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UPDATE: MCAT score is back! 36 with a relatively even breakdown. I was doing a bit better on practice exams, but oh well. I suppose a 36 won't close too many doors.
Stats:
- Junior, undergraduate, "difficult" science major, non URM
- cGPA ~3.9, sGPA ~3.85 (no upward/downward trend).
- MCAT 36
- IL resident
LORs:
I think I will receive very good LORs.
Most relevant EC's:
- 15-30 hrs/week of basic science research since freshman year fall semester (40+ hours/week in the summer). 3 publications with 1 more submitted (2 second author and 1 third so far), 1 first author abstract/poster at international conference, 2-3 other random poster presentations, 4 or 5 ish more abstracts (mostly second or third author).
- 3 hrs/week clinical volunteering, lots of patient contact
- co-instructor of university course (~30-40 students)
- extensive teaching and science outreach, including: self-designed and taught science curriculum to academically disadvantaged students, presentations on science teaching at large teacher conventions
- 30 hours shadowing (varied)
Other EC's:
- 2 hrs/week of tutoring, 1 year total
- 3 hrs/week volunteer cook
- 1.5 hrs/week science club leader at middle school (attendance varied widely from 10 - 40 students). Also manager (but not leader) of 3-5 more science clubs at schools in the area
- cooking club for 1 year, held board position
- definitely am forgetting some things
Current school list: One of my main concerns apart from the usual (academics, etc.) is location. I would prefer not to be somewhere warm like Cali or Florida because I'd be miserable. Yes that's weird. Another one is cost of attendance/possibility of getting $. My list is mostly IL/WI/MN area, with some east coast.
Reach:
- U of Chicago
- Northwestern
- Mayo
- U Mich
- U Penn
- Yale
- Columbia
- Vanderbilt
- Pitt
- Harvard
- University of Washington
- UCSD
- Cornell
- NYU
- Case Western
- Emory
Within range:
- Rosalind Franklin
- UW-Madison
- UIC
- University of Minnesota (iffy on this one.. % OOS doesn't look terribly promising)
- Indiana
- Ohio State
- Cincinnati
I think my list might be really top heavy? Should I narrow it down/remove some, add a few, any recommendations?
Thanks in advance!
Stats:
- Junior, undergraduate, "difficult" science major, non URM
- cGPA ~3.9, sGPA ~3.85 (no upward/downward trend).
- MCAT 36
- IL resident
LORs:
I think I will receive very good LORs.
Most relevant EC's:
- 15-30 hrs/week of basic science research since freshman year fall semester (40+ hours/week in the summer). 3 publications with 1 more submitted (2 second author and 1 third so far), 1 first author abstract/poster at international conference, 2-3 other random poster presentations, 4 or 5 ish more abstracts (mostly second or third author).
- 3 hrs/week clinical volunteering, lots of patient contact
- co-instructor of university course (~30-40 students)
- extensive teaching and science outreach, including: self-designed and taught science curriculum to academically disadvantaged students, presentations on science teaching at large teacher conventions
- 30 hours shadowing (varied)
Other EC's:
- 2 hrs/week of tutoring, 1 year total
- 3 hrs/week volunteer cook
- 1.5 hrs/week science club leader at middle school (attendance varied widely from 10 - 40 students). Also manager (but not leader) of 3-5 more science clubs at schools in the area
- cooking club for 1 year, held board position
- definitely am forgetting some things
Current school list: One of my main concerns apart from the usual (academics, etc.) is location. I would prefer not to be somewhere warm like Cali or Florida because I'd be miserable. Yes that's weird. Another one is cost of attendance/possibility of getting $. My list is mostly IL/WI/MN area, with some east coast.
Reach:
- U of Chicago
- Northwestern
- Mayo
- U Mich
- U Penn
- Yale
- Columbia
- Vanderbilt
- Pitt
- Harvard
- University of Washington
- UCSD
- Cornell
- NYU
- Case Western
- Emory
Within range:
- Rosalind Franklin
- UW-Madison
- UIC
- University of Minnesota (iffy on this one.. % OOS doesn't look terribly promising)
- Indiana
- Ohio State
- Cincinnati
I think my list might be really top heavy? Should I narrow it down/remove some, add a few, any recommendations?
Thanks in advance!
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