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Hello! This isn't a typical "chance me" post since I have not taken my MCAT, but I just wanted to get a feel for how I am progressing and some areas that I might need to pay attention to a little more. Just some context, I am a rising junior bio major/neuroscience minor and this upcoming fall I'll be studying abroad in Denmark (woo!!). I plan to take one gap year before med school, take the MCAT after studying the summer between junior and senior year, and will apply senior spring/summer.
COVID of course put a halt to any clinical things as well as shadowing, so I am really lacking in those areas and am trying to get a second clinical job this summer and do some shadowing.
GPA: 4.03 (just have to take biochem and then done with prerequisites!)
Interests: pediatrics, reproductive endocrinology, neonatology
Research: 400 hours of research and 2 independent research projects/papers conducted during my sophomore semesters. Genetics lab!
Volunteering: 28 hours volunteering w/low-income children while their families attend sessions on nutrition/financial well-being/parenting, 80 hrs on Crisis Text Line, 40 hours serving homeless populations in Washington, D.C. on a class service trip as well as in the rural town around my college.
Non-clinical: 100 hours as a teaching assistant for an intro bio course, member of pre-health professions club + attended virtual shadowing events, 300 hours as a behavioral health technician working with children who have autism, completed a 2-week primary care virtual seminar talking to various primary care professions
Clinical: None??? (behavioral health tech follows a "treatment plan" and I work very closely to the child, but doesn't seem clinical/medical enough?)
Shadowing: None??? (does sporadic virtual shadowing count?)
Hobbies/other fun things: campus tour guide, 63 hours as a student senator for my college class, member of hip hop dance team, small jewelry Etsy shop, spent last summer waitressing during COVID times
Hospital volunteering is just starting to open up again, so I have an interview coming up to be a summer volunteer to get some clinical hours. While abroad, I'll be taking a medical/human health course where we work in Danish hospitals and are exposed to different areas of medicine. Super excited for that.
Thanks for any input!
COVID of course put a halt to any clinical things as well as shadowing, so I am really lacking in those areas and am trying to get a second clinical job this summer and do some shadowing.
GPA: 4.03 (just have to take biochem and then done with prerequisites!)
Interests: pediatrics, reproductive endocrinology, neonatology
Research: 400 hours of research and 2 independent research projects/papers conducted during my sophomore semesters. Genetics lab!
Volunteering: 28 hours volunteering w/low-income children while their families attend sessions on nutrition/financial well-being/parenting, 80 hrs on Crisis Text Line, 40 hours serving homeless populations in Washington, D.C. on a class service trip as well as in the rural town around my college.
Non-clinical: 100 hours as a teaching assistant for an intro bio course, member of pre-health professions club + attended virtual shadowing events, 300 hours as a behavioral health technician working with children who have autism, completed a 2-week primary care virtual seminar talking to various primary care professions
Clinical: None??? (behavioral health tech follows a "treatment plan" and I work very closely to the child, but doesn't seem clinical/medical enough?)
Shadowing: None??? (does sporadic virtual shadowing count?)
Hobbies/other fun things: campus tour guide, 63 hours as a student senator for my college class, member of hip hop dance team, small jewelry Etsy shop, spent last summer waitressing during COVID times
Hospital volunteering is just starting to open up again, so I have an interview coming up to be a summer volunteer to get some clinical hours. While abroad, I'll be taking a medical/human health course where we work in Danish hospitals and are exposed to different areas of medicine. Super excited for that.
Thanks for any input!