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Hi Guys,
I posted in this thread a while ago, but I was wondering if you guys wouldn't mind commenting on my school list.
I am a CA resident, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013 with a 3.37 gpa; including cc math I took in hs and some courses I have taken in the past two years at UCSD (where I work), my gpa bumped up a little.
I'm classifying myself as disadvantaged as well (due to low-income single parent/food stamps/medicaid etc. as a child - I had health care under my father's insurance, but my mother never did which has a big impact on my choice of medicine)
Extracurriculars:
Been doing research for 7 years -
- in high school for two summers at Salk institute working in Neurobiology with schizophrenia - have one 2nd author paper (in Nature)
- at Berkeley working in Immunology/ was also a lab helper (work/study)
- I'm currently a tech at UCSD doing RNA biology/sequencing tech stuff - no pubs yet but a few are soon to be submitted (sadly not til after i'll submit primary)
Clinical - volunteering in a hospital (basically working as a CNA) changing departments every 3 months. - 150 hrs
- volunteer in a small free clinic, currently around 40 hours, will start shadowing one of the doctors as well soon, continuing with this through next year
Leadership:
- was a dance assistant teacher on the Ballroom team
- Music Manager of my Jewish a cappella group for 1 year
- was on the executive board for my sorority (Risk management - planned health workshops for the chapter and made sure there were safety measures in place during high risk events)
- was on the board of a club called "Meal points for the Homeless" that aimed to collect excess food from students' meal plans to donate to homeless shelters
- was a leadership intern at Hillel designed to create programs that would serve a larger number of people. Through this, I organized a very successful Blood drive to take place in the Hillel building.
Recommendations - I will have very strong recommendations from 3 research profs, one from a neurochem course I took (but i don't know him that well), one from a medical anthropology professor, and one from the physician who's clinic I volunteer at (who I will also be shadowing)
My school list - i'd like to narrow it down some more because its so pricey, but I have my heart set on new york schools so its hard to let go of those even though they're a huge long shot.
Thank you so much for your input!!!
Mehary Medical College
Tulane University School of Medicine
Albany Medical College
Eastern Virginia
UC Davis
wake forest
NY Medical College
Drexel U
Loyola University Chicago Stritch
Chicago Medical School Rosalind Franklin
SUNY downstate
UCLA
Hofstra North Shore
Georgetown
Tufts Univ
Rush Univ (chicago)
Jefferson Med college (pa)
BU
Stony Brook
UCSD
Case Western
Einstein
UCSF
Columbia
Mt Sinai
NYU
Rochester
I posted in this thread a while ago, but I was wondering if you guys wouldn't mind commenting on my school list.
I am a CA resident, and graduated from UC Berkeley in 2013 with a 3.37 gpa; including cc math I took in hs and some courses I have taken in the past two years at UCSD (where I work), my gpa bumped up a little.
I'm classifying myself as disadvantaged as well (due to low-income single parent/food stamps/medicaid etc. as a child - I had health care under my father's insurance, but my mother never did which has a big impact on my choice of medicine)
Extracurriculars:
Been doing research for 7 years -
- in high school for two summers at Salk institute working in Neurobiology with schizophrenia - have one 2nd author paper (in Nature)
- at Berkeley working in Immunology/ was also a lab helper (work/study)
- I'm currently a tech at UCSD doing RNA biology/sequencing tech stuff - no pubs yet but a few are soon to be submitted (sadly not til after i'll submit primary)
Clinical - volunteering in a hospital (basically working as a CNA) changing departments every 3 months. - 150 hrs
- volunteer in a small free clinic, currently around 40 hours, will start shadowing one of the doctors as well soon, continuing with this through next year
Leadership:
- was a dance assistant teacher on the Ballroom team
- Music Manager of my Jewish a cappella group for 1 year
- was on the executive board for my sorority (Risk management - planned health workshops for the chapter and made sure there were safety measures in place during high risk events)
- was on the board of a club called "Meal points for the Homeless" that aimed to collect excess food from students' meal plans to donate to homeless shelters
- was a leadership intern at Hillel designed to create programs that would serve a larger number of people. Through this, I organized a very successful Blood drive to take place in the Hillel building.
Recommendations - I will have very strong recommendations from 3 research profs, one from a neurochem course I took (but i don't know him that well), one from a medical anthropology professor, and one from the physician who's clinic I volunteer at (who I will also be shadowing)
My school list - i'd like to narrow it down some more because its so pricey, but I have my heart set on new york schools so its hard to let go of those even though they're a huge long shot.
Thank you so much for your input!!!
Mehary Medical College
Tulane University School of Medicine
Albany Medical College
Eastern Virginia
UC Davis
wake forest
NY Medical College
Drexel U
Loyola University Chicago Stritch
Chicago Medical School Rosalind Franklin
SUNY downstate
UCLA
Hofstra North Shore
Georgetown
Tufts Univ
Rush Univ (chicago)
Jefferson Med college (pa)
BU
Stony Brook
UCSD
Case Western
Einstein
UCSF
Columbia
Mt Sinai
NYU
Rochester