Hi everyone,
I was wondering if someone could help me establish a list of schools to apply to? I am not looking to join the most prestigious school, all I want is to earn an MD and become a good physician. A combination of reaches and more reasonable schools would be great!
My info:
- 23 now and would be turning 25 the fall I matriculate (should I get in of course)
- Hispanic father, asian mother, born in TX, moved abroad at the age of 4 and came back to the US for college.
- After my freshman year, I took time off school to work (1.5 years) in order to fully fund my education. Held several job: landscaping, internship and finally a full time job as a Junior Trust Administrator. In order to pay my college's "bill", I had to focus on jobs that would provide me with money hence the nature of the jobs.
- Eventually came back to school where my cGPA was a ~2.8. Worked hard and got it up to a cGPA of 3.66 and graduated this May - this was pretty much a 4.0 every semester. My major is Economics with a minor in Chemistry. My sGPA is a 3.7 and my major GPA 3.87. My school is a small liberal arts school in the top 20.
-Parents still live abroad but I have paid NC taxes for the past 2 years, gotten NC plates and tags, pay insurance in the state of NC, voter registered and have not left NC for more than a month in the past 3 years. For all purposes, I will be considered an NC resident.
- ~300h of research in bioinformatics (cancer drug discovery, ribosome profiling and RNA-seq) up to this point, but will be continuing throughout the following year. Pretty independent in what I do, I'd spend ~13h/week working on it. Also had no prior background in computer science so learned everything I know on my own. Working with a PhD student and will hopefully publish with him (we would be the only two names on the paper, with of course a professor on it too).
- ~60h of volunteering in the OR at my school's affiliated hospital.
- ~60h of community service with soup kitchen
- Resident Advisor for freshman for 2 years
- MCAT preliminary scores:
CP: 82-97
CARS: 76-91
Bio/BC: 85-100
BSSP: 81-96
Total: 86-96
I know this is a lot of information and you might even require more to help. Please let me know if you need anything extra! Thanks for your help and support!!
I was wondering if someone could help me establish a list of schools to apply to? I am not looking to join the most prestigious school, all I want is to earn an MD and become a good physician. A combination of reaches and more reasonable schools would be great!
My info:
- 23 now and would be turning 25 the fall I matriculate (should I get in of course)
- Hispanic father, asian mother, born in TX, moved abroad at the age of 4 and came back to the US for college.
- After my freshman year, I took time off school to work (1.5 years) in order to fully fund my education. Held several job: landscaping, internship and finally a full time job as a Junior Trust Administrator. In order to pay my college's "bill", I had to focus on jobs that would provide me with money hence the nature of the jobs.
- Eventually came back to school where my cGPA was a ~2.8. Worked hard and got it up to a cGPA of 3.66 and graduated this May - this was pretty much a 4.0 every semester. My major is Economics with a minor in Chemistry. My sGPA is a 3.7 and my major GPA 3.87. My school is a small liberal arts school in the top 20.
-Parents still live abroad but I have paid NC taxes for the past 2 years, gotten NC plates and tags, pay insurance in the state of NC, voter registered and have not left NC for more than a month in the past 3 years. For all purposes, I will be considered an NC resident.
- ~300h of research in bioinformatics (cancer drug discovery, ribosome profiling and RNA-seq) up to this point, but will be continuing throughout the following year. Pretty independent in what I do, I'd spend ~13h/week working on it. Also had no prior background in computer science so learned everything I know on my own. Working with a PhD student and will hopefully publish with him (we would be the only two names on the paper, with of course a professor on it too).
- ~60h of volunteering in the OR at my school's affiliated hospital.
- ~60h of community service with soup kitchen
- Resident Advisor for freshman for 2 years
- MCAT preliminary scores:
CP: 82-97
CARS: 76-91
Bio/BC: 85-100
BSSP: 81-96
Total: 86-96
I know this is a lot of information and you might even require more to help. Please let me know if you need anything extra! Thanks for your help and support!!
