; one in which I worked at a children's hospital assisting two nephrologists with a study on hypertension in obese children, another where I assisted an oncologist with creating a testicular Cancer database. These all took place over the summer months and so never lasted longer than 16 weeks.
Lots of club membership in school, I'm the exec of a club called the rare genomics institute which strives to raise money for families of children with rare genetic disorders so that their DNA can be sequenced to assist in diagnosis.
I'd say my EC's are about average.
In my personal statement for my application I discussed my specialty of intersts which is psychiatry (note the psychology minor). Not sure how much of an impact that makes in your personal statement though. There was no where else on the primary application to list a desired specialty, I've yet to receive any secondaries though, I've only submitted my primary last week.
3 Letters of Recommendation (yet to be submitted of course). 2 from professors and 1 from a doctor I worked with who is an MD.
No immediate family in medicine either as MDs or DOs.
My first year and a half at school was very rough. Grades were horrendous which explains my low GPA. I've repeated some classes and done much better. My more recent grades from the past two years are higher. I still have two physics courses that I'm doing this semester and next semester and so I don't have the grades for them back yet. I took them in my first year and got a D and an F. This time around I intend on getting much higher grades.
I'm a permanent resident of the United States (my parents both live and work in California and have done so for the past 6 years) and I applied to some of the easier DO schools to get into. 14 schools in total:
All schools are Osteopathic D.O schools:
- Touro - California
- Philadelphia
- Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences
- Lake Erie (Pennsylvania)
- Lake Erie (Florida)
- AT Still Arizona
- Edward Via South Carolina campus
- Edward Via Virginia campus
- New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology
- University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine
- West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine (WVSOM)
- Des Moines University
- Lincoln Memorial College of Osteopathic medicine
- Alabama COM
