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Hi everyone,
This is my first time posting on SDN after lurking for many years for resources. As indicated in the title, I will be a 3rd time reapplicant in 2018. I applied once 3 years ago and the second time last year. First time I received 1 interview and the second time I had 3.
I am an ORM male and am SES disadvantaged (E01). The money issue forced me to live at home for college and commute 3 hours total each day for college (NYC private school). I do not plan on checking any disadvantage status and have not done so for the past two cycles since education wise, I was not disadvantaged.
First cycle:
MCAT:32-35 (2014) GPA:~3.65-3.75 sGPA: 3.9-4.0
Volunteer: Helped out at the local hospital near my home. Nothing noteworthy, mostly just helping the nurses and doctors out. Volunteers are restricted from doing a lot of things. I did help out with translating (non-medical) things. About 400-500 hours.
Shadowing: None
Research: None
Apps complete ~mid August
SUNY Downstate (interview)
Cornell
Mount Sinai
Columbia
SUNY Upstate
NYU
Albany
Stony Brook
Hofstra
Brown
Einstein
One or two additional schools I don't remember.
First cycle, I think I lacked the maturity and the experience (especially research) in order to secure an acceptance. It took a while to land a paid research position and it might have been a bit too late for my second cycle. Before the paid research position, I had to work in my parents' mom-and-pop store in order to support myself.
Second cycle:
MCAT: 518 (131, 126, 132, 129) GPA:3.7 sGPA: 3.9-4.0
Volunteer: Nothing new before submitting application. Tutoring underserved HS students mid cycle. ~60 hours.
Shadowing: ~100-200
Research: Translational research started after submitting application (July 2016). Full time job
App completed: Early August (was starting my new job so I didn't have a lot of time)
Personal statement wasn't changed too much since I did not have any significant experience between the two cycles.
Downstate
Cornell
Mount Sinai
Columbia
Upstate (interview)
NYU
Albany
Stony
Hofstra (interview)
Brown
Drexel (interview)
Penn State
UPenn
NYMC
Tufts
Einstein
Yale
Harvard
Some other top schools as a crapshoot since I was hoping for this to be the last cycle.
I plan on waiting the current cycle out and applying next year. By this time next year, I will have additional non-clinical volunteer experience and extensive research experience (~5000+).
I currently work as a research tech doing translational research at one of the top schools in Manhattan (don't want to specify). From my research experience, I currently have one methods publication first author (2017). Expecting two research publications as middle authors by the end of this year. One small project which will probably be co-first author before application opens. Working on one big project which will likely be first author but will not likely be completed before the application cycle or even by the end of it.
For volunteering, I work at a senior center once a week serving lunch to the elderly. With the issue of income and the MCAT off my mind, it gives me the opportunity to give back to the community. I also plan on continuing to tutor underserved high school students once high school is back in session.
I plan on re-writing my personal statement from scratch with these new experiences. I also plan on getting new LORs from people at work. Perhaps one of my LORs sunk my application.
Looking for suggestions on how I can further improve my 3rd and final app cycle. I also hope someone can give me a good list of schools to look into so I can pre-write my secondaries.
This is my first time posting on SDN after lurking for many years for resources. As indicated in the title, I will be a 3rd time reapplicant in 2018. I applied once 3 years ago and the second time last year. First time I received 1 interview and the second time I had 3.
I am an ORM male and am SES disadvantaged (E01). The money issue forced me to live at home for college and commute 3 hours total each day for college (NYC private school). I do not plan on checking any disadvantage status and have not done so for the past two cycles since education wise, I was not disadvantaged.
First cycle:
MCAT:32-35 (2014) GPA:~3.65-3.75 sGPA: 3.9-4.0
Volunteer: Helped out at the local hospital near my home. Nothing noteworthy, mostly just helping the nurses and doctors out. Volunteers are restricted from doing a lot of things. I did help out with translating (non-medical) things. About 400-500 hours.
Shadowing: None
Research: None
Apps complete ~mid August
SUNY Downstate (interview)
Cornell
Mount Sinai
Columbia
SUNY Upstate
NYU
Albany
Stony Brook
Hofstra
Brown
Einstein
One or two additional schools I don't remember.
First cycle, I think I lacked the maturity and the experience (especially research) in order to secure an acceptance. It took a while to land a paid research position and it might have been a bit too late for my second cycle. Before the paid research position, I had to work in my parents' mom-and-pop store in order to support myself.
Second cycle:
MCAT: 518 (131, 126, 132, 129) GPA:3.7 sGPA: 3.9-4.0
Volunteer: Nothing new before submitting application. Tutoring underserved HS students mid cycle. ~60 hours.
Shadowing: ~100-200
Research: Translational research started after submitting application (July 2016). Full time job
App completed: Early August (was starting my new job so I didn't have a lot of time)
Personal statement wasn't changed too much since I did not have any significant experience between the two cycles.
Downstate
Cornell
Mount Sinai
Columbia
Upstate (interview)
NYU
Albany
Stony
Hofstra (interview)
Brown
Drexel (interview)
Penn State
UPenn
NYMC
Tufts
Einstein
Yale
Harvard
Some other top schools as a crapshoot since I was hoping for this to be the last cycle.
I plan on waiting the current cycle out and applying next year. By this time next year, I will have additional non-clinical volunteer experience and extensive research experience (~5000+).
I currently work as a research tech doing translational research at one of the top schools in Manhattan (don't want to specify). From my research experience, I currently have one methods publication first author (2017). Expecting two research publications as middle authors by the end of this year. One small project which will probably be co-first author before application opens. Working on one big project which will likely be first author but will not likely be completed before the application cycle or even by the end of it.
For volunteering, I work at a senior center once a week serving lunch to the elderly. With the issue of income and the MCAT off my mind, it gives me the opportunity to give back to the community. I also plan on continuing to tutor underserved high school students once high school is back in session.
I plan on re-writing my personal statement from scratch with these new experiences. I also plan on getting new LORs from people at work. Perhaps one of my LORs sunk my application.
Looking for suggestions on how I can further improve my 3rd and final app cycle. I also hope someone can give me a good list of schools to look into so I can pre-write my secondaries.
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