Hi everyone! I just graduated and am taking a gap year doing full time research as well as volunteering, and I was planning on applying this cycle. I would really love some help on a school list, or even if I should take another gap year to get more volunteering hours and try for t20's?
Any advice at all would be great! Thank you so much!!
- Cumulative GPA - 4.0
- Science GPA - 4.0
- MCAT score and breakdown - 516 (128/128/130/130)
- AZ
- Asian
- Research experience and productivity - 2,500 hours in two different labs, 5 poster presentations (regional and national), 2 poster presentation awards
- Shadowing experience: 50 hours- orthopedic surgeon, breast cancer oncologist, geneticist
- Clinical volunteering: ~220 over two years - volunteering in a medical clinic assisting the homeless
- Non-clinical volunteering - 250+ over two years- support group counselor, crisis text line counselor,
- Other extracurricular activities - Avid dancer and artist- performed for over 400 people, and ended up painting a mural in my town and volunteered with the organization that helped me put it up. I also started turning publications into comics and cartoons in an attempt to translate the work I was doing in lab, or the work I was reading about into terms that might be better understood by the public- the only artist is me, so I haven't be able to do as much as I'd like, but it's something that I have spent a significant amount of time on.
- Relevant honors or awards - Merit Scholarship from university, Goldwater nominee, entrepreneurship scholarship, others..
- Leadership/ Teaching- Speech and Debate Coach for high school students (1 year, 200 hours- essentially founded the "speech" team), Molecular Biology TA (80 hours)
| University of Arizona |
| University of Maryland |
| Emory |
| Penn Sate |
| Ohio State |
| University of Colorado |
| UCSF |
| University of Michigan - top choice |
| Duke |
| Mount Sinai |
| Northwestern |
| Oakland Beaumont |
| Western Michigan U Cincinnati Albert Einstein |
Any advice at all would be great! Thank you so much!!